My name is Tara, and I was born and raised in Washington State.
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In 2010 I married Bill (bmac62) and retired ... two of the best choices I ever made! :)
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In March, 2013, we sold our home in Washington and went on the road in our RV full time. What a blast! There is so much world out there to see!
After traveling around the West for a few years, we got rid of the motorhome and are now spending winters in deep-south Texas and summers in Washington State. Spring and fall finds us visiting whichever place strikes our fancy at the time!
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If I’m missing from Renderosity from time to time, I’m busy having fun elsewhere.
Thanks for your interest in my work, and for stopping by to learn more about me!Â
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Tamron 24-70mm f2.8
Canon 70-200mm f4.0
Zeiss 50mm f1.4
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Photoshop CC
WACOM Intuos 4
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Comments (34)
Lashia
wow great idea, love the curvy image, very original. Great shot and thanks for sharing!
myrabe
You may be the kid with a white sash or the mature woman wearing a gray jacket. Both of you enrich this wonder of photographic skill.
Meisiekind
This is a definite zoomer! I saw all three of you! Marilyn and Mark right by the stairs and you just to the right of them. I aslo saw the handprint!! I love this thing - it is so much fun!! Great image my friend! :)
RickGot
Surreal perspective, nicely captured.
prutzworks
cool mirror distortion
ShadowsNTime
Yep I see you all and the handprint too, what an amazing reflection! I've said it before to Mark, I am really amazed at how clean it is there, they do a fine job of keeping it that way! Beautiful work Tara, I would expect no less from you, you have a unique eye for these kinds of things and give us a chance to see things in very different perspectives, thank you for your great eye! and sharing your vision with us! Thanks also for the heartfelt comment on Empty Arms, big hugs to you!
bmac62
Absolute knock-out at the ZOOM! Bet nobody saw it this way the day you took the picture. But we get to today:):):)
helanker
Yes, I see all of you too ! What a fun capture Tara :-)))
cfulton
I immediatly looked for the trio - the other two giving you away! I love this reflective surface. I have to come and see it! One day...! Clive
Faemike55
Fantastic shot, Tara! I've really enjoyed your 'tour' of Chicago
Hendesse
Fantastic shot, looks amazing. Superb!
myrrhluz
Yes, I see all! (A fairly sweeping statement, but you know what I mean) Wonderful image! I love the building on the left which seems to be thrusting out its chest in pride. It is very interesting the way different buildings are effected. One burst with pride, another curves it lines in indecision and a third has very irregularly shaped windows. Fascinating stuff and definitely to be seen on zoom. The hand print and Lynn's comment reminds me that I saw it being cleaned. This was mostly unfortunate as it limited my movement around it, but it was interesting. I took some shots, but they are on film. Someday, maybe I'll get one on rr.
Geoaskier
OHHHH O like this a lot WAY cool!!
Katraz
Great shot I found the hand print, its great to scroll around the big picture, It fills the whole of my new 22" Hi Def monitor,and its amazing what you can see at that size.
awjay
super shot
orig_buggy
I love your idea on the twist of this!!
durleybeachbum
Engrossing! I could get lost in there. marvellous shot.
npauling
An interesting perspective of life.
mbz2662
Super :)
CoreyBlack
Really nice. Reflections are fascinating, and I always get them somehow. I think that the distortion really pops out of this. It looks like somebody left a giant glob of mercury in Grant Park. That's a good thing (Actually Chip said that Mercury thing, but then he's looking over my shoulder, so he would.) This rocks. I like the clarity and the way that everybody is here. I see three people in this shot I recognize and it's like I'm right there with you all! I'm going to remember that weekend for a long time. This is a great shot! It makes me feel warm to see it.
jocko500
real cool looking
bazza
Lovely work on this very well done, Yep I can see you all and the hand print.. Nice capture of the city view too.
wysiwig
Very cool image. Looks like a funhouse mirror (or did I just date myself?).
emmecielle
Interesting reflections! :)
anahata.c
Ok, I see you, I see me, I see marilyn, I see the bird, I see a "taste eat enjoy" sign and I see William Shakespeare, Vincent van Gogh and Miles freakin' Davis. But I don't see the handprint! (You sure you're not playing games with us?) Wait! I see it! Ok. You're off the hook! I was gonna be prettttttty pissed off if I had to sit here till April looking for the little ____. Rest rest, perturbed spirit, I found the handprint. ('Rest rest perturbed spirit' is from Hamlet. He likes the bean too.) The key thing, however, is that it's another of your wonderful 'bean' shots with that high saturation white, the hints of blue in the upper bean, and a wonderful weird undulating version of Chicago, below. Another fine vision of this strangest of all Chicago phenomena, and the light is just the best. (* the "upper bean" is a region in northern Peru. That's not very funny. Ok forget it. Ya can't be funny all the time...)
lucindawind
wow what a cool shot!!
debbielove
I knew I shouldn't of drank that much!!!!!! Ohhh! My head! Great shot Wonderful POV! And I'm sure thats you, top left! Rob
Chipka
I love Mark's Upper Bean comment because of a reference to a potato shaped region of France I'd heard while visiting with Corey and his roommate, Neil. Neil has this thing for France (and romance.) Corey has a thing for cars, especially muscle cars. I'm trying to get him to scan some of his drawings. Anyway, enough of that. What I really want to say is that I love this photo. I have so many of the bean and I haven't felt compelled to post them. A couple are from exactly the same perspective as yours, give or take a step or two in one direction or another, but there's just something about YOUR shots. I guess the Bean seen from non Chicago eyes is the Bean seen with some of the added details and strange thingamabobs that Chicagoans miss. At any rate, this is a top notch photo with three of my favorite people in it. That's even better. I can't find the hand print though, but if I shift my focus and pretend I've gone interdimensional or something, I can see Victor and Corey and Pavl in there, and yeah...Pavl would be the one smoking and looking strangely disinterested in everything while at the same time being totally engaged. Needless to say, I love this work, and I can go on and on about loopy Czechs, quiet Russians, and Car-Geek Americans, but I'll just say that this image rocks. Cool beans...well...at least ONE bean.
danapommet
I found you but is was easy once I spotted Marilyn's green sandles. I'm with Mark with the funhouse mirror. Super capture. Dana
hipps13
I think I saw the hand not so sure as me eyes strained a bit dizy made me feel wonderful capture saw all three of you thanks for the smile even the strain warm hugs and love, Linda Kaye