A River Runs Through It...Kinda Slowly by CoreyBlack
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This is a variation of yesterday's shot: the North Branch of Chicago river, snaking through the Albany Park neighborhood of Chicago.
I captured this picture on the Bernard Street Foot Bridge in December of 2009. It was quite chilly that day and just thinking about it makes my fingers numb.
Comments (9)
beachzz
Chilly seems like and understatement!!
Chipka
Hmmm...I should nag you to post stuff more often, it seems to work, because when I first saw this picture, I wanted you to post it. It's so striking, so moody, and in a way, so not Chicago. I mean it is Chicago, especially in its almost monochrome quality, but it's moody and thick with something a bit more real than Chicago often presents. I love the reflections in this and that vanishing curve. The whole composition of this shot is what I like and the fact that there IS color in here, very subtly, and quite far away, but still there. This is great work.
KatesFriend
This section of the river looks so much like the area where I grew up. Decembers were equally cold and gray (Canada's number 2 export might I add) and that the architecture of the apartment blocks was (still is) that red/brown box look - ever heard of Brampton Brick?
durleybeachbum
So chilly looking..BRRR!
jmb007
belle photo!!
flavia49
fabulous image and mood!!
sandra46
the River of the Onions the Indians called it. Great shot.
auntietk
I like the starkness of this version. The chill is palpable. An excellent companion shot.
anahata.c
amidst your many captures of this city, you manage to capture the river as a piece of great subtle beauty---because it is, when looked at the right way. It's just, most people look past it as it snakes its way through a few parts of the city. It's hardly a commanding river (a little canal, more like it), but your shots of it have made me see it in whole different ways. This is beautiful, moody, soft, and coldly shimmering. (Has to be seen full size, it just blooms that way. I always see full size, but some pics just burst onto the screen that way.) But you haven't apologized for the urbanity either: We see the messy, scruffy city's back sides, the cars sitting there, the scruffy 'stuff' that populates the slope on the viewer's right, and all mixed with the generally ugly fences, the stone or wood barriers between the city and water, and the stringy winterized trees. It's urban and natural all at once, and it has a spontaneous feel too...This is a splendid shot---as are your other river shots---and the overall misty patina makes it seem a little bit dreamy. More fine work, Corey. Makes me appreciate these places more than I ever have...