November Night 7

November Night 7, originally uploaded by Mikey Brick.

I made a jaunt through the neighborhood, where I found this structure, probably a garage, next to the blue line.

November Night 6

November Night 6, originally uploaded by Mikey Brick.

Well, that was a big night. My band, Tijuana Jai Alai, played an Election Night party at Mary's Attic with Democracy Burlesque. It was the end of our six weeks with that show. I loaded my drums and took a few pictures while across town the President was about to give his acceptance speech. I heard the speech on the radio on my drive home. XRT radio followed their live broadcast of the speech with Patti Smith's "People Have The Power." "Love, charity, duty, and patriotism," y'all.

November Night 5

November Night 5, originally uploaded by Mikey Brick.

I took all my pictures tonight in the alley while trying to get a large, very heavy machine into the building. The truck that brought it was too big to backup to our dock, so the machine was left on the ground. We borrowed a pallet jack and rented a truck with a lift gate that just was not big enough, and spent hours trying to force and finesse the machine onto the truck and in the door. I'm sore all over, too.

November Night 4

November Night 4, originally uploaded by Mikey Brick.

I took a friend home, which got me out of my neighborhood. Nothing jumped out at me in her neighborhood, Lincoln Square, but at Lincoln and Addison I shot a few pictures of the CTA tracks and this train bridge with a firefighter's mural below it.

November Night 3

November Night 3, originally uploaded by Mikey Brick.

Construction on this castle-like building stopped before I moved to Chicago in 2008. I'm curious what it might look like finished. I'm also curious if I ever will see what it looks like finished.

November Night 2

November Night 2, originally uploaded by Mikey Brick.

November second is the Day of the Dead. I spent the afternoon and night in Pilsen and marched in the Día De Los Muertos procession. I didn't take a tripod with me, so I had to rely on high ISO for this picture of an ofrenda at St. Procopius Church.

November Night 1

November Night 1, originally uploaded by Mikey Brick.

November's theme is night photos. The first night I just went out to the back yard. Somehow, every picture was blurry. My tripod was secure. Malicous only bumped my tripod during one exposure, and it wasn't this one since he's standing under the deck. Whatever my problem was, I hope I avoid it for the rest of the month.