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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.

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Jim Lindstrom @jimlindstrom.bsky.social · Jan 10
I took some time this week to collect a few albums of my favorite shots from 2024-ish. jimlindstrom.com/portfolio/in... #photography #NightPhotography #chicago
Jim Lindstrom's Photography
Several Albums of My Favorite Work. Night Landscapes, Beautiful Ruin, Industry, Etc.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Skyway bridge at dawn. 10/26. #chicago #photography
Color photo taken through a windshield. We're on I-90, driving west, approaching the skyway bridge. The highway takes up the bottom third of the frame. It is dawn. The top of the sky is blue like morning sky. But just above the horizon, there's still a peach/orange band stretching across the sky. Streetlights are still lit, dot-dot-dot'ing the path to the bridge, which is visible in the center of bridge.
October 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Sunrise today. Just back this side of the IL-IN border. #chicago #photography
Color photo of a car's driver side mirror. The road is visible behind it but not well illuminated. The black metallic frame of the mirror is visible in shadow. In the mirror's reflection, we can see the side of the car, itself reflecting the mottled clouds in sunrise colors, and then a direct reflection of the clouds in the main part of the mirror. Shades of peach at the bottom (where the sun is rising) and purple/blue/grays in the clouds above.
October 26, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Dunes Hwy. 5:03am. #nwindiana #photography
Black and white photo taken while driving down a two-lane highway. Looking straight down our lane toward the horizon. The camera is shaky, so all the lines are double or triple exposed with some blurriness. On the left are some silhouetted trees, in black. The pre-dawn sky is dark gray. On the right, we see some power lines in blurry outline. From the top right to the center of the image is an unexplained, lightning bolt-shaped weird white streak.
October 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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ICE was crawling all over the neighborhood today. Copters, masks, bullying, disappearances. I'm proud of this city for how much people came together, organized, and tried to help each other out. I'm sad at how scared the kids are. Current mood.... #chicago
Photo of one of the murals behind the Horween Leather facility on Elston and Armitage. Wide, cinematic crop. On right, a woman's head in a motorcycle helmet, (or maybe spacesuit?) looks left. Her expression is tough to read. Maybe weary. On the left, her hand--palm upward, in a black leather glove.
October 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Stormy industrial scene. Vet's Park, 5:35am. #chicago #photography #NightPhotography
Color photo. Taken through a rain-slicked car windshield at night. The scene is the back side of a grain elevator. On the right, we see one of the elevator's giant concrete cylinders. Next to it are two metal posts in a lattice or support. In the center-left of the frame is a kiosk next to a weigh station. The kiosk captures some warm reflected light. It's got a flag fluttering in the storm's winds. Between the kiosk and the metal posts, a light emits some orange light, which is crazily spread around by the rain on the window and perhaps some camera jitter. The scene has the feel of an oil painting.
October 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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Wolf Lake. Yesterday AM. My happy place. #chicago #photography
Black and white photo of a landscape. We're on a narrow bike path that begins at the bottom of the frame and weaves back/forth to the horizon. On either side of the path is a strip of scraggly grass/brush and beyond that, the lake. At the horizon, a two prominent electrical pylons stand, with a half dozen more at half or a third their height across the horizon. Above, the sky is milky gray, and faintly we see some power lines coming in/out of the haze. At the top left, the image is slightly brighter, suggesting a just-out-of-frame sun. The overall vibe is nostalgic and murky and other-worldly.
October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Took some time this morning to be in nature #chicago #photography
Color photo of greenery, with (maybe? it's hard to tell?) a single tree centered in the image. But very harsh highlights on the top right (the sun) and very harsh shadows on the bottom make the image difficult to decipher. Also, there are parts of the image that are dreamily out of focus or blurred and a couple of light flares--all of which give a dreamy, memory feel versus a straight documentary capture.
October 16, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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This lone, absurdly low basketball hoop -- on a very sparsely populated street on Gary's outskirts -- makes me happy and sad at the same time #photography #nwindiana
Color, portrait-orientation photo of a basketball backboard and hoop attached to a wooden utility pole. The pole is in some scraggly green grass on the side of a narrow paved but unmarked road. We can see a single house 100 meters down on the right. The hoop is absurdly low (maybe 3 ft high). The backboard is plywood that is weather-worn.
October 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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The storm howls around her #chicago #photography #BlackAndWhite
Black and white photo taken in an alley in Chicago. In the top right, a woman's face (a mural on the corner of a building) looks up and to the right. Around her the image swirls and blurs, making it hard to tell exactly what's going on. The bottom left of the image appears almost black and looks like the unlit back side of an image (facing us). Between it and the mural, a wooden utility pole is semi-visible amdst the swirl. Power/communication lines vaguely seem to connect to/from it. In the background, they sky seems messy and angry, like a dust storm is howling by.
October 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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DEAD →
Black and white photo, looking across a street at some kind of single-story structure nestled in scraggly brush/foliage. The building has a horizontal strip (maybe darker bricks in the middle third) with a diamond design centered in it. Below that, someone has faintly spray-painted the word "DEAD" and in darker and higher-contrast, an arrow pointing right. At the edge of the frame on the right we see a two story home, with a second-floor window just visible along the image's edge.
October 8, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Wicker Park, during a dinnertime pizza run. #chicago #photography
A biker captured midway across the Damen/Milwaukee/North Ave intersection, with the blue line behind him and the art deco building, The Robey, dominating the background and top half of the image.
September 17, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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I'm struggling with what I want to say about the Methodist Campground in Des Plaines. Melancholy. Otherworldly. Simultaneously frozen in and ravaged by time.
