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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. 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 · 23h

Squint: atop this dead tree, on a rickety platform, inexplicably sits a humble deck chair. Same block as the tiny-hoop. This feels like a place you aren't welcome unless you've got a beer in your left hand and a bb gun in your right.

In an overgrown yard, several shrubs sit in the foreground, a few large pine trees frame the image, and in the back a 1-2 story dead tree holds a platform with an empty white lawn chair pointed toward us.

Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 1d

This lone, absurdly low basketball hoop -- on a very sparsely populated street on Gary's outskirts -- makes me happy and sad at the same time #photography #nwindiana

Color, portrait-orientation photo of a basketball backboard and hoop attached to a wooden utility pole. The pole is in some scraggly green grass on the side of a narrow paved but unmarked road. We can see a single house 100 meters down on the right. The hoop is absurdly low (maybe 3 ft high). The backboard is plywood that is weather-worn.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 7d

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 · 21d

Pi!

Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 28d

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. :)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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