HYDE PARK — The Great Frame Up is featuring a photographer in December who shoots all his photos from the top of a double-decker bus.
Jason Travis will show 30 photos he’s captured as a tour guide atop a double-decker bus.
“When we’re going down Lake Shore Drive, I can balance things so I can entertain the guests and still get a few shots,” Travis said.
Travis’ rig is pretty manageable — it’s just his iPhone 5 and an Instagram account. He said he shoots about 70 photos a day and then edits them at night.
“I like using the phone mostly because of the instant accessibility,” Travis said.
The 32-year-old who grew in up Hyde Park and went to Ray Elementary and Kenwood Academy said he wasn’t particularly interested in photography until taking the job a year ago.
The Columbia College grad has certainly seen some vistas worth a picture. He spent three years working on cruise ships watching the sun set over the Pacific Ocean from a bay on the Alaskan coast.
“I traveled all across the world and saw these amazing things,” Travis said. “And I was taking pictures on the cruise ship of some of the sunsets, but not as intense.”
He said it was only after he returned home to Chicago last year and passed the same buildings over and over as a tour guide that started to notice the subtleties and hone in on photography.
Thirty of Travis’ photos will be up for display at the Great Frame Up, 1418 E. 53rd St., through December.
An opening reception will be held from 6-9 p.m. Friday.
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