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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

this looks like a sad story

I’ve tried since June 25, 2018, to develop a scenario where a dozen red roses in the trash at a subway station could have been from a happy event. But no matter how I look at it, I can only see a sad story.

Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.25.2018

Let there be…lamps

Four years after I made this shot, my memory of the exact sequence of events is a little less than clear. However, I am making an educated guess that this was what happened:

  1. We drove through town.
  2. I saw this window display.
  3. Two blocks later, I said to the Patient Spouse, “You’ll need to turn around.”

And you know the rest…

Campo, Colorado
photographed 8.30.2016