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Art's is one of them. I arrived before sunrise on a Sunday, when Chicago is still asleep and the street out front belongs to nobody. On a weekday morning that same curb is a wall of traffic. I set up across the lot and waited for the moment the sky and the neon reached the same brightness. That window lasts perhaps ten minutes. The red trim does the work; the yellow windows do the rest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/bd16f104-f646-4c16-96c3-608d15f72dfc/20250918_Diner+Grill-1.jpg Collections - Zero Michelin Stars Home of the Slinger The sign says it all, and it has been saying it for a very long time. Open 24 hours, home of the Slinger, a plate that is less a meal than a dare. I photographed it head-on and dead level, the way you would photograph a monument, because that is what it is. Blue hour gave me just enough light to separate the roofline from the trees, and the windows glowed like a television left on in an empty room. Nobody came in or out while I worked. At that hour, nobody needed to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/2448d444-03f7-43dd-9538-53efe788808b/20250918_Diner+Grill-2.jpg Collections - Zero Michelin Stars Open All Night I walked around the corner for a second look, and the second look is often the truer one. From this angle the diner stops being a facade and becomes a building with a neighborhood around it: the houses leaning in, the apartment block looming behind, the streetlight standing guard. Places like this survive because the neighbors keep showing up at two in the morning. There is a lesson in that for anyone building anything. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/372ed23e-b2be-4832-81c0-d8c57988af92/Steak+%26+Egger-1.jpg Collections - Zero Michelin Stars Steak & Egger On a warm summer night, the Steak & Egger glows like a lantern someone forgot to put out. 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The fieldstone did the rest. It is the kind of place that does not need to tell you how long it has been there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/a517ee27-ff48-486c-9c72-8870ef85d646/A%26W-1.jpg Collections - Zero Michelin Stars Root Beer at Dusk Few signs in America are understood as instantly as the orange and brown of an A&W. This one sits at the edge of the trees, the canopy lit, a couple of pickups parked under it as if they had been there since the Eisenhower administration. I set up on the far side of the road to get the long, low perspective, then waited, and waited again, until I was sure no headlights would cross the frame. The fall color in the trees was a gift I had not planned for. https://www.jameskittendorf.com/collections/concretejungle monthly 0.5 2026-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/5c7450dc-0091-4a4b-b535-82925cbee84a/Traffic+from+Grand+Plaza.jpg Collections - Concrete Jungle Gridlock Chicago is a grid, and from high enough above, the grid becomes a living diagram. I made this from a high balcony in River North, leaning further over the railing than my insurance company would like, looking straight down on an intersection at rush hour. Every headlight is someone late for something. The building in the middle falls away into the street like a cliff face. Cities are best understood from the ground. They are best admired from above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/0ab977c7-f60c-4c83-8010-32a352e7fbba/20180918_Cloud+Gate-1.jpg Collections - Concrete Jungle Violet Hour Cloud Gate is the most photographed object in Chicago, which makes it one of the hardest to photograph well. Everyone has the same picture. I came after the crowds thinned, when low cloud caught the city's lights and turned the sky a strange, bruised violet. I kept the sculpture low in the frame and let the skyline dominate. The Bean is a mirror. On a night like this, it was simply reflecting a city that was showing off. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/4c9d14be-df8c-478a-bb4d-5dd26c61eb9b/20180918_Cloud+Gate-2.jpg Collections - Concrete Jungle Blue Diamond Later the same night the clouds cleared, and the city gave me a completely different photograph from almost the same spot. The diamond-topped tower lit up in blue, the red spire beside it, and the Bean below, holding all of it in its skin. I shot wide and low to let the plaza stretch out in front. Some photographs are made by waiting for something to happen. This one was made by waiting for everything to stop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/8653259d-e2aa-4fbf-b3c5-19c55ed13304/20210122_Chicago+West+From+GP+Roof.jpg Collections - Concrete Jungle Clear Path From the roof, a single avenue runs west in a straight line until it disappears into the dark. Chicago's grid was laid out with almost military discipline, and at night the discipline becomes visible: lanes of light running to the horizon. It was January and bitterly cold. My