Archive for January, 2007

Wandering Around Downtown Chicago - Part 4

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

I’ve been busy lately and haven’t been able to post any more series but here’s the next part of my stroll through Chicago’s downtown. The day had started sunny but cold, the streets had been deserted in the morning and around noon, but later, as it became colder and the shadows grew longer (heh heh [...]

Millennium Park - Part 3

Friday, January 19th, 2007

Millennium Park was only one of my destinations that evening. I got it into my head that I must walk all the way to the Planetarium and take a panoramic shot of the Chicago downtown skyline at sunset. The best way I could get there was walking along the lake shore. Unfortunately it wasn’t that [...]

Wandering Around Downtown Chicago - Part 3

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Continuing my journey through Chicago’s downtown area, I made my way along the Chicago River. At one point I came across this bronze statue of a dude, waving his arm around. I don’t know who he is (or rather was) because I didn’t read the inscription. But his arm against a backdrop of glass and [...]

Millennium Park - Part 2

Saturday, January 6th, 2007

Across the road from Millennium Park, along Michigan Avenue, is a tall wall of buildings. Their stone facades and myriad of windows seem daunting at first. Their square geometries are very interesting to the (wannabe) artist.

It seems that streets are the only feature that breaks the seemingly impenetrable wall of glass and [...]

Millennium Park - Part 1

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

I still haven’t finished my previous series and here I am starting yet another series. I just passed through these photos I took in September (when it was still damn hot outside) so I thought I would share some of them. On that particular outing I visited Chicago’s Millennium Park. The weird thing is that [...]