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Montrose Park athletic field and track. May 29, 2025

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Lights under the new “lL” viaduct over Argyle Street.

Why did I return to this after considering this and moving on. The lights reminded me of a childhood game, Pan Kai. But shapes on a grid was not enough to interest me. I took the picture for later consideration. Even though the lights are the major compositional element I did go out of my way to make sure everything was in focus even the deck. It is the structure underneath that seems to be important. Much like architecture, contemplation has structures that support it. St. Teresa of Avila connected the abandonment of this kind of prayer to education, in particular, the interior work of knowing oneself: “For such persons don’t reflect that there is an interior world here within us”.

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Thinking of sacred spaces. No.3

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The photos have Something Inside, amazing

Thanks.

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Thinking about sacred spaces - Night

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Thinking about sacred spaces - Morning

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Along the Sioux Falls bike path between Cliff & Minnesota. March 19. 2025

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Evening Rush at Wilson Station. Uptown,Chicago - April 3,2025

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From the Hands-Off protest at the Daley Center, Chicago Saturday April 5, 2025

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…a part of the Mag Mile series

Upper Wacker St. (about 2 blocks west of Michigan Ave) March 5, 2025 No.4

Study in motion using M4/3 sensor-shift high resolution capture.

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Michigan Avenue ( The Mag Mile), Chicago, IL - No.3

Study in motion using the M4/3 sensor shift high resolution capture.

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Michigan Avenue (The Mag Mile), Chicago,IL. March 5, 2025 No.2

Study in motion using M4/3 sensor shift high resolution capture.

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Michigan Ave , (the Mag Mile), Chicago,IL. - March 5, 2025 No.1

Study in motion using m4/3 sensor shift hand-held high resolution capture.

I am struck by the sense of cold and damp. Initially disappointed that the snow did not show better yet I keep coming back to these pictures for the depth of emotion I find in them. Well… maybe it is the sense of isolation I feel. I have ADHD and I am an enneagram 5. Socially awkward and anxious plus stingy with my thoughts and emotions. I desire to be where people are yet I struggle to interact. My camera used to be a safe bubble that made that possible. Seems the internet ruined that. It doesn’t matter that taking pictures in public places is protected by law, socially it has become a minefield. This makes me more isolated, more anxious - the tension of remaining still while the world is moving around me. My salvation is knowing God is; love

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Argyle St. the day of the Lunar New Year parade. February 2025.

There is a tension within the art of photography created by our desire for detail and abstraction, recording the feeling of the moment and freezing the action. H.C. Bresson talked about the idea that Sharpness is a bourgeois concept meaning ( at least I take it this way) that all the metrics marketing uses to sell equipment and supplies is not the measure for judging photographic images at all. Yet as artists we are driven by the images we make , to build on our successes. There is what we hope for and what we get. Sometime they are the same sometimes not. What I did not get does not change the fact that this is a successful image, If I do say so myself.

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Experiments in capturing motion with a digital camera. Rather than using a slow shutter I am using High Resolution Sensor Shift technology which takes 9 images in succession and then aligns the images layering the objects that moved. This is my first attempt to try this with street photography. I was hoping that rain would look heavier which was not the case. The first image had the fastest shutter speed, the second -slower, and the last the slowest as the cloud cover increased. On the one hand the results seem a bit random. The parts of these images that I like best I could not have predicted. Yet the combination of sharp detailed images with a sense of time passing that I hoped for, I got.

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Above the breakwall it used to be all grass. At this place the waterline was against the breakwall. For many years there was a boat ramp off in the distance. Now there is a large dog beach with at least least 75yds to the water.

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Photography as an art fails when the image is just a copy of a thing. Context, juxtaposition, something that alters it in any way that draws us into contemplation. What does it make us feel, think about. I think about the ripples in the sand. I feel a peace that comes with the ending of the day. I think about how man’s presence changes the world. Then the nature of collaboration in creation…foot prints in the sand to high rise buildings along the waterfront. Pollution ,climate change, it is all there as welll my part in it. …this image and how my treatment reveals something different from all the images possibly taken from this spot (‘cuz it’s all about me). Contritions mixed with wonder. 5

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Above the breakwall it used to be all grass. At this place the waterline was against the breakwall. For many years there was a boat ramp off in the distance. Now there is a large dog beach with at least least 75yds to the water.

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