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A section of the downtown Chicago skyline as seen beside the Maggie Daley Park Ice Skating Ribbon and Rock Climbing Walls.
The oldest sections of the "L" started operations in 1892
It has seen millions of people, wars and depressions come and go, and over the decades has developed a personality all it's own.
11:30pm; a certain tense peacefulness hangs in the air.
everyone has their little square on the game board
Watching one another from the corner of our eyes.
I stay on mine and you stay on yours.
My modus operandi is; location, location, location, then wait for an interesting character to augment the scene. Just like fishing.
Sure Chicago has gorgeous architecture and facades, but it's underbelly has beauty as well.
Here I was attracted by the two triangles and deep perspective.
In between lights I would pop out into the street and wait for a break in traffic. Instead I was rewarded by this beautiful angel strolling into frame.
I particularly like the triangle formed by the three people in the shot. The guy on the left is wondering, who's that dude crouching in the intersection?
This proved to be a waiting game for the best composition to present itself. - He sat on his bridge pier beam and I sat upon mine... then these two fine Chaps strolled into my field of view.
the right side composed itself.
my concern was the geometry on the left.
OK, now we wait for something to happen.
Ok, here she comes straight down the alley...
too flat ---- enter our protagonist stage right.
A handsome B&W image, but that romance between the peach and blush blue is too irresistible.
The way they brown the pizza, the way they swirl the cupcake frosting; It's the little things which add to the magic of it all.
His epic shirt is holding it's own against the onslaught of pattern and rhythm.
Wait a minute. Your looking at the date taken and wondering about the "Bad" weather we get in Chicago... Right 😳
Chicago has many absolutely fantastic pizzerias.
All with their own individual deliciousness, but .....
Wow, doesn't get better than this.
7-Eleven Pizza "Chicago style" Mmmmm - mmmmm
Only $7 - of course -----
I was set up to capture a bicyclist coming from the right.
Not a good shot at all.
But wait for it..... here he comes.
Zoom Master saved the moment !!!
These high intensity lights bring a super-real enchantment to an otherwise drab State street....
With crystalline purity they bathe the sullen characters beneath them transforming them into ethereal beings...
I singled out a fragment of the city as a representation of the whole thus allowing the viewer's mind's eye to complete the scenario.
In addition, the detailed beauty of this lighting and shadows give a rather pleasing view of an otherwise grey toned urban vista...
I actually wanted to leave out the Chicago marquee in the lower right and let your brain fill in everything, but that right corner works so nicely to complete the design.
Of no great significance the subject matter's purpose here was to reveal the interplay of light and shade. What I saw at this corner was the beauty of the tonal scheme and design.
It wasn't until I received the print from the lab that I appreciated it's inherent rhythm.
camera: Ricoh AF
film: mono monolit 35mm
Each photo safari I take downtown Chicago I see more and more closed storefronts.
Subjectively I must say that the atmosphere at night has changed as well.
Disposable plastic camera:
800 ISO Amber Tungsten 135mm film. -- Plastic lens.
I had a riot wandering Chicago on this gloomy day with this plastic camera.
Tree lady: At first glance I wished I had caught her framed by that granite wall behind her, but now I like how the edge of that entry is contiguous with her profile and compliments the tree trunk.
and her leg is in direct alignment with that nice white sidewalk line.
I was set up awaiting for the moment when the subway train turns the "Loop" when 'together forever' hurriedly strolled into my field. In one fell swoop my eye balanced it before my mind could react - compose and click..
Perhaps lacking intensity, just a direct honest shot without straining for atmosphere, but still carrying a certain emotion.
Her foot immediately brings to mind Cartier-Bresson's "Man Jumping Over Puddle." foot.
While the loneliness is reminiscent of George Tooker.
Thanks for your Flickr friendship.
Together we made it through the long night of Covid....
How to photograph the Marshall field clock?
Iconic landmarks, the clocks were designed by the firm of Graham, Anderson, Probst and White, for the store's architect D.H. Burnham.
Each clock is made of 7¾ tons of cast bronze.
The face of the clock is 46" across, the minute hand is 27" and the hour hand is 20½" long. The clock is impulse operated from a master timepiece located in the store. The timepiece is checked twice daily with the Arlington time signal and corrects the clocks every hour.
Photographed over the century countless times, I wanted to present it not as a clock, but as part of the history of our city. Melding it into the city-scape as a face in the crowd.
The clock you see was installed at State and Washington in 1907 and as time moves "One Way" - second by second, minute by minute it is suddenly 2023.
I love how that "one way" sign becomes crucial in the narrative and an anchor for the deep perspective.
camera: Ricoh FF-3 AF (1982)
film: Kono Monolit 35mm
Got a couple of shots of him playing, but they are just a guy playing his clarinet on the corner.....
So I stood and just waited on that corner... and a visual narrative began to unfold; he stopped playing and the two men were discussing things when in walked Mr. dynamism. click. framed, composed, and a lot of serendipity.
...and thank you open truck for balancing it off...
I take my inspiration from my friends: Jim ajimhill and Randy myoldpostcards ----
and Tigersight Photography I did get in trouble breaking the curfew. 😩
Inspired by the photography of Jeff Walls; wherein he combined many images to construct on of his enormous 'Cibachrome Duratrans' photographs.
above is a composite of 3 photos;
the red door, the window scene, the lady walking street scene.
Notice the diagonal line top left is not contiguous with the line extending behind the window.
removed a lady sitting next to her white bag and added the 'soup' sign....
I took 3 shots in total, but where the lady with the red bag appeared the girl in the window was looking away.
and the door was needed for depth and balance
Photographers spend big big bucks for perfect crisp lenses.
Give me a 118 year old piece of glass and I'm happy.
Camera: 1905 Kodak No. 3 Model A folding Red Bellows Brownie.
Shutter F.P.K. Automatic 1/45 at f/16
Lens: meniscus achromat.
film: portra 400 / 120
scene: downtown Chicago
Kodak No. 2 Bulls-eye Model 1896.
Spruce / Cherry body.
Bausch & Lomb - Rapid Rectilinear lens.
Ilford HP5 plus 400 film 120
Straight out of the camera --NO post-editing.
This camera was looked down upon by the photography establishment. No large ground glass focus screen, but instead just a rabbit hole viewfinder. Fixed lens and shutter. Yes. it has three primative aperture settings, but really they make no difference. - The rest is history. These types of cameras opened up the world of image making to all creative visual artists.
Pictrorialism: There is no standard definition of the term, but in general it refers to a style in which the photographer has somehow manipulated what would otherwise be a straightforward photograph as a means of creating an image rather than simply recording it. Typically, a pictorial photograph appears to lack a sharp focus.
Disposable plastic camera:
800 ISO Amber Tungsten 135mm film. -- Plastic lens.
I had a riot wandering Chicago on this gloomy day with this plastic camera.
Located in Chicago's Millennium Park, Cloud Gate, aka "The Bean," is a public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor that has become one of the city's most photographed attractions since its completion in 2006. Measuring 33 by 66 by 42 feet and weighing about 100 tons, the sculpture was constructed using 168 stainless steel plates that are welded together, with a highly polished reflective surface that has no visible seams. This view looks west toward Michigan Avenue on a warm summer evening near sundown in 2019.
HBM
Located in Chicago's Millennium Park, Cloud Gate, aka "The Bean," is a public sculpture by artist Anish Kapoor that has become one of the city's most photographed attractions since its completion in 2006. That makes this shot--with a section of Chicago skyline reflected in the sculpture's stainless steel surface--a perfect fit for Cliche Saturday.
HCS