Meant to say "lighting variations", not "living variations", two posts up

Ektar does what I expect 90% of the time and has great detail, so it's my go-to. I just wish it wasn't continually impacted by supply chain issues - I prefer to buy from a camera store, but often my stores are out.

Ektachrome can be really great, but it's so challenging to get right on the fly.

It's mostly the colder images, partially because of living variations on different shoot days and partially because I didn't have myself dialed in correctly for Ektachrome. 1, 2, and 4 here are examples - the majority of the ones I posted were Portra.

These were shot on Ektachrome E100 and Portra 160. I hadn't shot Ektachrome in awhile, so I overerexposed some of it and didn't get fantastic results. It's such a good film for detail in the right conditions, but so finicky (esp. in bright outdoor light).

More typically, I tend to shoot Ektar 100.

Quick correction: Baric Commons is larger than Indian Trails Apartments in building count, but not in unit count. 141 units vs. 180 units

People always try to remove them and find out quickly that they're made to adhere and tear in tiny sections without coming off, so I admire this creative solution

I have a few more, but my camera was suffering from a light leak on one of the days I documented that block, so I didn't get much.

Ever take photos of the buildings that were torn down ~15 years ago across from the elementary school on 115th and along the east side of State just south of 115th?

It's usually plated differently than this

The total number of property parcels subject to full acquisition or an easement for RLE is 307. Of those, ~67 contained residential buildings at the time of acquisition. Some of those were vacant, and some were multifamily, so I'd wager about 60 families displaced for the chosen track alignment.

There's no blog post to accompany this particular set of photos - they're just part of the larger body of work I've been building around the RLE project trajectory. But for some background on that work and why + how I'm going about it, you can read this old thead:

I'm a board member of a nonprofit that pays rent to a management company that is contracted by a building ownership group that includes *the same* nonprofit, which in turn is only a tiny fractional owner of the building because it's mostly held by a large bank for tax credit reasons, so yes, I agree

Indian Trails Apartments sits directly across from Baric Commons, an even larger complex that was long neglected, then purchased by inexperienced out of state owners with big promises (including a famous basketball player), then vacated and left to rot. I wrote about Baric Commons earlier this year:

Yeah that's wild