three photos merged. West Loop.
best viewed larger:
Embiggen
from May of this year on my roof
Tag: Photography
Idle June morning
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Kodot Verichrome
Flash: Off
Embiggening is just a click away
As I sometimes end up doing, spent a couple hours wandering around in Rogers Park, with camera, and in the case of this photo, cell phone camera too.
One of the perks of being self-employed, sometimes playing hooky is ok.
Everybody’s Got Something To Smile About
Bad photo of my new didgeridoo
Sleep apnea begone!
Throat Exercises Relieve Sleep Apnea
Seemingly operated on the same sort of principle as a shofar1, but more difficult to get a good solid sound, probably because the mouth opening is wider. Still pretty fun, though tiring.
Footnotes:Memorial Day 2010
In memory of those who made the supreme sacrifice in defense of their country.
Developed in SwankoLab for iPhone using Jerry’s Developer and Larry’s
Developer
There lies a dream as soft as the water
Chicago River at night
[apologies to TVZ for nicking words from his tune, The Catfish Song]
Click here for the Embiggening
At Wolf Point, well, across the street from Wolf Point
More Haphazard Advice
Three Rusty Heads Are Better Than None
Madison, WI. Artist name, Jill Pfeiffer.
from 2007
Rainbow in the Dark
West Loop
(Merge in HD function in CS5)
She Wandered Alone
West Fulton
she arrived
shortly
after the end
of the world
she
wandered
alone
conversing
only with
specters,
demons and
shadows
Through the Cracks Now Available
If you are in the market for a crime novel, one set in Chicago, no less, then why not pick up Babrara Fister’s new novel, Through The Cracks? Ms. Fister was kind enough to suggest my photograph be used as the basis of the cover, and David Baldeosingh Rotstein of St. Martin’s Publishing Group did so.1
Tunnel of Blues became…
“Through the Cracks” (Barbara Fister)
When Chicago private investigator Anni Koskinen takes on a new client, she finds herself working on an impossible case. After spending twenty years in prison, a black man convicted in a notorious rape case has had his sentence overturned. The victim wants to know who was really responsible for the crime that scarred her life. But even if Anni can find out who committed the brutal crime decades ago, a conviction will be impossible—unless the rapist has struck again.
The resourceful victim has uncovered evidence indicating that a serial rapist may still be at work, attacking women with ferocious anger. But as Anni digs deeper, the politically ambitious state’s attorney who prosecuted the original rape case insists that the conviction was solid. He believes there was no miscarriage of justice—other than that a violent felon has been released on a technicality.
As Anni’s cold case heats up, her friend Dugan, a CPD detective, is involved in a heater case of his own. An undocumented Mexican gang member has been arrested for the murder of a missing woman, and his uncertain fate has gripped the city and fueled anti-immigrant sentiment.
As both investigations unfold, the impact of racial prejudice radiates cracks through the criminal justice system, and it is through those cracks that Anni must try to glimpse the truth.
About the Author Barbara Fister lives in rural Minnesota, where she works as a librarian at a small liberal arts college. Please visit barbarafister.com.
(click to continue reading Amazon.com: Through the Cracks (9780312374921): Barbara Fister: Books.)
Buy a copy of Through the Cracks
- paying me a small, one-time fee, of course [↩]
Elijah’s cup
Context
don’t really remember *why* I took this photo, but do remember Bloomingdale’s threw me out for photographing inside their store
Jerkstore…
Johnny McKenna, Street Musician
pretty good busker, didn’t get his CD though, didn’t have time to cross over the median.
apparently featured in some form at Explore Chicago (the official tourism site for the City of Chicago), though for the life of me, I can’t find where. They must not give credit to the photographer correctly. Remind myself not to add anything else to this Flickr group.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/chicagoofficeoftourism/
Update: ah, found behind the Wall of Facebook. Still, I don’t think I’ll add any other photo to Explore Chicago until the photos are not restricted to viewing by Facebook users only.
Imperia Russian vodka
From St Petersberg since 1894, quartz filtered
Shot with my Hipstamatic for iPhone
Lens: John S
Film: Float
Flash: Off
The embiggening
Can’t claim I even like vodka very much, and yet….