View From the 99th Floor ~ Southeast by bmac62
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This is the fourth view from the 99th Floor of the Sears Tower, Chicago.
Here, beginning with the domed building on the left (out on the point in the lake) we have the Adler Planatarium, to the right, the next domed building is the Shedd Aquarium, then The Field Museum (very large rectangular building). The Field Museum is home to "Sue", the world's largest T.Rex.
So much to see...so little time to see it. May have to make a return trip to Chicago next year.
Thanks for stopping by,
Bill:)
Previous three shots:
1. Looking North
2. Looking Northeast
3. Looking East
Comments (37)
clbsmiley
WOW~!~WOW My birthplace... But left there when I was a baby!
mermaid
oh yes a fine view and like the colors, the blue building, the red and whitbuildings with lots of green versus the lake
Buffalo1
A fine view on the continuing 360* tour. The large brown brick building in the center foreground is the famous Chicago Hilton Towers. The peninsula in the background was once the downtown general avaiton airport called Meigs Field.
dbrv6
Great perspective and capture. Interesting how it can be hard to recognize a place you have been from a high vantage point.
debbielove
So many things! so little time! Another fabulous view, Bill. Great colours..... well done. Rob.
anahata.c
it's so nice to see these shots from a photographer's eyes rather than from a tourist office's eyes...you caught the real sweep of this vista, as you did in the other shots as well. This vista allows you more open space. You're looking here at 19th C. 'grand' planning (done by Burnham), to be sure that the center of the city opens up to huge vistas and massive public buildings—thus the Field Museum, Planetarium, etc, and the harbor inlet, the big field with baseball diamonds, etc etc. Big boulevards were planned to make traveling these areas "grand" (and hopefully slow); and the city spread out from this center in straight & diagonal lines as in spokes of a wheel. And this plan holds to this day for the most part. It's a rather pompous vision, but it has a real presence & beauty, and it does work. And you can see the stately old hotels (the line of bldgs in the foreground, ctr), which welcomed visitors on Michigan Ave, and you can see bits of the South Loop. You caught a nice angled view of it, not symmetry-ized as some tourist shots often are; and a nice lay of the land as it angles its way into the Lake. Fine work Bill, and another terrific shot in this series.
anaber
I´ve just seen this photo and the previous you did... yet, I read all about them from you...and i think i got a real idea...and what can i say?: Quite Beautiful. I wished be there. I love Chicago. Thank you!!