Here, Have Some Photos

I really would have sworn I had more photos of Chicago from MLA, including some of the lake, and of my hotel room and the environs around where I stayed, and of the bus stop (it was near a nice park!), and the river, but my camera seems to have lost them.

There's some sort of data-losing thing sweeping through my life, in fact, what with these lost photos, and my hard drive suffering a fatal crash (resulting in many more lost photos due to tragically incomplete backup), and now the Creature is out of commission for the time being (although there were few photos there). I'm a little worried about what might happen next.

Possibly the apartment is going to catch fire and our wedding photos will burn. I swear, it's as if images are fleeing me. Visual evidence of my history is being erased! Now I can dye my hair black, and no one can prove it wasn't always that way.

In any case, here are pretty much the only photos from Chicago that remained on my camera.

Some handsome buildings near the main hotel:



And here are a couple of rather dramatic, artistically blurry shots from the window of the tower where the AMA reception was held:





Essentially, I have photos of buildings from below in the daytime, and from above at night, and that's it. Honestly, I was carrying that camera all over, and I thought I was doing a better job of capturing at least the cityscape, even if I didn't have many shots of people (and even if it took me a month to actually do anything with them).

But as I said, my photo luck has been bad this month. Good thing I wasn't in charge of documenting anything truly important. (MLA was important, but I wasn't in charge of documenting it, at least not in pictures.)

I do have some nice images of snow-covered trees from last winter, if anyone's interested.