My Single Reflex

Maybe the most photographed place in Chicago is the Studio Gang Pavilion in the nature preserve on the south end of Lincoln Park Zoo. The design is startling as one approaches it, but it really shines best in its detail. Fiberglass pods cover the bulk of the openings created by warping, bending, and bolting the wood frame. Every angle gives a unique opportunity to capture something new and fresh. This group of photos look particularly nice as abstract wall art and are among my favorite photos from my portfolio. studio gang photographs for sale

Chicago didn't have Spanish Moss...this parasitic plant that hangs from most oak trees here in Florida. When you look straight up at it, it looks like you've approached the speed of light. Or...if you're a fan of Spaceballs...Ludicrous Speed! The early, golden light makes the moss look like cheese stretched of off Pizza the Hut himself.

These photos give away the total Studio Gang Pavilion. It really seems so simple when viewed as a whole, like a kid with Legos could have come up with it, and yet the layers of wood bent in multiple directions, the resin pods, the open ends with the John Hancock building like a target viewed through a scope...it took a remarkable creative to conceive and complete it.

This reminds me of that old sci-fi horror flick about people being replaced by alien duplicates grown in pods...probably called Pod People or something like that. This photo will be the 4th for the silver frame. I've got several more, but these four seem to have a bit of symmetry.

I have this silver frame at the house that's never had anything place in the four image slots. We like the frame but I've never come up with the right four photos to place in it. This little run of Studio Gang Pavilion pictures finally helped me realize that they need to be in the frame.

This is the first photo of the Studio Gang Pavilion at Lincoln Park Zoo that I ever edited. I was still very new to a camera, and really didn't know what I was doing shooting or editing. I think this image had as much to do with me continuing to learn as any I ever took, and it's still one of my favorites.

One of many shots I've taken of the Studio Gang Pavilion at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago. The pavilion is extraordinary in its ability to be interesting as a whole, and as a seemingly infinite numbers of steps down to its smallest detail.