fingers stopped working before the camera did. The city did not care. It never does, which is one of the things I love about it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/fa1c4d04-df49-400c-a67d-6c4c8ed3b87d/20220616_Lightning+Over+Trump+Tower.jpg Collections - Concrete Jungle High Voltage There is no plan for a photograph like this, only preparation. A summer storm rolled across the city, and I set up with the camera locked down and the shutter open, hoping the sky would do the rest. Most frames were empty. This one was not. The bolt split around the tower like a hand reaching for it. They say lightning never strikes the same place twice. Tall buildings are the exception, and Chicago has more than its share. https://www.jameskittendorf.com/collections/americana monthly 0.5 2025-10-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/3fb224b1-d08d-4196-80b5-4f5d0d707e34/20220704_Fireworks+at+Davie+Burns%27s.jpg Collections - Americana Shock & Awe Every Fourth of July, the lake becomes a stage. I set up behind a row of neighbors at the water's edge, silhouetted against the show. They are not more interesting than the fireworks, but they are what turns a light show into a memory. The trick is an exposure long enough to draw the bursts without blurring the audience into ghosts. I lost count of the misses. This one caught a shell opening directly overhead, and everyone in the frame leaning back at the same moment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/52db651c-68eb-4683-a45f-28afd6cc3309/20231015+_Garden+Theater+Frankfort-2.jpg Collections - Americana Matinee I came back to the Garden for a second look and found what the first one was missing: life. An old green Ford pickup rolled through the frame just as I pressed the shutter, a little soft from the motion, exactly the kind of truck that would have parked out front on opening night. You cannot stage a moment like this. You can only stand on the right corner long enough for it to arrive. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/b61e4d0b-bfd8-4ebd-94db-c32db281450f/20231015_Emu+Food+Stand+Frankfort.jpg Collections - Americana Tastes Like Chicken Northern Michigan is full of roadside stands: cherries, sweet corn, firewood, honor-system jars of cash. This one sells emu. Burgers, steaks and, according to the hand-painted signs, a few other things I did not have the courage to ask about. I photographed it straight on, the way you would a storefront in the city, because it deserves the same respect. The fall color behind it was at its peak. I did not buy anything. 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This one wandered away from the herd, stood in the long grass, and gave me the kind of look normally reserved for photographers who have overstayed their welcome. Iceland's weather changes every ten minutes; I had perhaps two before the cloud swallowed the mountains behind him. Working with animals is about patience, then speed. You wait for an hour, and the photograph takes a second. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/399e9c7e-b72e-444a-a3d9-034ce0e0f0b8/Icelandic+Horse-2.jpg Collections - Wild & Tame Valhalla In Norse myth, Valhalla is the great hall where the worthy rest. Looking at this white horse beneath that brooding table mountain, it felt like the right address. The Icelandic horse has been kept pure for more than a thousand years. No other horses are allowed into the country, and once one leaves, it can never return. That fact stayed with me as I worked. This is not just an animal in a field. It is a direct line to the Vikings who brought its ancestors here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/16b98bf2-164d-4dee-ad15-51f2a0075eb4/Icelandic+Horse-5.jpg Collections - Wild & Tame Punk Rock Not every subject wants to be beautiful. This one wanted to be interesting, and I was happy to oblige. I got closer than is sensible, close enough to hear him breathing, and kept the mountains soft and distant so nothing would compete with that mane. Icelandic horses grow a double coat to survive the winter, and in a stiff wind it does exactly what you see here. No styling, no stylist. Just weather. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/453da264-2253-4f55-9f51-29bcf91e4595/Icelandic+Horse-3.jpeg Collections - Wild & Tame Look Inward The closer you get, the less a photograph is about the animal and the more it is about you. I filled the frame with an eye, a forelock and a sweep of neck, and let everything else fall away. Horses can see almost all the way around themselves; one of the few places they cannot see is directly in front of their nose. I was standing in it. There is trust in that, and I do not take it lightly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/fff3c283-f0b6-41e6-9d3a-0e249ac944d9/Icelandic+Horse-4.jpg Collections - Wild & Tame Keepers of the Ridge Sometimes the subject is small and the story is large. Two horses stood on a ridge of moss-covered lava, side by side, keeping watch over nothing in particular. I resisted every urge to get closer. The emptiness of the sky is the point; it is what Iceland feels like when you are standing in it. I waited for their silhouettes to line up as one shape, then a little longer for them to separate just enough to read as two. They obliged, eventually. