The Windy Pixel » Unique, daily photographs of This American Giant.

Chicago is no model city (and I fear perhaps we’ve been cast in a worse light than usual by the pathetic former governor’s trial), but today’s photograph takes advantage of a trick of the viewer’s eye to make it look like a model of a city. I gave this technique a try once before, though...

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Matt, a longtime friend of tWp, suggested I put together a collection of images taken over the last year or so from one of my very favorite photographic spots – the seawall at Fullerton Avenue. I think it is vital to have a photographic haunt or two. Variety and new places are also essential, but...

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Introducing yet another incredible view of the Chicago skyline from the 25th floor of the Tribune Tower. After climbing the many twisting staircases to the 33rd floor (photos to be posted here sometime in the future), I headed back down to the observation deck and pointed the business end of my lens north to get...

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I woke up yesterday to news that a huge fireball had light up the night sky like a Christmas tree. Man I wish I had been doing some kind of timelapse photography during that event! Speaking of timelapse – I set up for my first timelapse, HDR video while in Las Vegas. I got the...

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You’ll notice that I’ve begun to curate more galleries under the “Interact” tab above. The webmasters and I are working on putting together an updated tWp page, and when that is done all these links and such will be immediately available on the sidebar. Until that time, however, just mouse over “Interact” and then check...

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