Our Desire To Believe in A Metaphor was uploaded to Flickr

Kinzie St Bridge aka Chicago & Northwestern Railway Bridge

Located just north of the Loop, the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Bridge is an early example of an overhead counterweight bascule bridge based on the patents of Joseph Baermann Strauss. Strauss was a prominent engineer who later achieved fame as the designer of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. The Chicago & Northwestern Railway Bridge was reported to be the world’s longest and heaviest bridge of its type at the time of its completion. The single-leaf bridge is made from heavily-bolted steel girders and plates whose superstructure consists of a fixed tower and an overhead counterweight comprised of concrete, reinforced with a steel skeleton. The leaf’s axis of rotation, the main trunnion, is located about halfway up the tower and power is provided by a pinion which engages a rack on the operating strut to raise and lower the leaf. Today, the bridge is no longer in service, due to the rerouting of passenger traffic and dwindling freight traffic. It is locked in a raised position creating a massive steel silhouette familiar to residents of the Near North side and commuters on Brown Line and Metra trains.

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I took Our Desire To Believe in A Metaphor on April 25, 2014 at 01:22PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on January 15, 2017 at 12:27PM

Others Will Go On was uploaded to Flickr

Halsted and Chicago Ave. Faux-infrared effect via Photoshop

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I took Others Will Go On on April 25, 2014 at 12:48PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 09, 2016 at 10:40AM

You Wanted To Disappear was uploaded to Flickr

Foggy afternoon, Chicago

(The sculpture is called Progress Lighting the Way for Commerce)

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I took You Wanted To Disappear on September 12, 2009 at 05:14AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on February 19, 2016 at 09:27AM

Would You Believe was uploaded to Flickr

1000 N Morgan, Fulton Market, West Loop

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I took Would You Believe on July 19, 2015 at 11:56AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on July 24, 2015 at 08:14PM

Reveal A Thing You’ve Forgotten was uploaded to Flickr

North Avenue Bridge over the Chicago River

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I took Reveal A Thing You’ve Forgotten on April 25, 2014 at 07:00PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on June 15, 2015 at 06:39PM

You Are Strangers and Sojourners was uploaded to Flickr

sun setting over the West Loop

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I took You Are Strangers and Sojourners on August 03, 2014 at 08:16PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 09, 2014 at 07:36PM

An Atheist To Your Religion Too was uploaded to Flickr

This looked like an obelisk to me, which reminded me of religion.

Ricky Gervais said it best:
The dictionary definition of God is “a supernatural creator and overseer of the universe.” Included in this definition are all deities, goddesses and supernatural beings. Since the beginning of recorded history, which is defined by the invention of writing by the Sumerians around 6,000 years ago, historians have cataloged over 3700 supernatural beings, of which 2870 can be considered deities.

So next time someone tells me they believe in God, I’ll say “Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…” If they say “Just God. I only believe in the one God,” I’ll point out that they are nearly as atheistic as me. I don’t believe in 2,870 gods, and they don’t believe in 2,869.

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I took An Atheist To Your Religion Too on September 08, 2012 at 01:51PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 09, 2014 at 03:39PM

One Eye Upon the Heavens was uploaded to Flickr

Downtown Toronto somewhere

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I took One Eye Upon the Heavens on September 09, 2013 at 11:19AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 01, 2014 at 03:29PM

Come On And Dance was uploaded to Flickr

West Loop, late afternoon

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I took Come On And Dance on May 06, 2014 at 08:39PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on May 07, 2014 at 05:47PM

You Did Not Count the Time was uploaded to Flickr

Toned in Photoshop with a red filter.

As seen from inside DIRTT (behind a glass window) during the most recent Chicago Architecture Tour Open House (2013)

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I took You Did Not Count the Time on October 20, 2013 at 03:00PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on January 06, 2014 at 03:52PM