Same city- Different Neighborhood.
When we got off the boat, returned from Japan and left Michigan we returned to a city we know, sometimes too well. Chicago is our home base for both adventures close to home and an easy launch to someplace else. Living in the South Loop in an apartment with a spectacular view is giving us a different perspective (literally). Our walks are different, the restaurants are different, the traffic is different. We’re like tourist in our own town.
My camera-carrying walks are really no different than our travels to other cities. There is spectacle, there is the mundane and the curious. And there are walks when the camera is apparently on vacation, seeing nothing at all. These photos are the standouts so far, spanning a winter I hope not to repeat through a wonderful summer. Captured moments, distilled.
Unfortunately a typical downtown scene. Since this was so backlit I editing for drama and grittiness to match the moment.
Protest wraps at the Art Institute
A protest in the dead of winter. With scenes like this I love pictures within pictures. The defiant stance of the dark figure at the horizon.
Love the geometric repetition here. Marina City will never escape the iconic Wilco album cover.
Drama from the deck. Edited for moodiness.
If it is raining or foggy it is a perfect day to take a walk. More drama and fewer people. Amped the fog and elevated the light under the bridge
Love this composition. Make the Cloud Gate feel like an alien force encroaching on the frame.
A bit voyeuristic shot from the deck. the dramatic lighting was hard to pass up.
Another rainy day. Used the looming figures to frame the door way story.
Early in our return I was lamenting there was nothing to take a picture of when I turned down the street to find this car on fire.
A rare square crop capturing morning rush in streams of light.
One of my first taken with the A7CR. Cropped to 16:9 for cinematic drama.
The white slab isolates the people while the dark towers on either side do the framing.
Slowed the shutter to capture the figures as a blur against pattern.
Probably one of the most photographed public works in Chicago.
While I rarely focus on a specific subject the drama of wet pavement and stone was inviting
Another crop using walkers to emphasize scale.
