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  • St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago: Invasion of the BORG

    St. Patrick’s Day in Chicago: Invasion of the BORG

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    C.P. Plunkett
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    For the first time in years, I headed downtown for the St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Chicago on Saturday morning, my ’07 Nikon Coolpix in hand to capture the revelry. Most famously, it kicks off with the dyeing of the Chicago River by the local plumbers union, a tradition started over 60 years ago in…

  • Embracing Limitations: My New Point And Shoot Project

    Embracing Limitations: My New Point And Shoot Project

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    C.P. Plunkett
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    “The enemy of art is the absence of limitations.” That’s a quote attributed to Orson Welles speaking in the context of filmmaking. A rewording in the affirmative sense would be, “The ally of art is the presence of limitations.” For filmmaking that’s essentially budget. For photographers, that budget has essentially been the camera and print,…