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Jim Lindstrom

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Chicago (prev NYC, orig Iowa). Cycling and photography enthusiast. Dad to 2 boys, 2 cats and a dog. History junkie. In an alternate life: a 19th century composer. Photos: jimlindstrom.com/portfolio

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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Alternate view of Bond, Bailey & Smith
A photo of a small brick machine shop with a painted yellow sign across its facade over a front garage door that reads "Bond, Bailey & Smith". The shop is cluttered with equipment, only some of which is visible through the front swing doors. A silver Lincoln Town car is parked out front.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Watched some young rockers at Reggies today.
A keyboardist a guitarist and half a singer are distantly visible on stage. We're watching from the balcony, above. On the right, a sticker of a skeleton looks off to the right of the image.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
10/4/24. Streeterville. #chicago #photography
Photo (extremely high contrast black and white) of a woman ascending a staircase. The stairs begin at the bottom right, move diagonally up, level out briefly (where the woman is), then begin to ascend again on the top right. Below and above the stairs the image is entirely underexposed and black, with no detail in the shadow. On the top right, some graffitti'ed metal is barely visible. The image is very nearly literally black and white, as in without any shades of gray. The woman's hair (died red in reality) shows up as streaky white strands emerging out of the darkness. Her pants below the knees are also visible in the dim light behind the bars of the staircase railing next to her.
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aows @aows.co · 13/07/2026
Mountains of Asturias, II. June 2026 #aowsimages #blackandwhite #photography
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 5/5, Segment 2/2: Harvard to Chicago. #cycling #chicago #bikeTooter 406.5 miles later, home at last. (I have gripes with Google Maps. See dirt track photo. Also, it led me via a concrete yard, where a kindly concrete truck ran me off the road and yelled at me.)
This was a segment of the Prairie Trail near Crystal Lake. I had hoped to meet up with @cetan there, but the timing didn’t work out this time. Next time!Okay this photo STILL makes me mad. This is in the Deer Grove blah-blah-blah forest preserve. I swear there were 20 decision points leading up to this and they all seemed kinda okay, but then I ended up literally picking up my 60 pounds of bike+gear to .. let’s say “portage” it several times. At this point Google Maps really should have said “oh, shoot … what TYPE of bike do you want directions for?” Ahead of me is a muddy, semi-dry creek bed  with sticks, and then a fallen tree. I’m god knows where in this stupid presever and just WANT OUT. I anger-biked down the side of Dundee Rd (thrilling and unsafe) for a few miles after this to blow off steam.A random gyros/burgers/tacos place that I passed on West Belmont. It’s got super saturated red and yellow stripes on the siding. Name is “Mic Duck’s”. Feels like Chicago, without obviously including the Sears Tower. Which, speaking of, here you go. Obligatory downtown shot, with a graffiti-covered life ring in front of the Chicago River.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 5/5, Segment 1/2: Rockford to Harvard. #cycling #chicago Up at 3am to begin the century ride home. I'd love to do the first part of this again in daylight, but the sunrise was gorgeous too.
Sunset photo at Rock Cut State Park Campgrounds, just northeast of Rockford. This is where I stayed (just 100m to the left) the last night. This photo is taken on an asphalt path, as the path loops out into the distance behind some trees. In front of the nearest tree is a sign reading “Prairie View: Sites 500 - 531”. Behind the trees the sun is setting and the horizon is a beautiful peach shade. Above the sunset part of the sky the rest of the sky is dotted with wispy white/gray clouds.Sunrise photo taken near Capron on a trail that I think is called the Long Prairie Trail. It runs east-west-ish, through multiple townships and has every surface type you can think of depending on the segment. This portion was two dirt paths, with low tree covering on both sides. The top of the sky is still night, but at the horizon, today’s sun is rising. This is such a forbidding, weird scene. We’re looking south from Streit Road—which, let’s talk about that first. Is it like “street” (weird and redundant sounding) or “straight” (which is very much is). Across a simple wire fence, we see a well-mown (or well-eaten by cows/goats) grassy area containing a lake that I can only describe as the color/texture of pea soup or maybe a creamy pesto. In it are a half dozen dead trees sticking up. Above them is this crazy chaotic cluster of birds flying in a tornado pattern. Around this spot, Harvard, I started wondering “are these the last cows I’ll see today?” These weren’t. There were maybe two more fields of livestock. But these were unfearful, friendly cows in a pasture next to the road—maybe 50 of them.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 4/5, Segment 2/2: Stockton to Roscoe. #cycling #chicago I thought the heat might end my day earlier again, but powered through and am celebrating at a pub with a beer. 95mi to home!
Photo taken off a gravel road outside Lena IL. There’s no street or building or city structures here. It’s a small meadow of tall prairie grass in front of a line of tress. White and purple wild flowers in the foreground. Behind them is a green metal gate (like you’d see to let cattle in/out of an enclosure) with the skull of a horned animal and some kind of hunting vest hung on the gate.Photo of the Jane Addams Trail. It seems to run from Freeport to the IL-WI state line, but I only took it from Buena Vista to Orangeville. It was unexpected (I didn’t seek it out, but Google Maps took em there) and really pleasant. This stretch is a dirt path through a little canyon cut through stone. This day was super hot again, so this trail and its tree covering were very welcome.A brick building in Orangeville with the words “CENTRAL HOUSE” on the front. It’s a 3-story brick building with stone “trim” between floors and little arched fanciness above each window. In front of it is a burgundy-colored RAM truck with the word “Faith” on the back driver’s side window.Photo taken at Colored Sands Bluff Nature Preserve, west of Rockton. Today was crazy hot again for a few hours, though not as bad as yesterday. When I saw that there was a picnic table in the shade with free abundant water to stick my head in, I audibly gasped, “yes. YES!”. I was taking breaks like this for about 10 minutes every half hour during the hottest part of the day.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 4/5, Segment 2/2: Elizabeth to Stockton. #cycling #chicago This was my favorite day. Getting to Iowa was good for the ego. But the area between Galena and Rockford is so beautiful and fun to bike and was good for the soul.
Looking west across US West 20, just west of Elizabeth. We’re looking across the highway, straight at a roadsigns pointing in both directions, as if to say, “Check out this view.” Beyond it, we see a valley filled with fields, trees, and grass. The sky above is lit up with sunrise colors. It’s 6:33amA large flightlless bird (emu? I’m not sure) has been racing next to me within its enclosure. It is giving me side eye. Although to be fair, I think it is a prey animal whose eyes only look sideways. Its neck is cocked just so. Behind it is a field, some farm structures, and some morning sunrise clouds.The “BICYCLE MUSEUM” in Elizabeth. I didn’t have time to go in, but it looked adorable It’s in a 2-3 story brick building and appears (by virtue of the wheels visible) to occupy not just the ground floor retail, but also the higher floors. Looking at a street corner on Front Ave in Stockton. In a beautiful old building with fancy, antique wood interiors is the Copper Leaf Cafe, where I had a hearty and delicious omelette to start the day.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 3/5, Segment 2/2: Clinton to Elizabeth #cycling #chicago Morning: Yay, didn't get rained on. I win, weather! Noon: WOW HOT Afternoon: Farmer Steve kindly throws my bike in his pickup and drives me to a motel so I can take a cold shower and recover from insane heat.
Photo of the Thomson Illinois rail museum, taken when I still cared about seeing things, versus just getting through the day alive. It's a cute little red brick building next to the rail tracks coming into town. One of the MANY spots where I sought refuge from the sun, this is a Lutheran church near Hanover, where some beautiful person put a bench right under a huge shade tree, and put a faucet on the near wall of the church, where I could dowse myself in a gallon of freezing water. The church is a wooden building painted white, with 5 narrow arched windows on our side, and two towers adorned with crosses on the roof.By mid afternoon, instead of stopping every 10-20 miles, I was stopping every 2-3, then every 1. At some point I threw in the towel and rolled into a gas station nearly dead. This kind soul, a farmer named Steve, recommended a nearby motel and even drove me there. After a cold shower, some A/C, and a lot of water, I was feeling better, but ended my ride 30 miles short of my target.After a few hours recuperating, I ventured out for a truly great pulled pork sandwich. This was the view on the way back. We're looking across Highway 20, to the south. Rolling hills with a mixture of farms and trees stretch to the horizon, where a low band of billowy clouds is just visible in the distance.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 3/5, Segment 1/2: Morrison to Clinton. #cycling #chicago Last night's camp was super close to the Mississippi, so I finished my first half of the journey on the Fulton side, then popped over to an adorable bike shop in Clinton IA for spare tubes.
