Excellent picture!!!

so much going on here, to me, an Englishman, this is just how i imagine a large American city to be. Im paying my first visit to the states in June, five days in New York, my shutter finger's twitching in anticipation.

Excellent! 5+

Fascinating to see. Love the lights.

Mark, if you ask me this is one of the most beautiful birthday dedications I have ever seen. Of course the photo is great and I love the white you enhanced that retro feel. Still for me it was the simple fact of the obvious amount of care and love that went into this production that makes it stand out as something special. No matter the reasoning I'm sure it is one she will always treasure.

What a lovely and perfect post and dedi for Tara; I love the warm brownish tones and the satiny light, and of course the rows of wonderful street lamps. Happy birthday, Tara, and I hope it's a really great one for you!

AmaZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzing cityscape photograph!

Great capture - good luck on the therapy.

fabulous capture.

Wonderful shot and dedication for a very special person. I really like the retro styling - sets a great mood.

Atleast??! This is a fabulous capture and I love the tones in this shot. Taken from the best POV and I love, that the eye level is exactly in same level as the beautiful street lamps. What a magnificent capture this is. I totally agree with Dave.

I know just where you were standing when you took this (El platform at Lake and State) so I know where the Reliant building is. :P This truly is one of my favorite places. I love the perspective ... the streetlights make this an amazing shot. A photo for my birthday is wholly appropriate, and greatly appreciated, my friend. And such a photograph! I do love this. You make me want to be there!

SUPERLATIVE WORK AND GREAT DEDI

Tons of geometric objects, and extremely terrific POV, clarity, perspective, lighting, contrast, and pseudo abstaction in this quasi tunnel vision image, Mark! I like the way you situated the street lights so they are exactly on the horizon line; most dramatic effect.

This is such a fabulous street scene with all the details showing up so clearly. It is a great birthday gift for Tara too. I love that 'Old Chicago' look you have given it as it looks so rich and beautiful. A superb capture.

Cool capture and motif, Mark. A fine dedication. I love the format of the image(very wide) Also the kind of sepia/old style look. Hope they get your arm fixed so you can draw and paint again.:( Thanks for your nice comments about me, my work, and my gallery. Best wishes.

beautiufl dedication !

I was recently with Corey (today, if that qualifies as recent) browsing through a book store in our old haunt of a neighborhood and Corey found a book of photographs. I was busy lusting over a rather sensual copy of Ursula K. LeGuin's novel, Lavinia, but the price forbade me from buying it, as I'd already had an armload of Kafka, LeGuin, Mieville, and Toni Morrison on the wish list clutched in my sweaty, book-grubbing hand. Anyway, this photograph ranks way the heck up there with the photos I saw in that book: shots of Chicago as a different city than the one today--there was a distinct angular and blocky quality to the city then, and there were streetcar tracks and men in black, women in old-fashioned type clothes, and I could practically smell the cholera in the air (I guess, back in the day, nothing beat the smell of fresh cholera in the morning! But it made for such a wonderful photo. For as grim and short-lived as life in Chicago was, at that time, there was a kind of beauty to it; I guess it was the overall awareness of mortality and those harbingers of deadness like...oh...disease...street cars...other Chicagoans...and other Chicagoan's dogs, etc.) Many of the photos I'd seen in the book Corey was holding were from the turn of the century (that other century) and there was a distinct kind of...well...an odd sort of Polish-ness and Czech-ness in the shot. And that's what I see in this one. Mostly from the shot itself, and also from the wonderful, muted tones that recall my favorite sort of sepia tint. I can look at this shot and recall all of the untold stories about people whose last names were Novak or Patrzyk, Rudnitsky, Kodetov, Pecha, or Hlavcek.) I'm glad to say that I'm not seeing any harbingers on doom in this photograph...no gangsters, no pyromaniac cows, no heartless paper tychoons, and no whiffs of cholera carried on a bovine-scented swamp breeze. Instead, I see the city I live in now, as it might look in the future, for someone looking back and wondering what life was like when people wrote things on paper and took pictures with those camera things, rather than the oh-so-convenient retinal implants everyone gets before they're born! I see the city as it is, with just a hint of patina: like the patina of copper, turning it from something beautiful into something beautiful. You've done a masterful job of that and this is a perfect dedication, especially since all of the grim and grotty things from Chicago's past aren't there...but the sense of age is...there's a sense of history, and a wonderful "veil of time" showing us the city as it's likely to be seen way, way off in the future. And it's a city that I love wandering around, especially when the birthday-lady in question is around, taking pictures of things I didn't even know were here. This is superb. A perfect dedication and a true work of art.

Is it possible to say any more than Chip did? lol But, of course, I'll try!! I love the light. especially that diagonal across the street. I don't know if I saw this particular street, but I sure hope I can some day. It's got everything a city should have. AND, it's a perfect dedi for Tara!!

Hi Mark, I have been AWOL from everybody's gallery for 2-3 weeks or so and today I am scratching the surface of all I've missed. This is right on the money for Tara. She is one of the world's biggest fans of your hometown (I have caught the fever too). Composition is superb...I should expect anything less?;-) And your postwork has set this back in time. Fascinating treatment.