{"id":924,"date":"2011-07-18T00:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T05:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/?p=924"},"modified":"2018-12-17T18:37:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:37:07","slug":"photographing-the-bloomingdale-trail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/18\/photographing-the-bloomingdale-trail\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing The Bloomingdale Trail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/4634291145\/\" title=\"Boys Starting a Fight by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3393\/4634291145_b42a9a7b9c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Boys Starting a Fight\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Since 2009 I&#8217;ve been working on a series of photographs documenting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomingdaletrail.org\/\">Bloomingdale Trail<\/a>, a disused elevated rail line in Chicago that is on its way to becoming a linear park. <\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t complete the project until at least sometime next year, but I will be contributing six of the photographs to a large group show at the end of the month. The show, &#8220;Reframing Ruin: a Prelude to the Bloomingdale Trail,&#8221; opens from 7pm-11pm on Friday, July 29 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/milwaukeeavenueartsfestival.org\/\">Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival<\/a>. (More details are available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/event.php?eid=166998270035125\">on facebook<\/a>.) A diverse group of people is contributing to the event, and I&#8217;m looking forward to seeing the full exhibition.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t published many photographs from this project, so I&#8217;ve included few images from the ongoing series here.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/4635513499\/\" title=\"Bloomingdale Trail Entrance by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4033\/4635513499_436f43877a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Bloomingdale Trail Entrance\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/4690269644\/\" title=\"IMG_9216_7 by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4043\/4690269644_3eb0d24f0e.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"IMG_9216_7\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/4689653121\/\" title=\"IMG_9319 by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4042\/4689653121_634c97901c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"IMG_9319\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/4708635086\/\" title=\"Abutting the Trail by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1296\/4708635086_70ec78f8a6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Abutting the Trail\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/5240205748\/\" title=\"Father and Son by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5206\/5240205748_78a5a24ce6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Father and Son\" border=\"0\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/3467120807\/\" title=\"The Bloomingdale Trail at Night by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3245\/3467120807_ce5641880f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"The Bloomingdale Trail at Night\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2009 I&#8217;ve been working on a series of photographs documenting the Bloomingdale Trail, a disused elevated rail line in Chicago that is on its way to becoming a linear park. I won&#8217;t complete the project until at least sometime next year, but I will be contributing six of the photographs to a large group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[228,227,10,85,233,32,146,232,231,230,30,229],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photograph","tag-bloomingdale","tag-bloomingdale-trail","tag-chicago","tag-exhibition","tag-friends-of-the-bloomingdale-trail","tag-group-show","tag-illinois","tag-milwaukee-avenue-arts-festival","tag-project","tag-rails-to-trails","tag-show","tag-trail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFuNp-eU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4053,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}