Hehe! The city maybe looks better the foggier it gets..(!) However, this is a very beautiful composition, and the trees are a truly amazing colour. The birds are in the perfect place: when I belonged to a pre-digital camera club we used to be accused of 'stick-on' seagulls. HAH!

Mark, this really is a gorgeous photo. Love how the mood goes from misty to clear, and the contrast of the ducks (life) and the autumn trees with their leaves dying is poignant. A very fine work. CC

Chicago looks so nice when she decides to wear a veil; she should do it more often, I think. As for this shot: this is marvelous and even more stunning in the amount of detail you've captured for just two megapixels! WOW! Impressive. I actually happen to have quite an affection for point and shoot cameras; of course I like the swanky, professional quality models, but point-and-shooters are so much easier to carry around and they let you nab so many high-sneak-factor shots, especially...insects like them too...I guess the bigger the camera, the more it looks like an over-complicated insect smasher, and I've learned, recently, that grasshoppers really don't like those! I really love the bird silhouettes. Geese I'm guessing, or ducks...or a gaggle of little urban Loch Ness Monsters visiting Chicago on holiday. Your POV is amazing. It actually makes the city look as if it's emerging out of the water, hauling itself (rather elegantly) onto shore after a nice swim...not that cities swim, but you do deliver the wonderful impression of the city just coming up out of the lake. It reminds me of an opening shot from some tv show like Stargate: Atlantis...a show I watched a lot of though I never admitted such in polite company. The lighting in this is superb, and there's a nice sort of visual poetry here: great verticals, wonderful, shimmery, glassy horizontals, and yes...fog: more like a whisper of fog, but fog nonetheless. Nice. Very nice.

very very beautiful again !

Not an easy capture. Kind of a mysterious effect. Nicely done.

This is spectacular work - great lighting and composition. Just shows that it's the photographer and not the camera that creates stunning images.

excellent pov; perfect light

wonderful view with a special mood from the fog and lighting ,like the birds and the waterscape too!!

marvelous capture!

Lovely. I must admit I haven't noticed any problems from the site from this end.

OH WOW! This is such a stunning shot and I love the fog sneaky into the shore. The little ducks are really adding to this and I love the reflections in the lake. You take Marvellous cityscapes, Mark. Amazing shot with only 2 Megapixels.

Wonderful image

You catched this special moment very fine. It seems that the picture in the head is much more important then a high quality camera! The POV is great, and the atmosphere is catched just in the right moment. Even the ducks are there in the right moment...

A wonderful photograph of the fog rolling slowly into Chicargo, it gives a marvellous atmosphere to the image. I love how the water is shimmering and making the reflections dance. A superbly composed capture.

Magnificent lighting contrast and reflective effects depicting Lake Michigan, and the waterfowl, with your toddling town in the background, Mark. Excellent capture, via a rudimentary camera, of an image that has a definite surreal ambience about it. In fact, if it weren't for the waterfowl, this would be a post apocalyptic scene, due to a deadly plague.

Had the same problem with the site today Mark, and like you finally gave up. So glad I came back tonight as seeing this lovely photo really made an otherwise average day a special one. Only you could capture the true essence and beauty of your city so well, and your choice to choose a time when the fog was rolling in was brilliant. Thank you for your thoughtful posts that always make my day

I just read Chip's comment. He's said so much, so well. The fog does wonderous things to the light...vignetting your image...softening the sharpness of the massive buildings. And the contrast between architecture and water fowl...delightful. As for twelve ducks in the foreground,...you've now got me wondering why the number twelve is associated with completion...hmmmmmm, ...Twelve signs of the Zodiac ...Twelve tribes of Israel ...Moses built twelve pillars on Mount Sinai ...Twelve stones were set as a memorial after crossing the Jordan River ...The Book of Revelation says there are twelve gates to the city, twelve angels as gatekeepers and the names of the twelve tribes written on the gates. Sorry for wandering all over the place on you. See why I find an image like this very inspiring:) Well done my friend!

The twelve ducks of Judah? What on earth ... ??? Ahh well ... It's nice to see them again, when I was missing them from before! :) I like this very much, for all the reasons we've already discussed. (I saw 13, but never mind. He's cute!) :)

Fantastic capture.

Hai fatto molto bene a non resistere !Bella immagine e grande vista sulla città! You were quite right not to resist! Beautiful image and great city views!

What a truly lovely shot this is! Fog is always mysterious and wonderful, and you've captured it so well. I love this!

Oh wow, the contrasts here are simply gorgeous. The one side is almost black and white, the other has that line of color along the bottom. And THEN, there's the water, which brings in yet another dimension. It all works so well together to create that magic vison--and with that camera!! New cameras are going to be so much fun!!

Very nice capture! I still carry around my first camera, even though I upgraded.

MAGIC MOOD A WONDERFUL LIGHT AND GREAT REFLECTIONS I LOVE THE DUCKS IN THE FOREGROUND

This is amazing, like I said in my site mail earlier you do have an eye for a beautiful scene, and you live in a beautiful city so you've got two things working for you right off. I agree with Sandra this is magical.

A 2 megapixel camera? And you got this image that should be made into a huge mural out of it? Wow. Knowing that makes this an even more amazing capture! This is practically a painting, a feast for my eyes and my mind.

Wonderful composition and atmosphere! The slow, soft transformation of the city is so evident in this image. I can feel the delicate tendrils of the fog reaching out imperceptible at first, and slowly covering the city in blue tones. It reminds me of the Moody Blues song, "Late Lament". "Cold hearted orb that rules the night,Removes the colours from our sight. Red is grey and yellow white." While this speaks of the night and moonlight, the fog has similar effects, casting a blue light on the world and fading the warm colors. I love the contrast between the solid, tall, individual, and as yet unaffected buildings on the right, still warm in red tones, and the buildings shrouded in fog, seeming to have lost substance, to crowd together in uncertainty and anonymity. The birds are beautifully placed, drawing us into the scene. I love the reflections. The rough oval of distinct and warm colored reflections of the buildings on the right and the long blue lines reaching across the water to touch the birds. I love the red trees which fade almost into the buildings beneath the fog. I love everything about this image.

This is an amazing shot! Pictures like this remind me why it was that I moved here in the first place. It's been a long day and I'm not as articulate as I'd like to be at the moment, but I agree with everything everybody else says about this. The way it goes from crisp to foggy, that movie star handsome Chicago skyline, the glistening expanse of the lake, the perfectly placed ducks,the whispery mist of the fog rolling in; it all comes together brilliantly. I especially love the mixture of the natural and the man made co-existing in a kind of strange harmony that is the magic of our wonderful lakefront. This is a fantastic shot Mark. Speaking of cameras, I loved my first digital. It too was only two megapixels, but I made some great shots with it in 2007-2008. I probably would have kept it forever, but alas, it was dropped by a drag queen in early 2009. There's a story that I won't go into. Anyway, I loved my little Nikon Coolpix L6. It was easy to use, rugged, and did everything I asked it too, and did it well. I wish I could say the same for the two cheapish Coolpix that I replaced it with. The first died after a year and a half, and the second, that I got in January, is already on the way out. Do yourself a favor. Don't buy a Coolpix. And stay away from drag queens with long fingernails...

very cool and spacious volume through the mist and tone perspective - the one that turns 2D into 3D.

Ah, Tara's ducks! (I see thirteen :o) I love the splash of autumn colors along the coastline, and the quiet stealth of the creeping fog. Super shot.