Peek Shures.

So I went to those sites that were on the sheet and they were pretty cool. Quite honestly, I don't think they were anything special. Sure, they're good for people who already know the city and who are working with the city. But if someone who didn't know Chicago was looking at them, I think they'd be slightly bored. Except for the first website: www.revealingchicago.org. I actually liked the pictures on that website. The pictures to me were more engaging. And then for some of them, they gave a little background. For example, the picture of the boat dying the Chicago River green, there was a little paragraph telling the story about how that tradition was started, and even how it was altered a bit. And the picture with the Chicago Correctional Facility, it gave a little tidbit of information I didn't know: it's built in a triangular shape so that the halls that need to be patrolled aren't too long. That website was fun for me to look at; I kept anticipating the next picture. The other websites were boring to me and I just sped through the pictures, basically.

If I were to take a whole bunch of pictures of the city, I would want to take more pictures of the people--people interacting with each other and with the city. I think it's so interesting to see how people act differently even if they're in the exact same spot, you know? It kind of goes along with what one of my classmates said in class (I don't know her name...sorry!!) about watching people and thinking about What's that person's situation?, What's it feel like being that person walking down that street?. When she said that, I was in total agreement; I do the same thing all the time. So I would've liked to take pictures of that because it would enable me to hold onto those observations. The pictures of the building specific to the city are cool, so I'd probably do some of that, too. But to me, the people are always the essence of a neighborhood, so I would be sure to capture that.