A foggy morning scene. I'm on the left side of a road, looking past a pair of mailboxes, across a grassy lawn, toward some white and red barns in the distance that are blurred by the fog.Selfie taken in Fulton, IL, looking out across the Mississippi at Clinton IA. In the right side, you can see the bridge I'm about to take. If you could smell my clothes in this picture (after a few very hard days of riding), ... well, fortunately you can't.Photo taken entering Clinton, Iowa in the pedestrian lane of the Gateway Bridge, which carries US Rte 30. A big sign over the roadway says "Welcome to Iowa. Clinton. On the Mississippi".Chad Jensen's "The Bicycle Station & Jensen Oil Company". Former gas station and auto parts shop turned bike shop. My bike is leaned up under an awning, hiding from the sprinkles.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 2/5, Segment 2/2: Ashton to Morrrison. #cycling #chicago Nothing like rolling into camp with a feels like of 110 🫠 Made it through the night, though, and got a good shower in. Met some friendly campers at the Morrison Rockwood State Park Campgrounds
Sterling Illinois. It's hot. I'm leaned up next to a tax prep office with enough awning to give me respite from the sun. My legs protrude into the scene, looking collapsed, and shoes splayed wide. In front of us is an asphalt parking lot and then a street with a gray SUV passing. More strip malls are positioned across the street.Another shot from Sterling, Illinois. I'll let all the architecture nerds chime in (hopefully!) with style and notable features of this building. It's mostly white brick or stone with a greenish copper terraced dome atop.Another shot from sterling. This shows a mural on the side of a brick building depicting some of the history of Sterling, in the form of the Sterling Hydraulic Company, and a man on a wagon being pulled by two white steeds.My camp night for the second night. This time I'm in a legit spot in Morrison Rockland State Park. My bike is covered up with a tarp because of threatened thunderstorms overnight.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 2/5, Segment 1/2: DeKalb to Ashton. #cycling #chicago Frustrating day with bike issues, but lot of friendly people, great weather, and quiet, dusty roads.
My first camp site, and my only stealth camping that isn't in a state park or hipcamp. Cornfield on the right, tree line on the left, narrow stretch of wild grass in the middle. you an just make out my bike in the trees. My tent is badly pitched, with the poles rotated 180 degree from how they're supposed to be.Photo taken in a little town just west of DeKalb. We're looking across the street I'm biking on, at a small one story brick building with a marquee of sorts and all-caps letters that say "CHICKEN"I tried to befriend some horses in a field, near Rochelle. The one in front center is backing up slowly and has orange boots on. In a cute display of nurturing, it backed right up into the "arms" of the white speckled one in the back, like a shy kid standing on his parent's shoes and burying his face in their pants.In this photo, outside of Ashton, Illnois, I'm on a yellow-ish dirt/gravel road, pulled over to the left side. Across some grass is a low leafy crop (maybe soybeans). Beyond them, a green house with white trim is nestled into some large, mature trees.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 1/5, Segment 2/2: Wheaton to Sycamore. #cycling #chicago
Photo taken across a grassy lawn at some grain silos and grain elevators arranged into a cluster in the center of the image. This is, I think, on the outskirts of Sycamore, or else on a town just east of there.A pair on a motorcycle passes in front of me as I take a photo across the street of the St. Charles Municipal Center, which has an ornate dome on top of a 2 story brick/concrete building.A wooden Victorian residence in Sycamore, IL. It's painted pale green, and has white trim. In the yard is a giant hydrangea plant that sure looks a lot healthier than the one I have at home.Shot looking down a wooden plank bridge on the Illinois Prairie Path, in the Oak Hill Cemetery, in Geneva, Illinois. There's a sign imploring cyclists to walk their bikes because of wavy lines.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Biking Chicago → Iowa → back. Day 1/5, Segment 1/2: Lake Michigan to Wheaton. #cycling #chicago
