Saturday, December 14, 2024

Best Photos of 2024

Best photos of 2024?


Who knows?  After you take almost 50,000 pictures in a year, they all sort of blur together, and not just because most of them aren’t in focus. 

But everybody else is posting their "best-of's" so I ask you guvnor: why not me?  I put it to you - and I leave it to you.

The good part is that while I may, through some perverse compulsion, post them, you, dear reader, are under no obligation to look at them, which would put you in good company with, at the very least, 99.999% of humanity.

But should you choose to persist, I've winnowed the 50k down to an arbitrary handful, and hope that you’ll be amused by this sampling of life in Chicago over the past 12 months. 

(Probably the best way to view is to click on the first, then click again to move through the images.)



Cheri Charlton

Carlos Kalmar


Fireman at smoky blaze at Smith & Wollinsky's


 


Chicago Symphony Orchestra Music Director Designate Klaus Mäkelä


Paul Anka


Heather Cherone at work







































































Street preacher reminding us we're all going to Hell