Winnetka's Business District and Dwyer Park at Night

While walking home from school with my camera and 50mm f/1.8 lens, I took 

an alternative route and photographed street lamps. I noticed the brightly lit Dutch

 architecture of Winnetka's business district piercing through Dwyer Park, and stood in 

the snow on the curb to compose landscape shots of the buildings shaded by the out-of-focus

 park. The buildings seemed unique, and I tried to isolate them but also integrate them

 into the sprawling nightscape.

Winnetka is quaint, but it's sort of elitist. Specifically, country club elitist. As I took 

these shots, a few cars slowed to see what a teenager with a bag and a mysterious device 

in his hand could possibly be doing at this time at night, especially in the wealthier part of 

one of the wealthiest suburbs in the country. I mean I guess it's suspicious, and that explains 

why no one has gotten these shots before. Unfortunately, as a product of this pristine and

 sheltered enclave on the lake, I feel as though I have a duty to capture the distinct character 

of Winnetka-- not through galas and community events, as most North Shore publications try to,

 but through it's landscape.

Winnetka

Taken in February 2013