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Jim Lindstrom
@jimlindstrom.bsky.social
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Chicago (prev NYC, orig Iowa). Cycling and photography enthusiast. Dad to 2 boys, 2 cats and a dog. History junkie. In an alternate life: a 19th century composer. Photos: http://jimlindstrom.com/portfolio/
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jan 10
I took some time this week to collect a few albums of my favorite shots from 2024-ish. jimlindstrom.com/portfolio/in... #photography #NightPhotography #chicago
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Several Albums of My Favorite Work. Night Landscapes, Beautiful Ruin, Industry, Etc.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 13h
The storm howls around her #chicago #photography #BlackAndWhite
Black and white photo taken in an alley in Chicago. In the top right, a woman's face (a mural on the corner of a building) looks up and to the right. Around her the image swirls and blurs, making it hard to tell exactly what's going on. The bottom left of the image appears almost black and looks like the unlit back side of an image (facing us). Between it and the mural, a wooden utility pole is semi-visible amdst the swirl. Power/communication lines vaguely seem to connect to/from it. In the background, they sky seems messy and angry, like a dust storm is howling by.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 1d
DEAD →
Black and white photo, looking across a street at some kind of single-story structure nestled in scraggly brush/foliage. The building has a horizontal strip (maybe darker bricks in the middle third) with a diamond design centered in it. Below that, someone has faintly spray-painted the word "DEAD" and in darker and higher-contrast, an arrow pointing right. At the edge of the frame on the right we see a two story home, with a second-floor window just visible along the image's edge.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 15d
Pi!
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 22d
Wicker Park, during a dinnertime pizza run. #chicago #photography
A biker captured midway across the Damen/Milwaukee/North Ave intersection, with the blue line behind him and the art deco building, The Robey, dominating the background and top half of the image.
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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · Sep 7
I'm struggling with what I want to say about the Methodist Campground in Des Plaines. Melancholy. Otherworldly. Simultaneously frozen in and ravaged by time.
Photo of a small white frame house. Leaning noticeably to the left. Behind it a larger building is visible with a pointed peak at the center of its roof and clerestory Windows
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Sep 3
Ah, small world! thanks for the boost. I haven't taken many photos lately, but I'm enjoying yours. :)
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Aug 29
Oz Park. The Chosen Tree, apparently. #chicago #photography
A black and white photo taken in a park, centered on a tree about 30 feet into the frame. The tress is in a grassy clearing, and it casting harsh shadows toward the camera, on the ground. Above the tree, light streams down into the canopy from nearly straight overhead, and illuminates dust kicked up by a nearby leaf blower that makes the atmosphere ethereal and sublime.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Aug 27
4/1/25. Illinois at Sunset. #photography #illinois
Color photography of the sun setting over a rural landscape. Electrical poles and wires trail out into the distance toward the sun, where they're lost in the brightness and the haze. In the foreground, we can see finger prints and dirt texture applied over the scene because of the Amtrak window through which this shot was taken.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Aug 15
Haven't taken many photos lately, but have been itching to get out there again at some point. Here's an older one. #chicago #photography #NightPhotography #BlackAndWhite
An hommage to Ikko Narahara's photo, "Shadow of car driving through desert, Arizona". This is a black-and-white photo of a nighttime scene looking up Lincoln Ave in Chicago. The main element is a bus in the center, racing away from us, with light streaks from its rear lights and the slow exposure. Nearer to us, on the right edge, is the outline of the metal frame of a car parked on the side of the road. Across the road, we see the near edge of some other parked cars lit up in high contrast. Behind them, one of the building fronts shows a 5-10 story-high mural of Abe Lincoln, gazing out over the scene from his sunken eye sockets.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jul 29
Same. I’m going to try an overnight ride, given the constraints of family/work, so I’m delighted to see there is pretty good coverage of trails most of the way so I’m on narrow, fast, poorly lit country roads as little as possible.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jul 29
Thanks for posting the answer. I’m looking at riding up and biking back in the next week or so. Was curious myself
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jul 21
I feel you. An apartment I had in Brooklyn a decade ago had roaches and go to my grave with active ptsd.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jul 13
I don’t know why I never considered that people do this on Divvy bikes. Ponder that when you unlock your next one.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jul 6
Thanks Luis!
