No guest blogger today – and a bit too busy for any fun facts about Chicago or the stuff in the photograph. I do, however, have for you a serene and beautiful photograph of North Avenue Beach, which at aphelion is filled with sunbathing and swimming hoards, turned tundra in the cold of early January....
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Tags: Chicago, Downtown, hancock building, hdr, ice, justin kern, lake michigan, loop, Nikon 14-24mm f/2.8, Nikon D700, photomatix, sears tower, skyline, snow, winter
// “Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.” — Charles Richards As many of you may have noticed, there are more and more images on this Chicago photography blog that are not of Chicago. We pay attention to the comments we receive...
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Friday, September 11, 2009 Posted in Churches and Temples, Cityscapes, Downtown, Goose Island, Grant Park, Interiors, Lakefront, Nighttime, Sunrise, Twilight
// Regular readers will know that I’m a huge fan of wide-angle lenses – to a fault in fact. I’m sure I miss many great details because I always want to get the whole scene in frame. Maybe I’ll learn to get over this, but probably not – in fact whenever I’ve raised a bit...
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Tags: Chicago, chicago river, Downtown, dusk, hancock building, hdr, justin kern, Michigan Avenue, millennium park, morning, night, Nikkor AIS 28mm f/3.5, Nikon D700, photomatix, Sigma 14mm f/3.5, skyline, Sunrise, Sunset, Twilight, winter, Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 fisheye
// The Chicago Board of Trade sits at the southern end of LaSalle in the financial district. To say that it is an oft-photographed building would be an understatement of extreme proportions. Chicago has very few streets that jog or end abruptly and therefore there are only a select few buildings presented with the opportunity...
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Tags: CBOT, Chicago, Chicago Board of Trade, Downtown, dusk, Fountain, hdr, justin kern, LaSalle, night, Nikon D700, photomatix, Sigma 14mm f/3.5, skyline, statue, Twilight
// Have you ever been out somewhere and seen something really cool, like the resplendent Chicago theater framed by the steps leading into the Red Line, only to take our your camera and get something decidedly uncool? Your camera just can’t get the perspective you want? Typically, our solution to this problem is to carry...
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Tags: Chicago, chicago theater, Downtown, hdr, justin kern, night, Nikkor AIS 28mm f/3.5, Nikon D700, photomatix, red line, subway
