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Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Sir Anish Kapoor, that is the centerpiece of AT&T Plaza at Millennium Park in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The sculpture and AT&T Plaza are located on top of Park Grill, between the Chase Promenade and McCormick Tribune Plaza & Ice Rink. Constructed between 2004 and 2006, the sculpture is nicknamed The Bean because of its shape. Made up of 168 stainless steel plates welded together, its highly polished exterior has no visible seams. It measures 33 by 66 by 42 feet (10 by 20 by 13 m), and weighs 110 short tons (100 t; 98 long tons).
Kapoor's design was inspired by liquid mercury and the sculpture's surface reflects and distorts the city's skyline. Visitors are able to walk around and under Cloud Gate's 12-foot (3.7 m) high arch. On the underside is the "omphalos" (Greek for "navel"), a concave chamber that warps and multiplies reflections. The sculpture builds upon many of Kapoor's artistic themes, and it is popular with tourists as a photo-taking opportunity for its unique reflective properties.
While out on a drive around the neighborhood I noticed these amazing clouds. Thanks to macgrrl84, we've learned these are an example of mammatus, or mammatocumulus clouds.
You can't walk on those streets in the sky.... cumulus clouds over the lower Ebro valley. Seen from the our house in the country.
LOW CLOUDS
Drove my niece to work on the northern end of Las Vegas Blvd. and notice the colors being reflected on the low lying clouds. This was about an hour before sunrise so all the colors are from the buildings below it.
The afternoon sun hides behind clouds. Photo taken in spring 2014.
Admittedly, this image has undergone some "reality enhancement" in Lightroom and Photoshop, but I think that this version better describes my memory of that moment than the original photo.
The high dynamic range of the Nikon D800 made it possible to enhance the shady regions, which otherwise would have been only a silhouette. The difference between the sky and the building is about 5 f-stops, which traditionally would have required HDR and tonal mapping.
The sun rays, which I remember vividly, were barely visible in the original photo, so I enhanced them in Photoshop using a radial blur on a separate layer.
Another action from the Florabella set (Soft Urban with a few tints & vignette. I'm starting to like this one better than my other treated photo.
Thanks again, Shana! :)
I headed out earlier tonight hoping to capture something interesting in the clouds and I think I did!
ISO 400 | 1/40 sec | f/5 | 8mm
My first ever "cloudscape" I never seem to have my camera on me at the right time but there's some cracking Cumulus clouds been building all afternoon so I think I might venture out and see they light up opposite tonights setting sun
Although I over processed, just the formation of the cloud is just eerie. I'm not sure what to make of it.