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I don't know what the building on the right is--I just know I nearly fell over backwards getting this shot. The one on the left is our hotel, the Westin. But most amazing, check out Chip's** foto of this same building---I can't believe we got almost the same view.
**cloudscraper
Comments (25)
onnetz
Great tone and pov.
bazza
Wow looks great superb POV well done!!
Meisiekind
Incredible shot Marilyn! I love the light! I just talked to Tara and I was staying in the Westin on the river when I visited Chicago a few years back!!
bmac62
Morning Marilyn, After sneaking a look at Chip's photo...you've got the John Hancock building here:) The architecture of Chicago is very special. You've illustrated the point perfectly here.
Alex_Antonov
Excellent!
THROBBE
Great shot!!!
odie
Just amazing, Marilyn. Do you know that this angle reminds me of Margarget Bourke-White's pic of the Chrysler building? Two diff. cities, I know but - Neato! and the B&W does the trick.
pakled
funnily enough, it's Starfleet Communications headquarters (or at least this is the building they used in on of the Voyager episodes...;)
MrsRatbag
Excellent POV & I do love it in B&W, you can really feel the height!
auntietk
Oh man, if I'd known we were right across the street from Starfleet HQ, I would have been FAR more inclined to go inside! LOL! I'm still trying to get over the fact that they park 12 stories up in that thing. (The culture shock lingers.) Great capture!
thecytron
Great view!
AndreiR
I almost hear that scraping sound... Great minimalistic composition!
frankie96
Great POV..and one can never stop marveling at the ability we have to build things such as this...
pauldeleu
Nice shot.
Alz2008
Wonderful capture and POV...
awjay
excellent
durleybeachbum
Looks great in monochrome!
Buffalo1
Bill (bmac62) is correct. I'm glad you got this excellent pic of the northside tall-boy as we went to Sears Tower on the westside of downtown on our trip.
goodoleboy
Amazing! Especially the exterior horizontal, vertical and crisscross bracing, Marilyn! Love the POV, perspective and Captain of the Sky ambiance.
Chipka
WOW! You made this brutal, tapering monstrosity look REALLY awesome! I like Tara's comment about Starfleet HQ...back in the day, me and my friends LaTonya, Pam, and Cyrille called it "the Mothership" for reasons that escape me now. I think it had something to do with the way the darn thing looks when you're on Lake Shore Drive heading south! At any rate, this is wonderfully done, and for as much as I love your color shots (they're always superb) you've really done something in presenting this in black and white! The details are astounding! And...just...WOW...I live in this city and I've never seen the John Hancock tower like this. Fantastic.
danapommet
Great capture and a perfect B&W shot. Love all the crisscrossing support beams. Dana
myrrhluz
Wonderful POV. It looks great in B&W. I like the glow around the top.
elfin14doaks
I couldn't believe it when you guys told me they parked cars up in there. This is cool what you did with it. Both you and Chip had a really awesome angle.
CoreyBlack
The iconic Jonh Hancock Center. A brief bio in typical Corey style: Designed by Fazlur Khan for Skidmore, Owings & Merril in 1965, it opened in 1969. It is 100 stories high and stands 1,506 feet tall including the antennas. The building contains over 700 condos, a very expensive restaurant on the 95th floor, an over priced observation deck on the 94th floor, the world's highest swimming pool on the 44th, and has the dubious distinction of being the Chicago residence of Jerry Springer. Are you still with me or have you lapsed into a coma yet? And, unknown to most Chicagoans, it actually IS Starfleet Headquarters!I love this! A wonderful, captivating shot that captures the dizzying height of the building from street level ( looking up at the place has always inspired vertigo in me ) . I like the black and white and stark lighting which adds a little extra " oomph " to an already spectacular shot!
Art_Ramos
Excellent composition!!!