Chicago does bleakness rather well...especially in its dominant season: Winter. Of course we only have one season here...winter with a warm snap. I love the snow, the ice, and the clouds, all with a healthy dollop of slush woven through it and those docking berths look positively lonely. Harbors without boats are always strangely haunting, and the only thing that tops that, at least, in terms of haunting-ness, are harbors with derelict boats. I love the sheer lifelessness of this scene: no people, no gulls, no signs that anything moves or lives at all...this could be The Day After, or some strange pause in which reality re-sets itself. Great stuff. I like this a lot.

A lonely atmosphere with a touch of desperration, excellent capture!

Having just travelled across the middle of Kansas and western Nebraska (thinking of Namibia as we rolled along), the tone of this image really resonates with me today! I can truly appreciate the nothing-ness of the image. Endless rangeland with one or two houses in the distance (or nothing at all) and a row of trees for a windbreak ... it's strangely compelling. I love your image for that immediacy, and for the fact that it appears to be in b&w when I'm quite sure it's really in color. Excellent picture!

Excellent capture, clarity and burr I am so cold.

We only have one season too, but it surely isn't this one. On the rare occasion where our roads are icy in San Antonio, there is a steady litany of accident reports on the radio. Beautiful image! The lines of the docks and shore stand out in sharp relief against the snow, and ice. The slabs of ice and heavy sky, give it such a feeling of brutal cold. Wonderful winter shot!

Beautiful indeed, but not something I would enjoy for more than a few days!

You are so right, I can feel the cold. We all have this to look forward to in Wintertime. Wonderful capture, Corey. Diane.

This is something we don't get here in London - well, we do get occasional snow, but there are no frozen lakes, and the river hasn't frozen in my living memory. This is a strangely desolate scene, and it's a little sad in a way. I imagine it looks a lot different in Summer, and I'd be curious to see that. Great capture, Corey!

beautiful !

superlative, impressive image!

marvelous picture!

Really nice shot Corey - it really captures what Chicago looks like in the hauntingly beautiful wintertime

There is a curiously graceful ballet going on under these circumstances tough most people don't notice. The ice and the water co-exist together two manifestations of the same thing. Rather a lot like how matter is 'frozen energy'. And molecules slip easily, almost as if at will, from one form to another and back again. I think this effect has a subtle hypnotic appeal to the viewer as they watch the water and ice wash over each other. The shot itself feels cold, perhaps because it is really cold in my part of the world tonight, or maybe the blues and grays evoke an instinctive reaction to the scene. But it is an effective capture. Happy Halloween!

Love your pov and your image !!!! EXCELLENT, dear Corey :)

This has an endlessly cold, neverending look to it. Somehow I have the idea when it's this cold, freezing for days on end, it must seem neverending. You caught that beautifully with this shot.

Brrrr This is cold, lonely and desolate. Love Chicago in the summer, but winter is hard to tolerate. Your really nailed it Corey. Great shot.

Can I feel the cold wind biting through my body? I was out there all last winter photographing! My hands sued me, my coat said it had better gigs on a mountain lion, and my face turned to granite & cracked and flaked off when I got inside. This is one frozen chicago shot---and it's beautiful. And once again, that angle is just perfect. (I've done angles---sometimes inspired by you!---and every damned time they've been pretentious. "Get over yourself, Mark" type of stuff. When you do it? It's fine.) Really nice linear sweep, perfect angles for the location, fine play between snow & black shadows, a wonderful music in the ice rhythms, and that midwest frigid sky that we do so well. Wonderful january hues. I'm very glad you posted this. It would've been a shame if it sat in a folder somewhere. More wonderful work from you, Corey.

YIKEs it looks so freaking cohohold BRRR ! I am NOT looking forward to the cold winter, but this shot is so beautiful and the bridges so slippery :-)