Selfie taken at Diversey Harbon. I'm a 40s white guy with a t shirt and a bike helmet. My bike is behind me: a silver touring bike with a sleeping back strapped to the handle bars, two water bottles, and some panniers and a tent on back. In background is Chicago's skyline looking down at Streeterville / River North, where the Hancock Tower is.Selfie taken under the L tracks on Lake Street. I'm in the foreground on the left, holding the camera. Above me are the yellow/brown support beams of the L overhead. Behind me the road and L extend to the vanishing point. A few cars are visible in the distance.My bike in a verdant side yard. Behind it is the brick wall of a 2-story residence, but on the side is a faded painted sign/mural that you can't quite make out.A shot taken while biking the Great Western trail, which begins in St. Charles IL (just across the Fox River from the near western suburbs of Chicago) and heading WNW to Sycamore IL. In this segment, it's a crushed gravel/limestone path with a tree line on either side, and power lines behind/above the trees.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Man this was a gorgeous video. I'm headed out on a bikepacking trip next week myself (assuming air is nontoxic 😶‍🌫️ by then) and am getting excited :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGUn...
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The Perfect Midwest Bikepacking Route
YouTube video by Leigh Foster
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Kelly's Bay, 6/1/26 #photography #LandscapePhotography
Color photo looking out from a bluff that overlooks a bay. In the foreground, at the base of the photo, two cornhole boards catch the evening light. A tree frames the left edge of the image. Out past the bluff, we see the water of the bay meandering from left to right across the middle of the image. We also see a narrow channel further out into the bay, after which, the bay opens up into a wider section we can't really see the extent of. sunset clouds line the back of the image. The image is blurred in a kind of buzzing vertical way, where sharp burrs appear on lines that would otherwise be straight, giving a kind of "on edge" feeling to the otherwise serene landscape.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Another horizontally-motion-blurred sunrise shot from my last long ride (8-10 days ago, in NW Indiana). #cycling #photography
Landscape photography. Looking down an accrss road next to some high-voltage pylons receding into the distance. In the foreground is the shoulder of the road I'm biking on. In the midground, the grass is a really pretty dark, saturated, blurred shade of forest green. Some darker trees dot the horizon. Behind them, a layer of pink/peach clouds hug the horizon. Above them, the sky is somewhere between twilight and the full blue of morning.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Deep River, Porter Co., Indiana #cycling
My bike (a silver touring bike with two water bottles and green pannier bags) parked on the Central Ave bridge over the Deep River, southeast of downtown Gary.
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Michelle @michelle345.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
See the beauty in everything
View onto the colorful lights of Belmont Ave in Chicago through train window raindrops
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This tshirt is badass and I’m tempted to get one.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Chicago people: if you're looking for something to do Sunday afternoon, some friends and I are playing a show at 2pm. Mostly 90's and 00's rock. Family friendly. Should be a blast 😎 bookclubchi.com/event/megada...
