It All Spoke Together – Triptych

I took this photo in the Cook County Forest Preserve somewhere in 2015, and processed it in my digital darkroom on October 22nd, 2021.

I like some aspect of all three versions, and instead of discarding 2 of the three, decided to publish all three as a sort of triptych. If and when I print them, I’d like to make a 3d triangle sculpture, and hang it on a thread so it can rotate.

These are the thumbnails, but the image is better when bigger, imo.1

It All Spoke Together - original

The original version of the photograph. I especially like the golden reflections of tree trunks in the pond. Also the faint reds of the leaves at the bottom right.

It All Spoke Together - tinted

The tinted version speaks a different emotional language, achieved by using cross-processing2 of Ektar film. Maybe I’d use this as my LP album cover, when I release that sometime in the future.

It All Spoke Together - mono

The black and white version, using Fuji Neopan 16003 is more stark, yet beautiful because of it. There aren’t quite enough visual clues to ascertain exactly what this is a photo of until the viewer studies it for a moment.

  • 35.0 mm f/1.8
  • ƒ/3.5
  • shutter speed 1/50
  • ISO 100
Footnotes:
  1. Click it to see a slightly larger version at Flickr []
  2. in emulation []
  3. in emulation, of course []

I Heard You Had A Plan was uploaded to Flickr

Forest, Frostpocket

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I took I Heard You Had A Plan on September 03, 2013 at 05:10PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on November 05, 2015 at 02:26PM

Climbed On The High Lonely Hill was uploaded to Flickr

Cook County Forest Preserve somewhere. I guess I need to clean the dust off of my sensor and lens…

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I took Climbed On The High Lonely Hill on April 01, 2015 at 07:30AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on May 15, 2015 at 04:48PM

Too Intrinsic For Renown was uploaded to Flickr

Frostpocket Lane

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I took Too Intrinsic For Renown on September 13, 2014 at 10:34AM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on October 09, 2014 at 01:25PM

Magic Filled The Air was uploaded to Flickr

Glenview Forest Preserve

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I took Magic Filled The Air on June 04, 2014 at 12:43PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on June 04, 2014 at 05:44PM

Prelude Number 8533 was uploaded to Flickr

North Park Village Nature Center, N Pulaski Rd.

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The Nature Center is often described as a hidden gem in the city. But this site was well known to generations before us, and clues to how people used the land can be found here. The wild onion and wild leek growing in wet woods here inspired American Indians to name this area the “land of the stinking onion” which was translated to “Chicago” by European settlers. In the early 1800s, farmers drained the wet areas to plant crops. And in the late 1800s, a tree nursery was established under the ownership of Norwegian immigrant Pehr Petersen. The very successful Mr. Peterson provided all the trees and shrubs for the World’s Fair in 1893, most of the trees in Lincoln Park and up to seven-eighths of all the trees planted in Chicago’s parkways and boulevards by 1910.

In 1911, Chicago acquired the land from Peterson’s family and used 158 acres to create the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium. This buffer of nature was used to prevent the disease from spreading, and to heal the patients admitted here. Portions of the land were changed into paths, gardens for growing food, fields to play and a pond for recreation. The building that would become the Nature Center was originally the Sanitarium’s dispensary, where certain patients could come to get their medications. Patients were here into the 1970s when the Sanitarium was closed.

In the 1980s, plans were to raze the land and construct strip malls and condominiums. However, community activists rallied against these plans, ushering in the preservation of North Park Village. In 1989, an easement was enacted to prohibit any development of this property and to define how it was to be maintained as a natural area for 75 years. Efforts are being made by today’s community activists to extend this protection into perpetuity.

Now, in a short stroll, visitors can experience a forest, a prairie, wetland and oak savanna. And in the 1980s, a sweet new tradition was begun: the Maple Syrup Festival, which taps into the very trees that Pehr Peterson planted more than a century ago. Eventually, programming and visits to the Nature Center grew with additional events such as the Harvest Festival, Winter Solstice, and City Wilds Fest.

On April 1, 2004 the Nature Center became part of the Chicago Park District. Whether you seek serenity, a place to spot a rare bird, or a place to volunteer your time and talent, visit this oasis of nature in the city – this hidden gem.

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I took Prelude Number 8533 on November 10, 2013 at 03:34PM

and processed it in my digital darkroom on December 26, 2013 at 11:19PM