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I love that I have clients in downtown Chicago, it gives me an excuse to walk around in the city a few times per year! I needed to be at the client at 8am, but that means either leaving early or sitting in traffic. So I chose leaving early, parking, and then walking around for 45 minutes to take photos, which is the perfect start to my day!

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Here’s 2 strategies to capturing light trails: the pre-COVID way; I find a cool spot, setup up my tripod (first few images), and capture cars as they pass by; or, mount my tripod in my car and then took a series of 15-30 second images from the passenger seat (second set of images).

Things I learned from this photo adventure:

1. Windshields are dirty, even after you’ve cleaned them.
2. Programming my camera’s wired remote was much easier than I expected; I should have tried it long ago.
3. Roads, even the ones we think are smooth, are actually VERY BUMPY.
4. If you can’t do it the old way, try doing it backwards.