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Megadad + Davey Allen | BOOKCLUB
This gig is conditionally all-ages; fans 16-and-under must be accompanied by a parent/guardian at least 30 years old; parents/guardians need not purchase a ticket; fans 17+ may attend unaccompanied.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Gary homes in motion (shot from the hip on Central Ave east of Gary's downtown yesterday). #indiana #photography
Color photo of a u-haul shop, white, with a thin red stripe on the roof, sitting in a green lawn, with an interesting-looking green lightPhoto of the back of 4 single-family homes taken from the back. Each has a fairly large yard, with a portion of it fenced off. Behind the houses are trees, and behind that there is a thin strip of pinkish clouds in the morning light.Color photo of the front of a home, with the sun rising behind it. In front is a parked black long 80s/90s-style car, and in the extreme foreground a black garbage bin is motion-blurred into near oblivion.Bottom third of photo: a blur of grass. Middle third: a wooden fence occluding the back of 2-3 homes. Peeking over the fences: the tops of single family homes and their roofs. A few large green trees poke out of the top of frame. Behind, you can see the same thin pink strip of early-morning clouds.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I woke up at 1:30am for a century ride out to Chesterton, IN (stopping for breakfast at Cherries & Berries). Here's a batch of 4 "first light" shots from the road next to Gary Airport, between East Chicago and Gary. #indiana #cycling #photography #NightPhotography
Color photo taken at twilight, showing a building at the horizon, with some construction/industrial equipment poking above the horizon and shown in silhouette against the sky.Color photo taken at twilight showing some wild grasses in the foreground, a small lake behind it, and the back edge of the lake mirroring the line of trees above it.Color photo taken at twilight, looking diagonally across a road and into some wetlands. On the far side of the road, a lone street lamp illuminates a smaller sign next to it, but not much else. Behind it, the treeline is in silhouette but most of the rest of the wetlands are just black.Color photo taken looking down a canal, with a highway overpass on the right, and a bank of trees on the left. On the overpass, a truck with headlights pointing at us is just visible in the distance.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
5th Ave Foods #chicago #photography
Black and white photo of a three story brick building with vacant land on either side. On the ground level is a defunct retail shop whose signage clearly begins with "5" and ends with "FOODS". The afternoon sun is shining harshly on the right (west-facing) side of the building. The (north-facing) side facing us  is in shadow.
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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 09/06/2026
Drivers can't kill us all 🚲✊
Photo of a Chicago Street with a police car and a semi truck and all over the street are bicycles and bicyclists laying down on the asphalt under a late afternoon cloudy sky.Photo looking down at my legs on the asphalt and my bicycle lying down on the road next to me. Beyond you can see a number of other bicycles and bicyclists on the asphalt in the street.Photo looking down a street with several brick buildings and trees along it. All across the asphalt. There are bicycles and bicyclists laying down on the ground.Photo looking down a street with several brick buildings and trees visible on either side. All across the middle of the street There are bicycles and bicyclists laying down on the asphalt.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
2/28 - 5:56am - northern/central indiana
Photo taken out a car window as it passed by a gas station just before/during sunrise. A reddish sign (maybe Casey's) is blurred past legibility, near center of the frame. a streetlight above it is green-tinted and streaked by motion. Other structures on the right of the frame are squiggled by motion and hard to make out. The picture just gives a vague sense of sleepy roadside filling station that is just pre-dawn and zooming by.
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@ e d e l s u e s z <3 @edelsuesz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
VEB Kombinat Fritz-Heckert-Werkzeugmaschinenbau heute das ITC Heckert-Hochhaus in #chemnitz #Fensterfreitag #WindowFriday #streetphotography #Classicmono #blackandwhitephotography #edelsuesz
Aufnahme in schwarzweiß, Vorbeifahrt an einem Hochhaus aus DDR Zeiten (1980er Jahre) mit 12 Etagen und jeweils linienförmigen Fensterreihen, dazwischen graue Beplankungen, links ein verwischter verschwommener dunkler Baum
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Accidental pocket photos, while biking. #chicago #photography
A cluster of white lens flares, with some green smudging and vignetting.A seeming shot of the ground, showing some paver blocks on the rightPhoto of a boat in a parking lot, but the boat is pointing nearly straight up. The sky is cloudy behind the boat.landscape photo of a tree across a road. the image is rotated 45 degrees and motion blurred.
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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 12/05/2026
Oak Park, Michigan, September 2025
Color photograph looking at a corner of a small industrial building at night. A lone streetlight casts a warm glow across the white-painted cinderblock of the building's corner face, a metal door painted white next to a large loading dock bay door, the light fading across empty asphalt with a few leaves littered here and there, and what looks like maybe part of piece of signage that's blown into a part of the lot and lies sort of curled in a partial cylinder, almost like a sunken concrete pillar. It's very dark outside the small pool of light. A rectangular sign over the metal door reads "Superior" in very prominent large white letters on a black background, the smaller words "Tool rental & repair" in white on a strip of red. Much smaller, directly above the metal door, lettering reads "Shipping & Receiving."
