This photo is one of my many attempts to pretend that I live in a big city instead of a small town. Don’t get me wrong: I adore Carrboro and Chapel Hill, as well as all the amenities that the Triangle (Raleigh, Durham) and the Triad (Winston-Salem, Greensboro) afford me, but sometimes it feels like a combination of living in a dedicated university town (true) and endless suburban sprawl (also unfortunately true), and I miss that really urban feel that comes from living in a city. Sometimes I miss Chicago; not enough to move back, and more and more only from a photographer’s eye (plus there’s my college BFF, of whom I am moderately fond; where by moderately I mean immensely), but — I miss it. I’m not sure that intense city street photography is really my bag, ultimately, but I can’t know: it’s not something that I can particularly pursue in my day-to-day life, because there’s only so many undergrads on Franklin Street you can look at before you just want to smack them all in the face.