Some friends and I are downtown after an outdoor concert, walking into the Loop to catch a train home. Jackson Drive is closed to traffic, so we’re walking in the center of the street. The bridge crests over commuter rail tracks and, as we reach the top of the crest, I see this composition right in front of me, waiting for me, and I have to tell my friends, “Oh. Sorry, guys. I have to get this.” All the color of the buildings — Metropolitan Building on the left, Sears Tower in the back right, and the Railway Exchange Building that Motorola is pretending to claim in the right foreground — and the streetlights combine perfectly with that deepening dusk sky and the moon and Venus nestled perfectly over Jackson Drive. (When astronomical objects are very close to each other, it’s called a conjunction.)

July 15, 2018. Samsung S8+ cell phone, 4.25mm focal length (35mm equivalent: 26mm), f/1.7, 1/30, ISO 160.