Picasso and Chicago
Travel
Griffith Observatory
Following Notre Dame’s win against Southern California a couple weeks ago, I spent two days wandering around Los Angeles doing a bit of sightseeing before coming back to South Bend. One of my first stops was the Griffith Observatory overlooking the Los Angeles skyline. Several pivotal scenes in James Dean’s “Rebel Without A Cause” were filmed there, making it instantly a place I wanted to visit. I lucked out and hiked up to the observatory just in time to enjoy some incredible evening light.
Venice Beach Skatepark
Chicago
I spent a couple of days last week with my girlfriend in Chicago on a much-needed vacation. I’ve been to Chicago a few times mostly on business so it was nice to go just purely for fun. We visited the Lincoln Park Zoo, Shedd Aquarium, Navy Pier and Second City: all places I’ve never been in Chicago. It was a nice way to unwind from a very stressful month of work in June and find some visual inspiration along with way.
Fall vacation
Until this week, I had been procrastinating processing and scanning a couple rolls of 120 film. Part of this stemmed from the fact that I hadn’t really touched my Holgas since September. Recently, I picked them back up and started to shoot with them again. I did this in an attempt to once again get inspired and excited about photography in general. I love shooting with my Holgas as a way to decompress and rethink how I look at things visually. The result of my return from Holga hiatus was developing and scanning the rolls. To my surprise, one roll was shot in September during a vacation to Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee while I was working in Wyoming.
