Here’s another scene that stopped me in my tracks. For some years, the large plaza across the street from the office building I worked in had a series of advertising statues. They were dumb and garish and tacky.

That plaza is adjacent to Chicago’s Riverwalk, where some construction was taking place. A lot of cranes have counterweights that are just big, heavy squares, but whoever designed the cranes being used at the construction site… maybe they really were a videogame fan, maybe they were going for a unique look, maybe they were just eccentric.

Anyway, there’s a guy with a sweater listening to Lincoln as he gestures with his hat toward the alien descending from the heavens; there is no other story this photo could tell, and the title explains why I love this photo.

May 19, 2017. Samsung Galaxy S8+ cell phone, focal length 4.25mm (35mm equivalent: 26mm), f/1.7, 1/230, ISO 50.