Chicago
The Chicago skyline is one of the world's most beautiful, but it's rarely seen from the west side, facing east. This was taken near the United Center as dusk closed in.
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Brooke
I get to spend my life with this woman. She's fun, funny, pretty, and people love her just as much as she loves people. I don't spend too much time doing shooting people (unlike Bruce Willis in Last Man Standing), but she definitely makes it easy!
Brooke and Jamie
The fox (for alliteration's sake) in the foreground...my beautiful wife, Brooke. The babe in the background...my dear friend, Jamie. You may note the Studio Gang Pavilion as the setting. Yes, it's a great place for portrait sessions. Any time you visit, you'll probably see an engagement photo shoot or two going on...maybe even a wedding session. In any case, it's easy to make beautiful pictures when one has those three elements with which to work.
Balconies
If you ever want to take the Chicago Architectural Tour all day, for about 10 bucks, buy an all day pass for the Water Taxi. Sure, there's no guide telling you the names of the buildings (which would be helpful for this photo), or sharing stories about the architects and builders (also unknowns on the Water Taxi version), but you can travel from 18th Street near Chinatown all the way up through downtown and back as many times as you like. You'll get to know the pilots and crew, and probably a few folks who wonder why they're seeing you at 5:30 pm when they rode with you at 8:00 am on their way to work. All that time gives you some excellent opportunities to shoot buildings in myriad ways. Go early and stay late enough and you'll get some great color reflecting in the buildings, as well.
The Rest of the Gang (Studio)
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.
Alien Pods
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.
Studio Gang Pavilion
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.
Wooden Waves
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.
Studio Gang Pavilion
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.
Chicago skyline
Chicago...you were magnificent today, but God's skyline...and waterline...still win.
