AaronSpruit

I have no idea why these placards were sitting on UIC’s campus, but I couldn’t resist.  I’m sure there’s some interesting back story to these because as I was taking the picture there were many people in the building next to them staring at me.  It’s funny how regardless of what you’re taking a picture of, people have a tendency to stare at me.  Do I look like a tourist or is it because I’m taking pictures of things they wouldn’t normally consider taking a picture of?

Regardless, I wish there was more I could’ve done with these two images.  I like that they’re in their native location, but a part of me wishes I had done something better with the composition.

I love walking around the city and finding so many interesting sites.  This was actually found on Racine St as the facade to Big Monster Toys (at the time of posting this the website didn’t work).  As wikipedia mentions, this is their front door.

How fun!

Oh yeah, Happy Halloween!  I saved the Monster picture for just this occasion.

**Update** My new macro lens will be here tomorrow.  Yay!

This was taken in the courtyard of the church on the magnificent mile.  It’s quite fun living downtown and being able to walk to all of these great areas.  Anyways, this was the best angle I was able to find for this fountain.  I like how the light catches the downspout and the water is frozen.  I had to do a little bit of touchups to this image, but nothing drastic (as most of my images are unless otherwise said).  Mostly this consisted of a little dodging burning to separate the subject from the background.

In other news, I really hope everyone is enjoying the dark CSS style.  I actually think I enjoy looking at most of my images with it, along with the rest of the site.  What do you think?

This is another close to home shot.  Taken under one of the Metra lines, this toilet seat lid has been meticulously placed against the metal I beam.  What makes this even stranger is that it has been there for around 6 months now.  Everytime I walk home that way, I’ve told myself I needed to take a picture of it.  Well, I finally got around to it.

I’m adding another category also: Sepia.  This is because many of the images I’ve uploaded aren’t really black & white, but instead Sepia tones.  I figure I should fix that now before it gets out of hand with too many entries.

I couldn’t help but take this picture when I was in a local Potbelly’s.  Munching on a sandwich I happened to look up and notice this ironic piece of work.  I’m not a real fan of the framing job I did, and the angle wasn’t the best to correct it, but it was just too funny not to post here.

This was originally an image that I took for my Digital II photography course.  The assignment was to photograph shadows.  Originally, in class, everything was black and white, but I really like the way the brightness of the orange and red offset the background.

Many in the class thought that this was taken at night, but actually it was during the a very bright day.  All of the objects in the background, and even most of the subject were hidden in the shadow cast by a large building.  Not really all the much else to say, except, yeah first real image!