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Lakefront, today, around 5am. #chicago #photography
Photo of a meadow on Chicago's lakefront. On the bottom is grass loaded with dandelions in their post-yellow phase where they're just white bulbs. Above the horizon, the sky is midway between black and blue. A tree emerges from the grass on the left. But the whole scene is slightly motion-blurred, and with some unexplained bright streaks zigging and zagging through the foreground like fireflies.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/05/2026
NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)
Crescent Earth and some delicious lens flareCrescent Earth seen beyond the MoonCrescent Earth behind the MoonThe Moon eclipsing the Sun, with the corona and zodiacal light forming a diffuse glow behind the satellite
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Soren Spicknall @sorenspicknall.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
You can't fool me. This door is clearly the exit.
A photo of two lit exit signs on either side of a door, each pointing away from the door
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Eric Allix Rogers @ericallixrogers.com · 22/04/2026
An unplanned 30 mile bike ride after work fixed me ♥️
Photo of a flooded area with some leafless trees to the left. Filtering the low angle Sun coming through a cloud. A bike trail curves along to the right with more trees to the right of it.Photo looking out over a wide river. There are three barges in the four around on the side of the bank and then beyond that there are high tension power line supports and then a massive bridge structure in the distance. Crossing the river at a great height. The sky is mostly clear and blue with pale sunset colors to the lower left.Photo looking through a filter of cat tails and across placid reflective water to an industrial facility with a couple of smokestacks. It is sunset and the sky is orange and gray and reflecting on the water with wispy clouds.Photo of a bike trail running on a narrow strip of land with water on both sides and a trio of very large power pylons to the right. It is sunset and the sky is fading from intense orange to the lower left to darker blue at the upper right.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
If you're looking to bike an absurd distance to SEPA #5 to see it NOT FLOWING, I regret to inform you this was the last day. Starting tomorrow, per the manager, it'll be flowing. Still, it was a gorgeous day. #cycling #bikechi #chicago
Terraced concrete levels of the #5 SEPA (sidestream elevated pool aeration) station. Ordinarily (starting tomorrow!) they'd be flowing water from one stage down to the next. Shot taken will biking down one of the trails that parallels the Des Plaines River and the Canal. Green grass on either side of the trail for a few feet. Trees on the right (next to the water). The sky above is blue with wisps of white, non-threatening clouds.Shot of my bike leaned up against a concrete support beam for the bridge above us that's extending out toward the horizon over the Des Plaines River in the background. Graffiti covers several of the support beams.Shot of my bike leaned up next to a monument at the end of the SEPA station. Ahead, the Cal Sag Canal (left) and Chicago Sanitary And Ship Canal (right) merge and flow down towards (eventually) the Mississippi.
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ᴍᴀʀsʜᴀ ᴇsᴛᴇs @marshadraws.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗘𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗕𝗹𝘃𝗱
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Night driving. Again.
Color photo taken from car on a two-lane highway at night. The sky is an eerie shade of turquoise, like before a tornado. On the left, an oncoming vehicle is blinding us with its headlights. Ahead of us, we see two cars a quarter mile down the road, their tail lights bouncing around in the camera jitter of our car bumping along. In the center of the image, some electrical pylons jut up from the road and carry a string of wires hazily visible in the motion blur.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Feb 28 @ sun rise. US-421
Portrait orientation color photo of a farm home at sunrise. The home is a couple hundred meters away from us, with the sun coming up at the horizon behind it. To the left of the home is a utility pole, carrying wires across the top of the image. To the right is an evergreen tree about 50% taller than the home. To the right of that stands a streetlight with a small warm orange glow.
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ᴍᴀʀsʜᴀ ᴇsᴛᴇs @marshadraws.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗴𝗼
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Indiana sunrise, Part N+1
Color photograph taken in Indiana at sunrise. We're on a the road next to a home, gazing out across farm land toward the sky lit up with sun rise colors. In the center of the image is a semicircular hoop (like a chuppah) that has some barely-visible holiday lights on it. Next to it, in front, is a pickup truck in profile. The leafless branches of a large tree frame the top and left edges of the image. On the right, we see the porch fencing of a home.
