Time for the second collection of images from Day 3 of my work trip to Chicago. The final day of any real photography… for the most part. The rest of the days were filled with work… boring work.

When we left off, Lowell was feeding birds in a park street corn from a food truck:

They loved the street corn so very much!

Buckingham Fountain – I should have known it wasn’t running, but we walked like a mile to it…

To get a heavy dose of disappointment…

Still cool looking though…

And just begging you to go wading in it…

Old Michigan steams like a young man’s dreams…

It’s Herbie Hancock…

Would’ve been pretty cool if it had been on.

My Grandpa Paris had lion sculptures flanking his driveway. I don’t know why everybody doesn’t.

One more collection of images from Day 3 of my trip to Chicago to share.

NOTE: WHILE NEXT MONDAY ISN’T A HOLIDAY IT IS THE DAY BEFORE A HOLIDAY, I MIGHT BE BUSY ON THAT DAY AND YOU MIGHT BE BUSY THAT DAY, SO MAKE PLANS FOR SUBMITTING ACCORDINGLY.

This is your reminder that this week’s THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE theme is RETAIL:

RETAIL

RETAIL! What a great theme for Year 10 of THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE!

An astute observer that has a physical Photography 139 Calendar may notice that this week says MUSIC and not RETAIL. That was a typo that wasn’t caught by my proofreader. Mostly because I didn’t have my proofreader look over the calendar. So don’t take a music picture, unless it is at a music store. This theme was suggested by Elizabeth.

While this is the first time that RETAIL has been a theme for THE WEEKLY PHOTO CHALLENGE, it isn’t the first time that a similar theme has been used. Check out these submissions from the past for inspiration for this week:

Week 18 – Sarah Karber

Week 141 – Micky Augustin

Week 141 – Christopher D. Bennett

Week 390 – Sarah Toot

Week 390 – Elizabeth Nordeen

This is the last of the Friday Reminders. Nobody made a case for keeping them going, so apparently they won’t be missed.

Happy photo harvesting!