Posts Tagged ‘USA’
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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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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Walking zone
While walking from the Hotel 71 towards the Lake Shore drive, along the river side walk which leads towards a beach front. I found this location which was joggers track, calm peaceful road to walk. A stranger couple was passing by. A wonderful walking zone.
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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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Curves from the beaches
Top view of the Chicago Michigan Lake – seems like a beach with curves 
. An aerial view with an exciting crowd hugging the festival season – makes it even more better. There was an Air show happening that day. The most I could do is capture these curves from the top view.
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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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Shed some fuel
Most people in US are urban in mood and eco friendly too. Expensive cab prices are reasons for people to make efforts and shed some fuel and make a great eco drive.
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Floor red
The bed of fruits borne on the trees during July at Chicago – which fell off the tree on the ground as a bed of red beads.
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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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EcoDrive
A lovely framing – with the shade of sun. The casual mode of transport at different places in and around downtown Chicago.
This place was inside the University of Chicago,
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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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Stars in the Night
While at Chicago – when we walked towards the Lake Shore Drive, there was a long stretch of urban trail and all I could imagine was to capture the glitter on the glamorous roadway paved for urban movement. The magic was to experiment a long shutter photograph and capture a trail of lights. I really was excited to capture this entire series without a tripod. Some how managed to do this by keeping my camera on the footpath at the edge of the road.
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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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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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Stand out (still inside)
Street Photography requires a sense of knowing what is attractive publicly – since everything on streets is widely and visually accepted – either in a positive way or a negative way. While going through the streets on Michigan Avenue at Chicago downtown, I found a retail outlet designed with a wonderful eye to understand the best thing that makes sense to people walking along the streets. It was really attractive. The window design was apt to the culture on the streets.
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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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