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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · 03/03/2026
Oak Park, Michigan, July 2025
Color photograph looking at a residential intersection at night. A streetlight shines from a corner and over the street, illuminating leaves on branches stretched out over the street over a gray sedan of some kind, a porch light illuminating a red door next to a picture window on the house behind the tree. Stretching up over the tops of the silhouettes of trees you can see red lights of a radio tower shining against a dimly glowing overcast sky
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Just north of Reynolds, IN
Color photograph, in landscape orientation. This is taken  while driving south on US Highway 421 in north-central Indiana, at about 5 or 6am. It's a two lane road on pretty flat land, looking out to the horizon. On the right side, tall electrical pylons line the road--as tall a wooden ones get, before they use metal ones. On the left, a structure is near the edge of frame, motion-blurred. At the horizon, bright yellow-white lights show an oncoming car. The sky is a dusky blue, except for some peach hues right above the horizon.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
US-421, near Medaryville, IN.
Color photo. We're looking out over a farm's barren winter landscape. At the horizon, the sun is rising and the low edge of the sky is peach, while most of the sky above it is still blueish. Across the top of the image, some electrical lines cross through. At mid-distance, the only real subject in the image is a home or barn. We're looking at the side facing away from the sunrise, so it is nearly pitch black, with detail hard to make out.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
LaPorte County, #Indiana #photography
Color photo, taken during sunrise. We're standing in the middle of a two-lane US highway, looking down the median toward the horizon. Yellow solid/dotted lines shoot down the road, which is mostly black and empty. At the end, we see a pair of headlights pointed our direction. Along the side, trees in silhouette are almost black. The sky above is peach/pink near the horizon, just fading to blue-violet near the top of the image.
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ᴍᴀʀsʜᴀ ᴇsᴛᴇs @marshadraws.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘃𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗹𝗮
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A neighbor on the block organized a trash-pickup today. 4 families showed up. Block looks better. And we've now got a Whatsapp group primed and ready for other activities. Such an easy way to meet people, build community, and organize for bigger things down the road. 10/10, would recommend.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Happy #cycling, Gunter.
Color photo taken through the window of the Grindhouse Cafe in Whiting, Indiana.  My bike is leaned up against a stop sign. The street signs "White Oak Ave" and "119th" street are above the stop sign. On the window I'm shooting through, there's a hand-drawn image of a penguin, labeled "Gunter". The penguin is framed so that he appears to be standing on my saddle, facing. backwards.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
gratuitous sunrise shot #chicago #photography
Color photo taken from a car, looking out the driver's side window, through the side mirror, into the sunrise happening bebhind the car. On the right side of the image, you can se the edge of the car in glass and metallic highlights. In the top/middle of the image, you can see a line of electrical wires/pylons receding toward the horizon. And arching over the left of the image is the outline of the mirror, containing a gradient in the sky from blue at the top to blood orange at the bottom. Below the horizon is the tops of trees in silhouette.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
With the thaw in the weather on Monday, I did my first long ride of the year. Headed down to Whiting via King Drive. I love this church in South Shore. #photography #chicago
Black and white photo staring dead on at a 2-story concrete structure with a long sign across the middle reading, "THE OLD LANDMARK CHURCH OF GOD HOLINESS IN CHRIST."Color photo of a single-family home with empty lots on either sides, a taller but barren tree next to it, and a blanket of white snow filling out the entire foreground around the house. Behind the house, we see the backs of homes and trees on the next block over.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Lower Michigan #chicago #photography
A man rounds a corner in a loading dock, staring out into the open, camera in outstretched hand, looking like he might lost or anxious. A green light bathes the scene in discomfort. The numbers 435 are painted on the brick wall to the man's left, about the same size as he is.
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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Any #chicago / #bikechi people know of somewhere in city limits that does bike repairs before 10 or 11am? Am I the only biker who wakes up early and sometimes needs a worn-out rim or chain replaced before lunchtime?
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