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Stickers on leather merchant’s cart near Mercato

Stickers on leather merchant’s cart near Mercato Centrale in Florence - Before we entered the wonderful Mercato Centrale (designed in 1874) all I remember was that it was really hot, really crowded and the smell of leather goods completely permeated the air. We couldn’t smell anything but leather - that is until we walked through the entrance of the incredible Mercato Centrale - a wonderland of Italian foods. #florencelife #mercatocentrale #sanlorenzo

Top Dog - Lansing Municipal Airport. This building

Top Dog - Lansing Municipal Airport. This building is on the National Register of Historic Places because it was built by Henry Ford in 1926 and designed by Albert Kahn and featured new technology like large sliding doors, expansive windows and cantilevered construction. Famous aviators like Jimmy Doolittle and Amelia Earhart used the airport back in the day. #nationalregisternps

Happy Mexican Independence Day to all who celebrat

Happy Mexican Independence Day to all who celebrate it! #mexicanindependenceday

Early slitscan attempt - somewhere near Milwaukee

Early slitscan attempt - somewhere near Milwaukee on Amtrak #slitscan #amtrak

Parking lot overspray - Chicago | “We shouldn’

Parking lot overspray - Chicago | “We shouldn’t stick too close to everyday reality but give room to the reality of the heart, of the mind, and of the imagination. Those things can help us in life.” - Hayao Miyazaki #abstractimage

Tree and junior tree - South side of Chicago || “I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.” -Henri Matisse

Apartment building south side of Chicago - on the

Apartment building south side of Chicago - on the way in to see the van Gogh show at the AIC in Chicago on @metrarail | The crazy color of the tinted glass panels on most Metra commuter rail cars always makes me think of old color shifted Kodachrome film. #film #kodachrome #reversalfilm #kodak

Georges Seurat’s brushstrokes - I’m not sure t

Georges Seurat’s brushstrokes - I’m not sure the name of this painting but the color work here amazes me. I love fine detail but when I went in close on the approx 16”x 20” painting behind really nice anti reflective gallery glass for this cell phone close up, I got yelled at. But it was worth it. Thanks @artinstitutechi for a great van Gogh show! And I’ll try to behave next time. “I painted like that because I wanted to get through to something new - a kind of painting that was my own.” -Georges Seurat #seurat #frenchimpressionism #pointillism #colortheory

“Factories at Clichy 1887 -Vincent van Gogh @art

“Factories at Clichy 1887 -Vincent van Gogh @artinstitutechi | I’d never seen this beautiful painting before and it was only one of the many van Gogh gems we saw Saturday. Oil on canvas #vangogh #parisiansuburb #oilpainting

“The Gas Tanks at Clichy” by Paul Signac. Whil

“The Gas Tanks at Clichy” by Paul Signac. While catching the Van Gogh show @artinstitutechi We found this beautifully intricate pointillist ink drawing by Paul Signac and I photographed it. There is so much fine detail (lost in this cell phone image) that the the Parisian newspapers back in 1886 couldn’t reproduce it. Their stochastic dots didn’t play well with the fine dots in the work. This less detailed version comes with room reflections which gives it a more unusual look. #stochastic #paulsignac #georgessuerat #vangogh #pointillist

Art Institute of Chicago - Finally made it to see

Art Institute of Chicago - Finally made it to see the Van Gogh exhibition @artinstitutechi last week. Learned a lot more about Van Gogh and his buddies Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand. Awesome to be able to see their paintings up close and personal. #vangogh #seurat #pleinair #frenchimpressionism #

Boboli Gardens walkway - Florence | The long and w

Boboli Gardens walkway - Florence | The long and winding road takes you through the beautiful Medici designed green space behind the Pitti Palace. “There is in the garden a plant which one ought to leave dry, although most people water it. It is the weed called Envy.
Cosimo de' Medici #florence #boboligardens #medici

Van Buren Station stairway - Chicago | Obviously t

Van Buren Station stairway - Chicago | Obviously the old but beautiful station needs some love and it’s getting it soon in the form of a $100 million dollar renovation slated for 2024 through 2027. But word is Metra is ditching the incredible Hector Guimard designed French Art Nouveau style entrance! Hope it’s put somewhere nearby. Built in 1900, and installed in Grant Park in 2003 it’s one of my favorite gens of Grant Park which is of course, another gem. #grantpark #frenchartnouveau #hectorguimar #metra #unionleagueclubofchicago #chicagophotography

Christmas light show - Flossmoor, Illinois | You k

Christmas light show - Flossmoor, Illinois | You know it’s never too early to start thinking about the gift giving season. This LED work I did during my travels in and around Chicago over a 4 year period is still in the editing stage. It was so fun making these LED images that I kind of got addicted and obsessed. So that almost every time I was in the car (which was a lot back then) I’d be making images out the window, as I was moving. I used a lot of different full frame cameras, but always with a 24-70 2.8 lens which worked really well, hand held out the side of the car and through the windshield. #photographwhatyouknow

LED abstract - San Fransisco | “The more horrify

LED abstract - San Fransisco | “The more horrifying the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.” - Paul Klee #ledabstract #abstractart @abstract.mag #abstractphotoart

Wacker & Wabash - Chicago What a night! #chicago

Wacker & Wabash - Chicago
What a night! #chicago #timewarp

Cabbage White butterfly - Northern Michigan. I pho

Cabbage White butterfly - Northern Michigan. I photographed this little butterfly on Fuji Velvia many years ago in Lake Leelanau, MI. #butterfly #upnorth #northernmichigan #whitecabbagebutterfly #velvia

Red Admiral butterfly - Ever since a good friend g

Red Admiral butterfly - Ever since a good friend gave me a copy of Cooper Eden’s, Now is the Moon’s Eyebrow, I’ve been a huge fan of the elusive author/illustrator. “If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.” - Cooper Edens #butterfly #redadmiral #cooperedens

Red Admiral butterfly - Chicago | I was inches awa

Red Admiral butterfly - Chicago | I was inches away from almost squashing this beautiful Red Admiral as I got out of my car the other day. But luckily I saw it in time. After photographing the beautiful bug for awhile I think I got too close and scared it away. But I looked up the Red Admiral and found that it’s diet consists of rotting fruit, tree sap and bird droppings - so that’s pretty cool. Godspeed Red Admiral

FU blocks - More recent stock imagery using vintag

FU blocks - More recent stock imagery using vintage children’s building blocks. This could mean FLUX UNIT which is the unit of density of electromagnetic radiation from a radio star - often abbreviated as: fu. Of course it could also be an abbreviation of some words used frequently in conjunction with the universally loved one finger salute. #buildingblocks #fluxunit #electromagneticradiation #radiostar #fu #onefingersalute

Cop block - Maybe 1940s or 1950s art on the wooden

Cop block - Maybe 1940s or 1950s art on the wooden children’s building block? #buildingblocks

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