A few weeks ago I took some promotional images for Chicago's newest green company: The Chicago Electric Boat Company! We had a fun day taking the boats out on the Chicago River and the models were very impressed with the silent, comfortable and zero emissions ride. No prior boating experience is needed to drive these [...]
Category: odd jobber
35mm Spring Cleaning
I'm working on updating my online portfolio and found a folder on a seemingly forgotten external hard drive entitled "35mm." Sure enough, they were scanned photographs from various darkroom projects in college. As much as I appreciate the cost effective introduction of digital photography there's nothing quite like spending hours in the darkroom to make [...]
Friday Writer’s Block
What to post on a day of limited creativity? Essie, of course. Taken with my iPhone.
My Kitchen Windowsill, circa 2009
I'm cleaning out some old files on my computer and various external hard drives and came across this mini-series I did in January of 2009. The subject was my windowsill and the amaryllis bulbs I had received for Christmas. The window in my old kitchen faced west and I remember walking in the room in [...]
Sunny Spring Afternoon
I spent the afternoon with the dogs and my iPhone in my parents' backyard. Record high today in Chicago, I can't believe it's only March!
Email Followers!
This is a quick message for my lovely, loyal and growing number of email followers. Thank you so much for subscribing to my blog and for taking the time to look at my photos and read my little stories. Your growing support over the past few months has meant the world to me and I'm [...]
Happy Birthday, Chicago!
Today is my home town's 175th birthday! Chicago has served as a backdrop to so many of my photographs over the years, from the parks to the skyline to the blue waters of Lake Michigan. Below is a little tribute to the Windy City - 175 years beautiful!
Travel Journals
When I was in junior high I tried to keep a diary because, in the 90's, that's what junior high girls did - or said they did. I came across those diaries a few years ago when my mom kindly threatened to throw out everything in my childhood room if I didn't clean out the [...]
Jenn Winter 