Stunning, almost stylized; I love the composition, and the colours you've used or enhanced in this shot. Well done!!!

The color pink really pops out in this architectural study, and I find the depth, geometrical figures, textures, contrasts and postwork to be at top notch form in this wide angle image, Mark.

That's clever, peering from the fairly modern to the old and beyond to the more recent. Very enjoyable!

Mark, this is another truly remarkable photo that made my morning. The wide variety of architecture on display here is a sight to beholdo and makes this area really stand out. I love all of the Ivy growing all around and see that this area is enjoyed by many families.

Gorgeous shot Mark nicely taken my friend!!

Yes, I have seen this effect before, but it always amazes me, how you can get it all so smooth and yet with all the sharp edges. It looks absolutely fantastic :-) Love that pink house :D

Fantastic place and marvelous view / capture !!!

Very interesting angle and architecture. Chicago really has so many fabulous structures and you capture them will great style.

Truly a wonderful piece of work. The contrast between the sharp angles and the traditional building is great. And just now as I went back and looked at it again, I saw the people along the side. More greatness!!

great image

Oooh, this is all about the composition for me: digital impressionism or something like that. Is there such a thing as digital impressionism or digital expressionism? There should be and I'd call this a contender for the start of such a genre/mode of art. It's obvious that this started out as a photograph: a really good one, and what you've done is simply take it to another level: almost "down" a level by stripping away the sorts of associations we make in "reality." It's a bit like finding the "true name" of something, as one of the characters in Ursula K. LeGuin's Earthsea universe might put it. Once you know the true name of something (and someone) you have the ability to hold its nature and to manipulate it to a degree (which is why in the world of Earthsea, no one reveals their true names, only their use-names, though wizards tend to know True Names, and only call each other by their True Names in matters of emergency.) So anyway, after a brief trip to Earthsea, I can say that this actually IS a photograph of a true name of the buildings across the way, as well as the nearer, more modern structure (building? patio area? roof?) It's all stripped down to its existential core, and so in a sense, the glamor has been stripped away in order to reveal the thing itself: well, that's how a pagan would put it when describing the act of seeing through a mask, even if that mask is nothing more than our own expectations. The colors in this are nicely warm and slightly desaturated, which is a really interesting contrast: desaturation (even as mild as this) tends to make something seem chilly, but there's no chill in this. There is a sense of clean economy, and it reminds me (also) of the kind of brush stroke a Japanese calligrapher might strive for when rendering characters on paper: the essentials of a shape, the core of a word, the structure of ink, the structure of paper (flaws included) but all working together in the most simple (but not simplistic) way: the direct route if you will...that "shortest distance between A and B" sort of thing where rapacious riots of rococo would completely ruin it. (And just so you know, I've been waiting all day to find an excuse to say/write "rapacious riots of rococo") Even the complexities of the trees have that pared down sense: the leaves are obviously there, the jiggly complexity is there, but it's "simplified" in the way that something might be simplified when it's essence is captured in the shape of a glyph; this whole image is a glyph of sorts, and going back to LeGuin, I suspect that this Architectural Study is also the very name of this section of the neighborhood as this section of the neighborhood recognizes it. I love it when art does that: when it gives a glimpse into something that has always been there, but not really acknowledged. I really like this. It's quite compelling and it invites exploration.