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jul 5
We went up to Evanston to watch fireworks on the beach last night. Couldn't have been a lovelier sunset. #photography #illinois
Color photo looking out onto Lake Michigan. In the foreground, on the left half of the image, we see the white painted wood of a lifeguard chair, with a pink/red number 13 painted on it. On the right side, in the bottom half, we see the sand of the beach meting the tide, with a few very small waves rolling in. From the right side, we see the the southern barrier of the beach projecting out into the water. And right above it, some salmon-colored hues of sunset meet the fading blue evening sky.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jul 4
Has anybody biked between #milwaukee and #chicago? I'm planning to take amtrak up around 7pm and do the ride back overnight. (Only time I can reliably fit in long rides these days.) I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions on routes north of Racine. (I have biked in MKE and racine<--->chi before.)
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jul 1
I went out for a post-sunset ride to Gary last night. The lakefront, under the last glimmers of sunset, was bustling. After that it got very peaceful and the temperature was just perfect. #bikechi #cycling #photography #NightPhotography #chicago
Color photo taken on the lake front trail, near Webster Ave, looking west across LSD (where some northbound cars are streaking across the exposure) and at the last hints of pink in a sunset. Color photo taken south of Oak St Beach, looking northwest. In the foregorund, a trio of girls sit on the concrete talking and watching the lake. In front of them some motion-blurred people walk past. On the left, we see lincoln park and streeterville lakefront highrises. In center, at the distance, we see some peach-colored sunset hues. Color photo taken in Calumet Park, looking up at a trio of electrical pylons. The one in the foreground is wooden and appears taller and more the subject. It has a lone bit of wire draping off its arm toward the gorund. Behind it, two much larger (but smaller in 2D, because further away) pylons carry dozens of electrical lines. In the background, a milky white layer of clouds envelops the scene. Photo taken in Calumet Park. In the foreground, some trees and shrubbery in verdant shades of green catch light from a streetlamp off frame to the left which is casting some rays of light into the scene. Behind them, several electrical pylons loom over the scene.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jun 23
Northbound lane is in such bad shape too, pothole-wise.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · May 4
Hugs Shark captures the zeitgeist pretty well
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Apr 28
Manhole sun would be a great weird al cover of soundgarden
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Phil Kneen @philkneen.bsky.social · Apr 27
Japan journal
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Apr 27
light you captured in that third one is sublime.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Apr 26
11/9/24. Indian Ridge Marsh. #chicago #photography
Black and white photo taken at night. We're standing on a street, looking at a home head-on. There is a single story home, with one of the lights on. The bottom of the home is occluded by a wooden fence that starts near the left edge of the frame and extends across and off the right edge. The left edge of the frame is semi-mysteriously/ominously blank. In the background we see some trees and not much else.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Apr 23
There is a phone number for xfinity’s security team in response to an identical question here: forums.xfinity.com/conversation...
Temporarily Blacklisted Account Message — Occurs Daily | Xfinity Community Forum
Hello; For the past month, my email client has been returning the message below, preventing me from accessing my email: The server for account "&lt; [Edited: "Personal Information"]&gt;" returned...
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Apr 22
Miller Beach. 1/17/25. #photography #indiana
We're back in January of this year. There's fresh snow on the ground. We're at the northern terminus of Sullivan St, in Gary Indiana, where the road meets the sand and then the sand meets Lake Michigan. We're looking up a path over the dune, where tan-and-white snow/sand covers the bottom third of the photo, and uniformly milky, overcast skies cover the top chunk, and in between, at the horizon, a sliver of emerald colored water shows over the top of the dune.
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