Water Works, Chicago by beachzz
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This is an amazing place**---someone told me it's one of the few structures that survived the Chicago fire. I was waiting for Chip (he snuck into the Borders bookstore under false pretenses and bought books for Tara and me--wasn't that sweet??) and wandered around the park. I love this shot, though maybe I should have saved it for Halloween; it does have kind of an eerie look to it!!
**water works
Comments (18)
bazza
Wow wonderful capture does look a bit eerie.. looks like an old castle of some kind.. beautiful...
bmac62
I checked this out on Wiki...it is both a priceless relic and a tourist attraction. This nighttime shot is fabulous. Imagine if walls could talk.
durleybeachbum
Astonishing structure! definitely a place for Hamlet to see his dad.
THROBBE
Does look kind of spooky! Great shot!
anaber
REAL WONDERFUL!!!!Your capture is real wonderful.In fact the structure is superb and thank you for your link...but i´m really astonished with you photograph.Sound like mistery and dream!
awjay
beautiful
frankie96
The twilight zone in Chi town....
MrsRatbag
MWAAHAAAAHAAAAAA! It is spooky, but very beautiful!
auntietk
I loved walking by that place every night. It's so incongruous with its surroundings, yet it absolutely belongs there. This is a great shot of it!
Sea_Dog
Would have been a natural for Halloween but I'm glad you didn't wait. This is exceptional work. As the others have mentioned the eerie atmosphere is captured wonderfully.
lizzibell
great night shot...
hipps13
very sweet wonderful capture warm hugs, Linda
elfin14doaks
It does have an eerie look about i, but it was so cool standing there among the newer building. Great shot.
goodoleboy
If handled right, Water Works anywhere....just turn on the faucet, and there it is. A fantastic eery ambiance permeates this night scene in this capture of the antiquated utility, Maz! Terrific POV and contrasts. Looks almost like an old castle or prison at night, or a scene from a Batman movie.
Buffalo1
The Water Tower is indeed a photographer's favorite. Fine night detail capture.
danapommet
Stellar capture and Halloween is not that far away if you have another POV. Dana
Chipka
How did I not comment on this one?! Well, I'm commenting now. Fantastic. I love those contrasts and the moodyness you caught. It's hard to believe that tourists go swarming around this place every day. You've caught the other side of it, that dark and brooding and "Old" side of it...even though Chicago isn't really that old when you stop and think about it. At any rate, you caught all of the wordless glory of the old Water Tower. Fantastic! You do night shots really well!!!!
anahata.c
I'm just picking up bits & pieces in the galleries right now, I'll get to more work in the coming days...but this is a beautiful & mysterious capture of the Water Works from the 1800s—a landmark, yes, because it was the north end of the Chicago Fire, and therefore one of the only structures in the fire's path that remained. You turned it into a deeply gothic, mysterious & looming structure; and with Chip's version, you two posted a wonderful diptych of this strange & great old bldg. You really did wonderful work with the angle, the deep shadows, the whiteness of the light (in person it's more yellow & 'warm', here it's wonderfully late-night & filled with deep shadows), and the inclusion of the ghostlike high-rise lights on the right. Another of your intuitively fine pieces, and a real pleasure Marilyn. I'll see more soon. So nice to be commenting in your gallery again...