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/3c675e1a-bc50-43f5-9e4a-3e53c4a30e1a/Black+Swan+London+B%26W.jpeg Collections - Wild & Tame The Godfather of The Serpentine Black swans are native to Australia, but this one carried himself on the Serpentine as if he held the deeds to Hyde Park. He cruised past the tourists and their bread, ignored the pigeons, and stopped only when he was sure he had my attention. I kept the frame tight on the neck and the water so the ripples would do the work. In black and white the bird becomes almost architectural. He seemed to approve. Then he turned and left, without paying. https://www.jameskittendorf.com/collections/ourworld monthly 0.5 2026-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/17c3c1b8-8ba0-4d2c-92b1-3a089d3ac642/Sko%CC%81gafoss+1.JPG Collections - Our World The Curtain Skógafoss drops about sixty meters off what was once the coastline of southern Iceland, and it is loud enough to end any conversation. Legend says a Viking named Þrasi hid a chest of gold behind it. Plenty have looked; nobody has found it. I got there very early, before the first tour bus arrived, and stood well back on the black gravel; any closer and the spray would have ended the day for my camera. A long shutter turned the water to silk. The waterfall did not notice me. That is how it should be. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/b5e6b7ec-19c4-4859-8536-f2ef8f674536/Route+54+Western+Region.jpeg Collections - Our World Route 54, Western Region Iceland's Route 54 runs out along the Snæfellsnes peninsula, a place locals call Iceland in miniature. Roads here are built for function, not drama, but the land provides the drama for free. I set up in the middle of the road, which on a quiet Icelandic highway is safer than it sounds, and framed it so the lines led straight into the mountain like an arrow. The clouds were moving fast overhead, but the mountain held its ground and never once disappeared. In Iceland, that is a small miracle. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/fab978e2-083f-45a9-b3cc-a1d901f1ec10/20231015_Frankfort+Lighthouse.jpg Collections - Our World Low Ceiling Frankfort's lighthouse stands at the end of a long concrete pier, and on most days it is the obvious subject. On this October afternoon it was a supporting actor. A front had pressed the clouds down until they sat almost on the water, and the lake beneath them had turned a cold, bottle-green chop. I kept the light small and far away and gave most of the frame to the sky. The pier leads the eye out; the weather pushes it back. A lone gull at the top of the frame was the only thing moving with any confidence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/5c06b600-19af-4a80-81a3-cdc08ec5db5f/20210422_Northerly+Island+Breakwall.jpg Collections - Our World Stacks on Stacks Andreas Gursky's Rhine II reduces a river to a few horizontal bands of grass, water and sky, and it changed how I think about landscapes. I had it in mind on Chicago's lakefront at Northerly Island, once an airport and now a park ringed by breakwalls of limestone blocks. I came in April, when the low sun turned the stone the color of honey and the lake went a deep, flat blue. Two lines of stone, one line of grass, two bands of water, edge to edge. Sometimes the best compositions are just good arithmetic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/85e82e45-e464-41a3-a3f6-a8da81c0b676/20250512_South+Carolina+Highway.jpg Collections - Our World Dante's Peak Somewhere on a South Carolina highway in May, a thunderhead rose over the trees like the opening scene of a disaster movie, which is how this photograph got its name. The road ran straight at it, guardrail to guardrail, and for a moment there was no traffic in either direction. I had time for just a few frames before a pickup filled the gap. The storm never came. It just stood on the horizon, posing, and then quietly fell apart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/8e07e682-8090-4876-8818-3bec5ca6e2d5/20221125_Ledgview+Park+Woods.jpg Collections - Our World Watcher's Woods In a Wisconsin forest in late November, after the leaves have fallen and before the snow arrives, the woods become something else entirely. The trunks stand in rows like an audience that has been waiting a long time for the show to start. I left the trail and walked in until it disappeared behind me, then stopped where the trees seemed to close ranks. The floor was copper, the light was flat, and nothing moved. It is the most watched I have ever felt in an empty place. https://www.jameskittendorf.com/collections/theaters monthly 0.5 2025-09-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/1bcf47af-4ecb-4bee-8874-c6315c424e97/20261002_The+Bay+Theater+-+Suttons+Bay%2C+MI.jpg Collections - Now Showing The Bay The Bay has been the brightest thing on Suttons Bay's main street for generations. On an October night the town goes quiet early, which suits a photographer. I wanted the facade square and symmetrical, a portrait rather than a snapshot, so I waited until the sidewalk emptied and the sky went to deep navy. The flag on the roof barely moved. Some buildings are photographed. This one simply sat for me. