Archive for the ‘Architecture’ Category

Chicago in B+W Part II

November 27, 2009

Took a trip downtown with the DIP crew again, this time Jeremy and Josh came along too, but I missed them because I missed my train and didn’t arrive till later in the afternoon. And I don’t blame them for leaving early — it was pretty cold, wet, and miserable downtown, so I left after a few hours as well.

No hood internet this time. Tripods are awesome.

No Sleep Till Brooklyn

August 20, 2009

Thursday Afternoon: Part 7 of a 13-part series of photos documenting my trip to New York:

  • Took the PATH from Jersey City to WTC, and the Subway from WTC to Brooklyn
  • Walked around Brooklyn, ate at a diner (finally, a pretty good one!). They had a pickle platter and I ordered a Gyro.
  • Went to DUMBO (Down Under Manhattan Bridge Overpass), walked to the Courthouse, then took the Subway to Prospect Park
  • Prospect Park’s naming conventions for different parts of the park are pretty awesome. It was like walking through a Tolkien book
  • The houses in Brooklyn look like they’re from the Cosby Show
  • I’ve had that Beastie Boys song stuck in my head all week.

White Hall

April 23, 2009

Took a trip to one of Face’s favorite spots, Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, IL with him, Brad, Jeremy, Wesley, and Ramzi. I’ve seen photos on his and other co-workers’ blogs, but after today I reaffirmed the notion that you can’t really get a true feel for a place until you’ve experienced it for yourself. And hoh-boy is it amazing.

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ALOT more after the jump…

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Cleaners

April 1, 2009

Dave asked me to take a few photos of his parents’ cleaners for a website they’re making for the business.

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Unfortunately we chose the gloomiest day of the week to shoot this.

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I need to work more on detail shots and capturing indoor spaces.

On Wednesday I went downtown with my friends Brad and Ned from the DI. I got there about an hour earlier than they did and shot mostly street photography before they got in. After they arrived, we walked around and I shifted a little more into architecture mode. We ate at the Billy Goat Tavern (not worth the forced $8 meal), walked 3 miles to Calumet Photo, tried to get on the 6 o’clock news, and played with flash and long exposures at Millenium Park.

Here are some of the photos I took. A lot of the photos I took looked cool in color, but it was pretty overcast all afternoon so I decided to commit to B+W. I’ll put my favorite color version photos up later.

I decided to play around with soundslides for the first time for this slideshow. Since I didn’t really have any audio from the trip, I used some mash-ups from The Hood Internet vs. Chicago (props to YS for the rec). The music doesn’t really match the photos, but its fun.