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Giant

Those are some big damn feet, stomping all over downtown Chicago like that. It seems an extremely dangerous situation has developed. Please remain observant and take appropriate precautions.

Chicago
photographed 8.9.2014

(from the Before Times)

It’s hard to remember how easy it used to be to just…go places and do things. But here’s proof that we did do that once.

Cloud Gate
Chicago
photographed 8.26.2019

Metropolitan

Maybe you’ll agree that this needed to be in color because of the tension between the warm, yellow light on the right side and the blue-hour light coming in the window on the left.

Metropolitan Barber Shop
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.24.2018

Wading

A year ago, things were normal. I didn’t know it; I just thought things were…things. And I was traveling for work. And people were playing in the water. And I was making photos.

You know, normal.

Crown Fountain
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 8.27.2019

Typical Situation

Sometimes you just have to do it – the cliched shot is right there, waiting on you to make it. This was, of course, one of those times.

(PS – I used DxO’s Perspective Efex plug-in to get those verticals all lined up – it worked great and you should try it, if you’ve got verticals that aren’t, you know, vertical.)

from the Wells Street Bridge
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.28.2018