Here you'll find plenty of abandoned buildings, architecture, art, bicycles, books, food & drink, shopping malls, signs, sports, trains & transit (and a few pictures of people). I've photographed every Chicago neighborhood, most of its suburbs, much of the Midwest/Rust Belt, and occasionally elsewhere in or outside the U.S.

I've had an amazing 5+ years on Flickr improving my photography (still all done with point & shoot cameras), developing many new obsessions, and meeting great people. I'm happy to meet Flickr people I follow and to have my photos used, but if you are 1) trying to use one of my photos for a commercial project without paying or 2) a stranger asking about where to find abandoned buildings and how to get in, I probably won't answer. Just sayin'.

I started these Flickr groups but might not do the best job keeping them up: Bicycling Chicago, Northwest Indiana, Signs of Detroit, Walgreens, Louis Sullivan, Architect, and Albert Kahn, Architect.

See also: mod as hell (my other Flickr for historic scans, vintage kitsch, things found in abandoned buildings, etc.), my Twitter, my sports (hockey-focused) blog, a little chippy, my Goodreads, and my blog about the above interests and obsessions (includes non-Flickr photos!), City of Destiny

(There are many more photos of me on here; I just loathe that Flickr posts them on your profile, where I do not want them displayed. But I guess I'll start adding them)