South Side Marble by CoreyBlack
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Description
This picture was made on the corner of 95th Street and Longwood Drive, in the Beverly Hills neighborhood of Chicago. Beverly is a fairly large area that dominates a particular stretch of the far South Side. While holding its share of dicey bits, the area is home to a largely middle class African American community. Beverly Hills, as the name implies is affluent, but named for the natural hills in the region--the only natural hills in the greater Chicago area. It was one of the earliest neighborhoods in the United States initially designed with ethnic integration in mind, when it was chartered in 1911.
In typical big-city fashion, neighborhoods can change radically in a short space. Six blocks west of where this picture was taken, you'll enter into the drab, suburban banality of Evergreen Park. A mile east of here is fairly nasty ghetto.
I shot this picture on the atmospherically-interesting afternoon of September 16th 2009.
Comments (10)
bmac62
I knew it Corey! 2009...not a 2010 model car in the photo. OK, so I am kidding but wanted you to know I was inspecting the details of this neighborhood photo. Colorful and interesting. As a flash-in-the-pan two day tourist in Chicago, I haven't seen anything of the southside yet. By reputation, I'm not sure I'd be comfortable there unless being guided by a native like you or Chip:)
auntietk
Love the way the clouds are keeping pace with the traffic, going in the proper direction. It's like a race ... I like the cityscape, but I keep being drawn back to those clouds!!
durleybeachbum
The sky is compelling attention. Your description is fascinating.
flavia49
fantastic shot and sky!
Meisiekind
This could easily have been a neighbourhood here in Johannesburg was it not for the traffic in your image all driving on the wrong side of the road!!! LOL.... Wonderful blue sky day with a mood of "everyone is doing there won thing"... I like this Corey!
beachzz
You have such a knack for taking what seems to be a fairly ordinary foto, and turning into something full of so much life and detail. The sky really makes this shot, gives it a feel of being even bigger than life---this rocks!!
jmb007
bonne photo!
sandra46
wonderful sky, it's parallel to the street! great urban shot, with the 'askance', unbalanced POV!
Chipka
You were in my old neck of the woods--well...sort of! I grew up not too far from there, and seeing this reminds me of how the only thing that really changed in that area of the city are the clouds and the makes of cars. I know exactly where you were standing and exactly what's not really around the area. And I have to say what a surreal experience it is to see Beverly here on Renderosity and not in my gallery! It's like watching a movie and seeing a some big name movie star doing something logical in terms of the movie, but totally illogical in terms of your day to day reality: like, oh, buying a hot dog from a push-cart vendor on a street that's supposed to be busy, but in all actuality, it's that spot behind grocery store where the owner's cute son worked before going off to college...but now I'm rambling. This is a nice shot and I like the vague implication of a fish-eye effect. Those clouds are amazing!
myrrhluz
I love the way you've tilted this! It give it the look of a marble and the feeling that not only could I reach up and touch the sky, but when I did it would be gently convex instead of concave. The people are going about their usual routines and something strange is happening above them. Excellent image and very interesting narrative!