Photo of a small white frame house. Leaning noticeably to the left. Behind it a larger building is visible with a pointed peak at the center of its roof and clerestory Windows
September 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Oz Park. The Chosen Tree, apparently. #chicago #photography
A black and white photo taken in a park, centered on a tree about 30 feet into the frame. The tress is in a grassy clearing, and it casting harsh shadows toward the camera, on the ground. Above the tree, light streams down into the canopy from nearly straight overhead, and illuminates dust kicked up by a nearby leaf blower that makes the atmosphere ethereal and sublime.
August 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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4/1/25. Illinois at Sunset. #photography #illinois
Color photography of the sun setting over a rural landscape. Electrical poles and wires trail out into the distance toward the sun, where they're lost in the brightness and the haze. In the foreground, we can see finger prints and dirt texture applied over the scene because of the Amtrak window through which this shot was taken.
August 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Haven't taken many photos lately, but have been itching to get out there again at some point. Here's an older one. #chicago #photography #NightPhotography #BlackAndWhite
An hommage to Ikko Narahara's photo, "Shadow of car driving through desert, Arizona". This is a black-and-white photo of a nighttime scene looking up Lincoln Ave in Chicago. The main element is a bus in the center, racing away from us, with light streaks from its rear lights and the slow exposure. Nearer to us, on the right edge, is the outline of the metal frame of a car parked on the side of the road. Across the road, we see the near edge of some other parked cars lit up in high contrast. Behind them, one of the building fronts shows a 5-10 story-high mural of Abe Lincoln, gazing out over the scene from his sunken eye sockets.
August 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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We went up to Evanston to watch fireworks on the beach last night. Couldn't have been a lovelier sunset. #photography #illinois
Color photo looking out onto Lake Michigan. In the foreground, on the left half of the image, we see the white painted wood of a lifeguard chair, with a pink/red number 13 painted on it. On the right side, in the bottom half, we see the sand of the beach meting the tide, with a few very small waves rolling in. From the right side, we see the the southern barrier of the beach projecting out into the water. And right above it, some salmon-colored hues of sunset meet the fading blue evening sky.
July 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Has anybody biked between #milwaukee and #chicago? I'm planning to take amtrak up around 7pm and do the ride back overnight. (Only time I can reliably fit in long rides these days.) I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions on routes north of Racine. (I have biked in MKE and racine<--->chi before.)
July 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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I went out for a post-sunset ride to Gary last night. The lakefront, under the last glimmers of sunset, was bustling. After that it got very peaceful and the temperature was just perfect. #bikechi #cycling #photography #NightPhotography #chicago
Color photo taken on the lake front trail, near Webster Ave, looking west across LSD (where some northbound cars are streaking across the exposure) and at the last hints of pink in a sunset. Color photo taken south of Oak St Beach, looking northwest. In the foregorund, a trio of girls sit on the concrete talking and watching the lake. In front of them some motion-blurred people walk past. On the left, we see lincoln park and streeterville lakefront highrises. In center, at the distance, we see some peach-colored sunset hues. Color photo taken in Calumet Park, looking up at a trio of electrical pylons. The one in the foreground is wooden and appears taller and more the subject. It has a lone bit of wire draping off its arm toward the gorund. Behind it, two much larger (but smaller in 2D, because further away) pylons carry dozens of electrical lines. In the background, a milky white layer of clouds envelops the scene. Photo taken in Calumet Park. In the foreground, some trees and shrubbery in verdant shades of green catch light from a streetlamp off frame to the left which is casting some rays of light into the scene. Behind them, several electrical pylons loom over the scene.
July 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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April 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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11/9/24. Indian Ridge Marsh. #chicago #photography
Black and white photo taken at night. We're standing on a street, looking at a home head-on. There is a single story home, with one of the lights on. The bottom of the home is occluded by a wooden fence that starts near the left edge of the frame and extends across and off the right edge. The left edge of the frame is semi-mysteriously/ominously blank. In the background we see some trees and not much else.
April 26, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Miller Beach. 1/17/25. #photography #indiana
We're back in January of this year. There's fresh snow on the ground. We're at the northern terminus of Sullivan St, in Gary Indiana, where the road meets the sand and then the sand meets Lake Michigan. We're looking up a path over the dune, where tan-and-white snow/sand covers the bottom third of the photo, and uniformly milky, overcast skies cover the top chunk, and in between, at the horizon, a sliver of emerald colored water shows over the top of the dune.
April 22, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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My neighbor dog Greta, looking very regal
A Boston terrier with brown head save a white stripe down the middle gazed out of a window pane in a stone home. She is in stark contrast against a mostly black background. Next to her, giant (footlong?), lush fern leaves fill in the bottom left of the frame.
April 16, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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4 random snaps from bike rides in the last week. #chicago #indiana #photography
Taken in Marktown, Indiana. A close-up of a yellow home, showing a window with white trim. In the window are two small-ish (still kinda kitten-ey) black and white cats staring out in a way that I can only assume is actively conspiratorial. Taken east of East Chicago, Indiana, near the shore line of Lake Michigan. In an open field (open being relative. there is some scraggly brush), a concrete silo structure stands a few hundred yards away. In the foreground, a paved trail begins and waves in a winding S curve toward the structure. A skater rides across the scene in the skate park under the Kennedy off of Logan Ave, in Chicago. Random graffiti under the Kennedy Expressway overpass over Western Ave.
April 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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This is my favorite post in a biking subreddit about post long-ride recovery.

I went for a long-ish ride this morning. This is definitely my plan. #cycling
Screenshot of a Reddit post from 3 years ago, by user "Prudent-Proposal1943". They say "Do what we all do. Consume a bunch of fluids and junk calories, laze about all day. Ride tomorrow. If you want real nutrition advice, there must be a triathlon sub somewhere."
April 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM