Posts Tagged ‘Architecture’
Top View
Wonder view of a blooming City scape – the city of skyscrapers. This picture was taken from the Signature Room at the 95th floor – that place where we had gone for brunch with an exciting view of the city, atop the John Hancock center.
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Resting again
Most of my travel shots, should comprise of a solo bench, I fantasy such romantic hotspots. A single bench on a green carpet, definitely invites good memories for tons of romantic couples. Some sweet memories, some bitter ones, some wild memories, some hotter too.
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Trump Tower Chicago
One of the toughest time I had was to capture the Trump Tower at Chicago (just bang opposite my stay at Hotel 71) – using my 18-55 mm lens. I tried a lot of angles to manage doing the wide angle zoom enough to handle the telephoto lens to capture it – but all in vain. The maximum I could do was to take a tilt shift approach by framing the trump tower into a diagonal north west or north east frame orientation. But still, some how those pics were also not the best of the amazing shots I wanted to click. They were just so ordinary. I later happened to borrow a 15mm fish eye lens from Simon Kirby, one of my colleagues at Hostway. Whom I met at our Developer conference in Chicago. His lens managed to do it just in a jiffy. The framing was perfect. The picture quality was perfect too – and the tower just scaled to fit inside my photo. What a sigh of relief.
A real large description of this is available at this link :Trump Tower Chicago
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Watch my back
All the buildings are a must watch, these are really well appreciated architecture buildings, carved with precision and accuracy to make a wonderful face to uplift the status of a skyline city scape. Chicago has a really great list of well known tall towers. A few not so large famous buildings are also worth looking at.
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Glass for a toast
The bar at the Signature Room below John Hancock at Chicago was the best view for the entire City of Chicago. A city of wild winds and a city of sky scrapers. This was a Bar around the corner towards the lounge in the North-West direction.
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Painted Green
This was the University of Chicago where Hanjoo had taken me and Saurabh, the presence of the solitude and peace in this area was amazing. All I could evaluate is the signs of prosperity even in the leaves on the walls.
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Lost in the window grid – skip the wall counter
A regular window architecture shows a very common grid placement on the structure of this building. You need to see the framing of this pattern. Every angle shall get a great shot. I have not even tried this one in mono chrome and multiple other design options.
Skip the Wall climber – there could be hot spots trailed out for him to repeat climb.
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Cloud Gate at Millennium Park
A marvellous piece of artwork, Cloud Gate – referred to by locals as “The Bean”, for obvious reasons – it is a public sculpture by talented British artist Anish Kapoor. This place at the Millennium Park was an exciting spot for shutterbugs. The monument was chosen from 30 different artists. Also this was scheduled to go public during 2004 – but somehow the launch got delayed and this entire thing is made of pure steel plates and polished to maintain the shine. Entire surface is glossy and shines like a mercury droplet fallen from the sky. The maintenance of this architecture is huge and the concave structure at the bottom center is called the navel. You can see 1000s of people clicking photographs each day. This is been recognized locally and globally both. An amazing piece of artwork.
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Skylines of Chicago
The most exciting part of being in a well established city is to see the growth of concrete jungles. And the best example would be to watch Chicago grow in size – touch the sky.
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Face the sky
A lovely architectural structure, in the downtown Chicago area. This architecture was made in 19th century and was really an appealing framework made of IRON. Every one should observe the detailing while building such places.
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Peaceful abode
Peaceful abode shot at USA, while I was visiting the HareRama HareKrishna temple in Detroit.
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Textured Wall at Maharana Pratap Museum
Textured wall at the MahaRana Pratap museum.
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Where is my bird?
A bird sitting on the edge of the doom at “Saheliyon ki baadi”, where there were 4 birds on each corner of the doom. Where is my bird? Anyone see it?
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Skycraper City Shot
These are a year old captures. A lovely walk towards the river side at Chicago and I could see the sun setting down with the skyscraper making a wonderful city scape. Silhouette shot made a good composition. Hope you guys like it.
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Sky scraper with glass bricks
There were many such monuments around the urbanized city of Chigaco. A worth view if you walk through the streets and aspire to watch up towards the sky. These tall sky scrapers remind you of the giant that sits in each city to make it work bigger and better and shape the future of our tomorrow. Yet another Sky scraper with glass bricks on a busy street in Chicago.
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