Work took me to Jacksonville on Sunday for a server migration and when I was done I figured I might as well cruise around looking for a place to photograph. I have been in the frame of mind lately that if I am traveling at all to take a camera with me. A lot of my recent photos lately have been from outside Springfield. I found myself at the square and there was a really cool theater I had seen before on Illinois Stories.
I also happened upon the site of the former CR’s restaurant. My dad used to work there when it was called Burger Chef while he was back home from college. It then turned into CR’s and now it is closed. The inside is mostly gutted now with a rubber tote overflowing with rain. It is a sad site indeed. The pictures there were just depressing so I opted for the theater pic this week to move the project into a positive space after Week 5’s “Vice.”
I would really like to get out at some better times to get some of these photos. This was shot early afternoon on a cloudy day. I have nice even light but I would rather have caught this during magic hour with the lights turned on and a colorful sky off to the west but I have gotten into a routine of going out mid day on a weekend. Oh well, I have 46 more attempts ahead of me.