Events

Sunrise over Lake Michigan: April 1993, Canon EOS Rebel using Kodachrome 64, exposure unrecorded, approximately here.

The British Museum: 11 February 2001, Kodak DC-4800 at ISO-100, 1/180 at f/2.8, 6mm, here.

Dusty Baker walks from the mound to the dugout at Wrigley Field for the last time as manager of the Cubs: 1 October 2006, ISO-200, 1/800 at f/6.3, 200mm, here.

It's impressive, isn't it, that four of the last seven Illinois governors earned felony convictions and jail time? Rod Blagojevich was today found guilty on 17 of 20 counts. From the Trib: This marks the second time in less than a year that the 54-year-old Blagojevich, the only Illinois chief executive ever impeached and ousted from office, had been convicted of a crime. The jury at his first trial last summer found him guilty of lying to theFBI, though that panel deadlocked on all the other counts....

Scotland, on the Kyle of Lochalsh train: 23 June 1992, Kodachrome 64, Canon T-90 with Tamron 35-210mm f/4.5-5.6, exposure unrecorded, probably about here.

Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) in the Chicago Pride Parade this afternoon: ISO-200, 1/800 at 4/5.6, 250mm, here. I've got more photos from the event up on SmugMug.

In honor of last night's historic law in the Empire State: 25 July 1984, Kodachrome 64, exposure unrecorded, 50mm, here (I think).

Last night the New York Senate passed a same-sex marriage law making the state the sixth to legalize it and effectively doubling the population of SSM-legal jurisdictions. Connecticut, D.C., Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont now allow same-sex marriage; civil unions or domestic partnerships are recognized in California, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin (to greater or lesser extent). One part of the country lurches into the 21st...

St. Michael's Monestery, Kiev, Ukraine: 9 May 2009, Canon 20D, ISO-200, 1/1000 at f/8, 200mm, here.

Fallows justly slams Rep. Eric Cantor (R-OH): A petulant demonstration to the rest of the world that we can't meet the baseline obligation we expect of any two-bit duchy -- that it will face its financial problems and honor its sovereign debt -- would be a big, damaging step in the wrong direction. Good for John Boehner in recognizing that more than his own ambitions are at stake here. If the default actually comes, and markets panic, and interest rates for everything shoot up, keep the courageous Rep....