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More Black Water from Chicago

tratcliff — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:21:07 +0000

I was thinking about that nice black water from yesterday and remembered a cold night in Chicago a while ago with more nice black water… glassy and reflective…

Chicago in the Evening

tratcliff — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:26:31 +0000

This one was shot from the John Hancock building during sunset. I believe I was facing south with this one… Which reminds me… the other day Ethan asked why “south” is called “south”. I did not have a good answer.

Under The Globulus Chicagus

tratcliff — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:12:15 +0000

This may be the dumbest name for a post I have ever made, but I hope to surpass it some day with something more stupider. This was shot in Chicago in the dead of winter, which seems to be most of the time in Chicago. You can still see the frost on the ground there in front of the castle.

The Underground Peoplemover to the International Terminal

tratcliff — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:30:35 +0000

I found this on the way to Hong Kong… so I stopped for a quick shot while security eyed me with suspicion… But they have those cool TSA badges that makes them look all official and everything, but I just ignored them.

A Silent Bridge to the City

tratcliff — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:45:15 +0000

Chicago! You can’t go wrong with photographing this city just before or after it gets dark. All the light from the city casts sort of a matrix-glow up into the sky. It’s always a neat effect and this area around Millennium Park is always a prime area for shooting.

It’s been a while since I posted any shots from Chicago, so I am also posting another one I took several months ago that you may enjoy if you have never seen it.

My Kodak Moment part 1

tratcliff — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:05:34 +0000

The below mobile-phone shot shows one of my Chicago photographs being used for commercial purposes (without my permission) at a Kodak print shop on Hanover street, Edinburgh. It was shot by Paddy Patterson, so I wanted to thank him for sending this. The shot was taken on March 22, 2007 at 1.26pm GMT.

Someone else put this on DIGG (thanks, btw) - you can digg it here: Kodak steals from one of Digg’s favorite photographers

Here is another picture of Chicago below that I took around the same time.

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Chicago from the Air

tratcliff — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:51:10 +0000

This is my favorite shot of Chicago. I was happy to capture a bit of the blue lake and be lucky enough to catch the particolored sunset. This shot is facing one direction and the one below it faces the other direction. The latter was taken about 30 minutes before the upper one.

Crazy Digg Day

tratcliff — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:16:27 +0000

I got on Digg today - that was a nice surprise to get over 150,000 views on a single photograph within just a few hours. Thank you everyone who stopped by or sent along emails! Here is the picture that was “Dugg”:

The Lens of Valpopando

tratcliff — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:50:59 +0000

One of my good photography friends, Valerio, highly recommended that I get this new lens - the Sigma 10-20mm. We spent the weekend together in Napoli and took a bunch of pictures together…we put that set here on Flickr. Here is one of the first shots I have taken with the new lens from Chicago last night; I think this lens is amazing. I look forward to doing some landscapes with it as well. The second picture is one of my favorites with that lens from Valerio… who is one of the most popular photographers on Flickr… here are some of his top shots.

Old Chicago

tratcliff — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:27:37 +0000

Here is a photo experiment… I think it turned out well, albeit unconventional.

Mercury Melting in HDR

tratcliff — Thu, 28 Dec 2006 15:58:16 +0000

Here is the newly famous mirrored “Bean” melting over Chicago.

Big Brother Disapproves of Your Park Actiivity

tratcliff — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 04:00:29 +0000

An Evening in the Park

tratcliff — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:12:20 +0000

It’s probably way too cold now to hang out in Chicago like this, but here was an HDR shot taken about 10 PM at the new concert hall at the park.

Big Brother Approves of your Park Activity

tratcliff — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:55:43 +0000

These things are creepy-cool.

The Great Lake of Chicago

tratcliff — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:23:42 +0000

This was taken with nine exposures on a late summer evening in Chicago. The light made the lake have sort of a Caribbean blue color. It was one of my few trips there where I did not absolutely freeze to death or get shredded by ice crystals in monsoon-strength winds.

Rainy Day in Chicago

tratcliff — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 22:42:58 +0000

I seem to have bad luck with rain in Chicago, and it makes taking pictures kind of difficult. Here is one I grabbed one morning after I got out of the subway.