The local transit authority would like you to know that you cannot use these stairs to enter the El station.

I do less street photography than I would like to, and a lot of it, including the street photography photos I’ve published here, has been of those moments where I see a composition and have to capture it before it goes away. This is something of an eternal photo. Maybe the CTA will clean those stairs sometime, or freshen up those signs. Maybe, just maybe, they did in the last six years! Even if they did: The light, the grime, the rust, the signs will outlive us all.

February 15, 2019. Samsung Galaxy S8+ cell phone, focal length 4.25mm (35mm equivalent: 26mm), f/1.7, 1/120, ISO 64.