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Sidewalks Sleek With Regrets and Recriminations was uploaded to Flickr

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I took Sidewalks Sleek With Regrets and Recriminations on November 04, 2018 at 06:30AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on December 09, 2018 at 10:02PM
Sick Of All This Repetition was uploaded to Flickr

For reference for those who haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing it during rush hour traffic:
www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2009/09/23/what-is-hubbards-c…
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I took Sick Of All This Repetition on March 16, 2015 at 07:53AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on December 01, 2018 at 03:49PM
Fades To A Memory was uploaded to Flickr

I debated whether to crop the upper right corner’s burst of sun, but decided to leave it in. Maybe I’ll crop it later…
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I took Fades To A Memory on October 20, 2017 at 04:43AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on October 20, 2017 at 02:43PM
Iron Cock Head was uploaded to Flickr

Toronto’s City Hall
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I took Iron Cock Head on September 09, 2013 at 06:07AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on March 10, 2017 at 05:28PM
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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http://webapps.cityofchicago.org/landmarksweb/web/landmarkdetails.htm?lanId=13091&counter=52
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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
Born Already Ruined was uploaded to Flickr

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I took Born Already Ruined on September 25, 2016 at 11:34AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on November 23, 2016 at 09:22AM
Spoke Together All In A Rush was uploaded to Flickr

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I took Spoke Together All In A Rush on March 29, 2013 at 06:12AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on October 06, 2016 at 10:13AM
Overlooked In Haste was uploaded to Flickr

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I took Overlooked In Haste on July 23, 2016 at 06:18AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on September 16, 2016 at 10:00AM
Things Go Back and Forth was uploaded to Flickr

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I took Things Go Back and Forth on May 21, 2013 at 11:58AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 24, 2016 at 11:38AM
M. Hohner Special 20 – Key of C was uploaded to Flickr

I had one for many years, but it got sat on and squished one drunken night (might even have been me, but probably not). I never got around to replacing it until today.
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I took M. Hohner Special 20 – Key of C on August 19, 2016 at 07:03AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 19, 2016 at 01:28PM
Free Soap was uploaded to Flickr

Broadway, Chicago
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I took Free Soap on December 31, 1996 at 06:00PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on August 16, 2016 at 09:02PM
Colleen and George, Castle Rock Trail was uploaded to Flickr

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I took Colleen and George, Castle Rock Trail on July 01, 2016 at 04:07AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on July 05, 2016 at 08:06PM
Evening Full of Cold Facts and Warm Grins was uploaded to Flickr

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I took Evening Full of Cold Facts and Warm Grins on April 17, 2013 at 03:04PM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on May 14, 2016 at 03:54PM
El Ray – Giant Olmec Head was uploaded to Flickr

In November 2008, LLILAS celebrated the arrival of a special work of art on campus. The Universidad Veracruzana, one of Mexico’s most prominent universities, presented the institute with a colossal Olmec head, a replica of the iconic sculpture known as San Lorenzo Monument 1, or El Rey.
The original, now housed in the Museo de Antropología in Xalapa, Veracruz, is considered a signature piece of pre-Columbian Olmec culture and a world-class art object that represents New World civilization as emblematically as the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacán or the ruins of Machu Picchu. One of seventeen colossal heads still in existence, San Lorenzo Monument 1 was found by noted archaeologist Matthew Stirling in the 1940s. His discoveries, and those of other archaeologists in Mexico during this time, unearthed for the world the culture of the Olmec, an ancient civilization that flourished in southern Mexico 1500-400 BCE and significantly influenced later cultures such as the Maya and Aztec.
The replica that now sits at the entry to LLILAS and the Benson Latin American Collection is made of solid stone and weighs 36,000 pounds. It was sculpted by Ignacio Pérez Solano, a Xalapa-based artist, who has spent his career exploring the history of the Gulf Coast and Mesoamerica. Pérez Solano meticulously reproduced San Lorenzo Monument 1 inch by inch, recreating the powerful lines and imposing features of the original work.
Pérez Solano began creating replicas of Olmec heads under the initiative of Miguel Alemán Velasco, who as governor of Veracruz from 1998 to 2004 endeavored to make Olmec culture better known beyond the borders of Mexico. Reproductions of other colossal heads can be found at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Field Museum in Chicago, among other locations. Miguel Alemán Velasco was present for the dedication ceremony at LLILAS on November 19, 2008, which also featured remarks by UT President William Powers and his counterpart, Raul Arias Lovillo of the Universidad Veracruzana. Fidel Herrera Beltrán, current Governor of Veracruz, also spoke, as did Olmec scholars from the U.S. and Mexico.
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I took El Ray – Giant Olmec Head on July 20, 2014 at 08:41AM
and processed it in my digital darkroom on April 10, 2016 at 10:25PM
Others Will Go On was uploaded to Flickr

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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