For maybe a little too long, I lived in a third-floor apartment ambiguously between Chicago’s Andersonville and Edgewater neighborhoods. It was a nice, big place, and my downstairs neighbors were pretty cool. Mostly, I loved the semi-enclosed back porch. That porch was pretty generously sized, and while there was framing for a window, the landlord (who built the porch in his basement workshop) knew that I didn’t even really want a screen. It was nice to feel like it was connected to open space.

This isn’t a technically good picture per se, but it’s what I saw for 15 years as I sat in some relatively comfortable chair and read the night away with my cat on my lap. I liked taking pictures of some of those architectural and vernacular details at night and some of those photos will turn up here eventually.

June 12, 2014. LG Nexus 5 cell phone, 4mm focal length (35mm equivalent: 30mm), f/2.4, 1/9, ISO 2,450.