Sky Scraper

Gallery: POP PhotosPosted February 3, 201347 views5 comments

111 South Wacker Drive: Hopefully this will be non-offensive and G-Rated.

We went into the city last Spring, April, to visit The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where my wife, Carol went, and we spent the day in the Impressionist wing.

But before that, I took this picture of what I believe to be an example of the architecture inspired by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who ushered in the glass-and-steel minimialst movement that dominates the Chicago skyline. He also did the Farnsworth House for physician Edith Farnsworth which I have photographed and maybe will post some of them here sometime.

But we've gone through a cold spell here in Chicagoland, and I dug through some old images to try to find one that blended cold colors with the promise of Spring.

Pentax K-5, Tamron 17-50mm at 45mm, ISO 100, 1/200, polarizing filter. Manual, hand-held, image stabilization. I was going for the idea of the building scraping the color of the sky and for the vanishing point.

Comments

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Comment posted by Jerry Marella on February 3, 2013 at 4:53 PM

I think you accomplished what you wanted, John. The blue sky is picked up throughout the building and the vanishing point looks good. The only thing I wish for is more density at the bottom. Maybe burn down the greens in the floweriing tree and the building. My eye keeps getting pulled down there.

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Comment posted by John Clulow on February 3, 2013 at 5:08 PM

Thanks for your ideas, Jerry, but the greens would not likely be combustible, and I know the white building isn't since it is made of stone. Nonetheless, I take your point

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Comment posted by Jerry Marella on February 3, 2013 at 5:53 PM

It's Chicago..... anything can be burned down.

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Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on February 9, 2013 at 7:40 PM

I like it, John. I never was one to feel the eye should be glued to the principal subject, unmoving and captive. Perhaps a little less of the shrubbery, solely for balance.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on February 10, 2013 at 1:37 PM

The blue on blue with the white blossoms really make this pop. Very well done.

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