The photo above is from the very first coffee shop I ever went to. I was born in the late 1970’s and have always been drawn to the old architecture of downtown Manhattan. Since I was a kid I have always enjoyed taking photos of the buildings that were home to my family. I started to take more photos while I was in college but I only got started with the pastel colors and lighting. My favorite place to take photos is the vintage coffee shop.
There is a special place in my heart for vintage coffee shops. A lot of them are really small and don’t have many seats, so you have to sit in the back so you can see everything. In those moments when you are looking out at a space full of people, you can almost feel your entire life in front of you. There is a special place in my heart for those moments and for the people who are there.
I think a lot about the people who I photograph. I can’t help but think of all the people who were on the back of my camera one time. The fact is, I remember the back of my camera because it’s so intimate. I’m always looking at my own back of the camera and thinking about the people that were there. I think that is what photography is meant for.
Sometimes when we’re shooting a photo we get to be that person who has a special memory for just one person. In this case, the special memory is of someone I photographed in the past. I want to capture the moment when a stranger I met in a coffee shop sees something beautiful in front of him and is struck by a feeling of recognition. This is the moment when I feel like the camera has met its match.
I think many photographers feel that way when shooting someone that has moved on. Like in the movie “The Notebook” the people who shot the movie, were able to capture the feelings of everyone in the world that had a memory of a specific person. It’s how we should feel when we meet someone we’ve never heard of before.
I know this is a bit of a stretch to some, but I felt that way. When I first started shooting for the Chicago Sun Times, it was always hard to convince people that what I was seeing in front of me was real. It was hard to explain to people that the person they were looking at was not the person they thought they saw. It was hard to communicate the fact that my camera had met its match.
That’s why Chicago Sun Times photographer John Donohue, who started in the late ’90s, has since become one of the most popular photographers in the city. In a time when people are in more and more need of visual entertainment, the Chicago Sun Times has one of the best teams of photographers in the country. They’ve also become famous for making it easy for anyone to take a picture of anything.
Donohue has published some of the coolest photography in Chicago, like portraits of celebrities and some of the most well-known buildings in the city, but I think his best work comes from his personal photography. Donohue has taken me on trips to a number of Chicago’s great coffee shops, all of which he has visited in person. They have different styles, some better than others.
The old school photo shop, which has been around since the 1960s, is definitely one of the most nostalgic in Chicago. Donohue has been doing a lot of remodeling of the space. His most recent work, this month, was a series of portraits of the most famous and iconic Chicago buildings (including the Chicago Theatre and Museum of Science and Industry) in the most original and vintage style.
It’s a great way to show the history of the Chicago area and its architecture, but I have to say that the old photo shop has the best light, and the best of any of the vintage coffee shops. I especially love the light in the back room.