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DDOD Photos

Name: DDOD Photos
Address: Chicago, IL, US
Telephone: (312)3204461

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Since the day I picked up a camera, it's been my mission to share the world through my lens. Since the day I picked up my first camera, photography quickly became a passion of mine that would never go away. There was something about the idea of being able to capture the world around me through the lens of a camera and sharing my work with others that pulled me in quickly. Whether it's the hustle and bustle of the people in Chicago or the changing of the seasons, the breathtaking cityscape, the beauty of nature, and so much more, there's really nothing you can't capture in a photo. From the equipment I use to the company that prints my photos, every detail in my process has been perfected so you can shop with confidence knowing I stand behind every order. Feel free to look around and welcome to my virtual gallery. I truly hope you enjoy my work.

10/27/2026

How deep does Big John go?

The Hancock Center rises 100 stories, and one of its caissons reaches 191 feet underground, the deepest ever sunk in Chicago. When it was completed in 1969, the dark, massive tower was controversial. Today it is one of the city's best-loved landmarks.

Photographed from the base, looking straight up the corner.

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10/24/2026

LaSalle Street is lined with stone columns; there is a reason.

This is 120 S LaSalle, which opened in 1928 as the State Bank of Chicago building. The architects, Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, also designed the Federal Reserve Bank at 230 and the building at 231, and their firm finished 208 after Daniel Burnham's death. In those days, a bank wanted you to feel your money was safe, and a row of columns says it quietly.

Watch the person walking past at the bottom of the frame. That is how tall this street really is.

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10/20/2026

Why is it called Fourth Presbyterian? It was not the fourth Presbyterian church in Chicago. In 1871, the congregation picked the lowest number not yet in use.

The church on Michigan Avenue was dedicated in 1914, with a sanctuary by Ralph Adams Cram and a courtyard and cloister by Howard Van Doren Shaw. These stone arches were photographed on a drizzly Chicago day.

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10/19/2026

I spent more than twenty years practicing Optometry inside the Rookery Building in Chicago, and I never stopped looking up at its light court. In 1905 Frank Lloyd Wright redesigned that space and gave it new light fixtures. This is one of the frames I photographed there, and it now opens my 2027 Chicago in Black and White wall calendar. A year of the city, one month at a time. LINK IN BIO

10/17/2026

Founded in 1856, the Chicago Historical Society lost its first building and most of its collection in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The Chicago History Museum building you see today opened in 1932 at Clark Street and North Avenue.

This view through one of its grand arches, with a crystal chandelier, fluted columns, and the year 1776 carved over the far doorway. Shot in black and white.

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10/13/2026

The US time zones were settled on this corner in Chicago.

Before 1883, there were more than 100 different local times across the country; railroads were trying to run schedules through all of them. So their managers met at the Grand Pacific Hotel, stood where the Central Standard Building stands today at Jackson and LaSalle.

On October 11, 1883, they adopted a plan to divide the country into four time zones, each one hour apart. It took effect on Sunday, November 18, 1883, known as the Day of Two Noons.

The 1924 building that replaced the hotel took its name from that moment, and a small plaque on Jackson Street still marks it. I found the lobby empty early on a Sunday morning, a long row of columns running toward a clock in the distance, and shot it in black and white.

Did you know time zones started in Chicago?

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10/09/2026

Chicago, doubled.

From the bridge at South Pond in Lincoln Park, the John Hancock Center rises above the trees and settles into the water below. Fun fact: this tower was planned as one of two, but a private club next door refused to sell its land, so Chicago got just one Big John.

Which view of the Chicago skyline is your favorite?

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10/07/2026

Some buildings change jobs. The architecture stays the same.

208 South LaSalle was built between 1911 and 1914, designed by Daniel Burnham, with a three-story colonnade of Doric columns marking the entrance. When I first started practicing Optometry just across the street at the Rookery, this building was full of trading firms, traders in their little blazers moving fast every single morning. The trading floor eventually slowed, and the building moved on to a new chapter, but the colonnade never changed.

I photographed it black and white, letting the columns lead the eye straight down LaSalle to the Board of Trade in the distance. As an Optometrist turned photographer, this is exactly the kind of image I go looking for, real history holding its shape, long after the business that built it has moved on.

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Chicago, IL

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	9am - 5pm
Sunday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

(312)3204461

Website

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