Posted on October 11th, 2007
Untitled #7907
Location: Chicago, IL - Millennium Park
Posted on September 27th, 2007
Newlyweds at Cloud Gate
Location: Chicago, IL - Millennium Park
One of the big attractions at Chicago’s Millennium Park is the Cloud Gate. If you’re unfamiliar with Cloud Gate, here’s a description from the official site:
Cloud Gate is British artist Anish Kapoor’s first public outdoor work installed in the United States. The 110-ton elliptical sculpture is forged of a seamless series of highly polished stainless steel plates, which reflect the city’s famous skyline and the clouds above. A 12-foot-high arch provides a “gate” to the concave chamber beneath the sculpture, inviting visitors to touch its mirror-like surface and see their image reflected back from a variety of perspectives.
Inspired by liquid mercury, the sculpture is among the largest of its kind in the world, measuring 66-feet long by 33-feet high. Cloud Gate sits upon the At&T Plaza, which was made possible by a gift from AT&T.
“What I wanted to do in Millennium Park is make something that would engage the Chicago skyline…so that one will see the clouds kind of floating in, with those very tall buildings reflected in the work. And then, since it is in the form of a gate, the participant, the viewer, will be able to enter into this very deep chamber that does, in a way, the same thing to one’s reflection as the exterior of the piece is doing to the reflection of the city around.” -Anish Kapoor
These newlyweds were doing some pictures on the day we were there.
Posted on September 25th, 2007
Crown Fountain Kid
Location: Chicago, IL - Millennium Park
Another shot from Crown Fountain, in Millennium Park, in Chicago.
Posted on September 24th, 2007
American Travel
Location: Chicago, IL
On our recent trip to the Midwest, this was where we stayed and ate breakfast on our first night. It wasn’t the most glamorous of settings, but it was fine, with exception of being directly in the flight path of O’Hare Airport.
Posted on September 21st, 2007
Crown Fountain Kids
Location: Chicago, IL - Millennium Park
This is Crown Fountain, in Millennium Park, in Chicago. The kids (and some adults) just love to play in the water.
Posted on September 10th, 2007
Butterfly #1
Location: Chicago, IL - Grant Park
While in Chicago we stopped by Grant Park a few times. I’ve learned that Butterflies can be extremely difficult to sneak-up on.
Posted on September 9th, 2007
We’re Back
Location: Chicago, IL - Museum of Science and Industry
We’re back from vacation. We had a good time, but it’s good to be home. We visited Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan. We spent much more time in the car than we originally planned, but I still found a little time to shoot.
If you think the image above looks a little odd, you would be correct. It’s not actually Chicago, it’s a model of chicago that was displayed in the Museum of Science and Industry (in Chicago).
I’ll be posting images from our trip as I go through them.
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