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/5d944d4e-95c4-4a67-953d-66600cdcc462/20231015+_Garden+Theater+Frankfort-1.jpg Collections - Now Showing Twin Billing Most theaters are photographed at night, when the marquee does the talking. I wanted the Garden in daylight, plain and honest, the brickwork and the twin signs doing what they were designed to do: catch the eye of anyone driving through downtown Frankfort. I set up across the street, camera dead center and level, and waited for a gap in the traffic. Frankfort is a small town with a big lake on one side and a quiet main street on the other. That afternoon, both were on my side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/511714d2-0ad3-4634-be1f-143c6ac78b34/20260624_Hi-Road+Drive-In+1+-+Kenton%2C+OH.jpeg Collections - Now Showing Summer in Kenton The drive-in is the most optimistic building in America. It assumes good weather, a full tank of gas, and a family willing to sit in a car through two features. I wasn't looking for the Hi-Road. I came across it by chance on a long drive through Ohio, in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by nothing but farmland. A June sky was doing its best impression of a painting. I pulled over, shot it wide and centered, and let the clouds carry the top of the frame. Nothing here was designed to be photographed. That is exactly why it photographs so well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/3398093f-0af5-4439-b232-24b288e3ab9a/20260624_Hi-Road+Drive-In+2+-+Kenton%2C+OH.jpeg Collections - Now Showing Into the Sun I walked a few yards and turned the camera straight into the sun, which every manual tells you not to do. The manuals are usually right. Here, the light slipping past the marquee gave the scene a haze that felt more like memory than record, the way you remember summer nights at the drive-in rather than the way they actually were. The orange cones were the one modern intrusion. I left them in. Honesty matters, even in nostalgia. https://www.jameskittendorf.com/collections/gasstations monthly 0.5 2026-10-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/11593f1b-6590-4368-a47f-09c3a9e3533c/20231015_Blarney+Castle+Beulah.jpg Collections - Fill 'er Up Off Season Blarney Castle has been fueling northern Michigan for generations, and this little EZ Mart in Beulah still wears the family name above the door, though it has been closed for years. No pumps, no customers, no one to turn the lights on. Under a heavy October sky it reads less like a gas station and more like a memorial to every road trip that ever stopped here. Most people drive past without a second look. That is exactly why I stopped. https://www.jameskittendorf.com/collections/horsepower monthly 0.5 2026-11-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/51349375-a876-4401-aca4-e0a6c750cd30/IMG_0096.jpg Collections - Horsepower The Grand Tour There is a particular kind of road that seems made for a car like this. Empty, unhurried, bending gently toward nothing in particular. We found ours around four in the afternoon, when the sun was still high enough to light the whole landscape but low enough to start carving shadows into the bodywork. Then I did what any sensible photographer does. I stood in the middle of it. The E-Type is not a car to be photographed from above. Its beauty lives in the long hood and that low, wide stance, and the only way to do it justice is to meet it head-on. On an open road, that requires a good deal of trust between photographer and driver. He came at me several times. On the last pass he was smiling, and that was the frame. Black and white strips away the paint and leaves only the shape. This one left the factory in 1968. More than half a century on, the shape is still enough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68ca34abf750857542af7702/83a7e148-4349-4829-8c07-b3901eb9349d/IMG_0120.jpg Collections - Horsepower Go Speed Racer The E-Type was advertised at 150 miles an hour when it launched in 1961, which made it one of the fastest production cars in the world. This photograph was taken at a rather more civilized speed. The technique is panning: a slow shutter, the camera swung in time with the car, so the background smears into motion and the car stays sharp. It takes many attempts, and most go in the bin. The driver was patient. The grin was entirely his own.