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After an evening of Humphrey Bogart and too many Czech beers, Chip and I went for one of our typical nocturnal meanderings. Perhaps it was artistic inspiration, or maybe I just couldn't stand up anymore, but I decided to lay on the sidewalk and point my camera skyward. It was quite late and so still that you could hear the elderly traffic signal at Broadway and Catalpa clunking and groaning through its cycle. I became intrigued and decided to photograph the thing from this peculiar angle with the hulking and gothic Cathedral of Saint Ita looming in the background.
This picture was made at about 3 am, on June 20, 2009.
Comments (11)
Chipka
I remember that night! I think that Pilsner Urquel is one of those things that makes Chicago entertaining...especially since...well...it's Czech Beer. Pivo! I love that stuff...and it's even better to actually drink it AND see a cathedral I'll never go into unless I'm taking moody pictures. This turned out incredibly well. It's highly surreal, and I love the way that the intensity of the light makes Saint Ita's look almost...well...superimposed. Funny how that cathedral keeps popping up (though it hasn't made it into one of my posts yet.) The POV is weird. It doesn't look like you're laying down, drooped partly over the curb. It looks more like a bug's eye view of some bizarre landscape. Great work
durleybeachbum
Inspired composition! It's incredibly powerful and the lurid colours add to the weirdness.
Grego_Sheen
Yeah! Thats cool, the POV makes that it dont looks static!
Well done man!
Have a good day,
Grego.
auntietk
This is brilliant! Such an ordinary thing, to see a signal pole and a building, but you've turned it into a surreal experience, filled with wonder and ... well, gosh ... I just can't stop looking at it!!
thecytron
Coooooooooooooooool visual FX!
LovelyPoetess
Most excellent! And I'm sure no one in Chicago thought your laying down under the signal light too bizarre either. Wonderful inspiration, and don't just blame it on the beer. : )
beachzz
OMG, I'm gonna get arrested one of these days, cuz your fotos totally inspire me to look for some great POV's and angles and ideas--this is AWESOME!! It also completely makes me want to get there and hang with you guys--picture this: late one night, after well, whatever finds its way into our systems, and BAM!! there's this place, who knows what, and all of us find some different way of seeing it. You're on the ground, Chip's probably writing a story, Tara's finding one little piece of something and I find the thing with the most color. Then the cops come and we try and explain ourselves.......
MrsRatbag
This makes for a wonderful POV; excellent capture!
jeanebean
This is a great POV. The old walk sign reminds me of an old derelict space station. Welcome to Star Trec. Gives me the feeling of floating in space.
MagikUnicorn
GOOD EYES CO0OL POV
elfin12u
Almost the same point of view I seen soo many times, while crawling home from the Thursday night summer concerts. I've never had the camera with me, but even if I had, I doubt I would've had the presence or ability to take the shot. Laying on your back at 3am,.......cool stuff!!