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Jim Lindstrom
@jimlindstrom.bsky.social
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.
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A wet and eerie drive through Robbins, IL at 2am #photography#NightPhotography#illinois

We're in a car. Outside it's pitch black and raining. We've stopped at a railroad crossing. The center yellow lines are semi-visible, going from bottom left of frame toward the center/horizon. Some red lights are bokeh'ed and bleeding because of the rain on the windshield.
We're on a backroad, stopped, with our headlights illuminating the road ahead of us. A pair of streetlights illuminate the side of the road in the mid- and background. Slight lens flairs sparkle around the first streetlight. Lush grass lines both sides of the road.
We're looking head-on at a probably-abandoned abandoned house. The house is framed by a pair of probably-dead trees on either side. To the right of the house, a vehicle is parked in the shadows at the back of the driveway. Powerlines streak left-to-right above the house. The sidewalk and street are cropped out of this picture, giving the house the appearance of standing alone in a field, rather than at the end of a dead-end residential street.
This is a very dark and murky photo. The main element is a small town's water tower, which is barely visble in the dark. In the foreground, two streetlights dominate the photo because water on the lens is scattering the white lights in dramatic and chaotic ways.
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The fascinating and historically notable S.B. Fuller House, in increasingly desperate condition these days as fundraising to save it stalls out, is located right by the water tower.

The Mogul in Robbins: S.B. Fuller's Futuristic House In Peril
The Mogul in Robbins: S.B. Fuller's Futuristic House In Peril

A visit to the unoccupied remnants of a pioneering and controversial Black cosmetics entrepreneur's trophy home in Chicago's south suburbs

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Jim Lindstrom
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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.
175 followers129 following224 posts
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