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Till we ride again

  • By Rob Wehmeier
  • Estimated read time 1 min read
  • October 9, 2020

 I love riding the train into the city. 

I have 4 choices to get in, 6+ if I drive a bit. The driving part may seem weird to mention but to fellow rail aficionados, this will make sense.  The easiest is The Rock because of its schedule and proximity but I love to travel over to Homewood and pick up the Metra Electric since it terminates at Randolf. 

I like Randolf because it’s easy to get to the Art Institute and central to a photo-rich environment.  I also like going to Homewood since it’s near where I grew up in Flossmoor.  When I was young my mother and I would take our trips to the city on this line.  We would go downtown to shop, visit my dentist in the Field Annex Building, and my mother would get her hair done… A different time.  In those early days, the cars were single level, dark green, weird-smelling, with stiff rattan woven seats.

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My name is Rob. My journey into photography began in the early 1970s, inspired by my older brother as he developed and printed black-and-white photographs in our basement darkroom. After a challenging eighth-grade trip to Washington, D.C., with a malfunctioning Kodak Instamatic 100, I was motivated to work a long, hot summer to earn enough money for my first camera, an Olympus OM-1. In 1986, while studying at Valparaiso University, I embarked on my photography career. For over 38 years, I have worked with both commercial and retail clients, driven by my passion for this art form.

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I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonably call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous. - Aaron Siskind, 1955

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