Where I live it's considered flat. Ha! Just try biking up a 72 meter high gradient from the low end of town to the high end against the wind, and you'll know what sore legs are! I guessed this was "wind city", the hill seems to be leaning under the influence of the wind, or is it that the buildings are leaning? Keep up the good work!

A ramp up to the big time. The perspective draws me right along with the light traffic of what probably is early morning. Everybody heading into the city...nobody coming the other way. Light coming from the east casting long shadows to the west. My mind wanders...I am in one of those cars...going to some office high above crowded sidewalks and beeping horns. HEY, wait a minute, I'm retired...I don't need to do that anymore:-) Well, that's your composition for you...making me visualize a different time and place in my life. And maybe you thought we'd just see a hill where there wasn't supposed to be one. LSD?...hehe, not on your life.

Well in may I'll be turning 60, Mark. Hope you'll be around posting more new photos or art my friend. I like the pov shot of the highway.

Impressive view! When we visit our daughter in Champaign-Urbana, I always marvel at the lack of hills. In Kentucky, you can't get to the mailbox without going up or down a hill.

I love this shot, Mark. That purple road lined with shadows leads my eye right to the classic skyline. It definitely feels like a substantial hill from the POV you chose (I assume you took this from an overpass?), though the hills of San Francisco would certainly laugh at your audacity for calling this a hill at all.

Your LSD comment reminded me of a site from back in the early 1970's. I was living in Berkeley at the time & just above the UC Berkeley campus was the California School for the Deaf. On a hillside above the school, there was a giant floral display that spelled out the school's initials (CSD) in block letters - you couldn't miss it if you were driving anywhere in that area. Well, of course some merry pranksters cut off the top part of the "C" to make it read LSD & it stayed that way for quite a long time...

This is not so bad. I remember driving across Nebraska where the tallest elevation in the state is a mole hill. A fine image here. The road median takes the eye right where it is supposed to go, to a rather attractive skyline.

Lol...a bump...love it

I should be happiest facing the other way.

It's a grand capture Mark just glad to be a sharer in this vision of yours my friend!! I love it!!!

I remember walking uphill ten miles in the snow both ways to get to school! this isn't a hill, this is a minor deflection in the earth.

Great shot, Mark. I remember being stationed at Great Lakes and it was so flat that if you rolled a marble just right, it would travel in a straight line forever!

Wonderful photo Mark. LUV your hill Fun description. Now this will give you nosebleeds.The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest land-based range in the world.Take care my friend

this is a big hill??? ahahahaha! come see the mountains we have here in the cities of new england (where just parking on the street is an experience.) :) I do love how everyone is heading into the city and no one is leaving, that says good things to me because the city looks very pretty. oh, and the shadows on the pavement... awesome!

This is really an amazing photo, Mark! The long shadows indicate either early morning or late afternoon, and really give this a feel that some tranquility may be found even in the big city. I'm fascinated by the traffic all heading into the city, with the outbound lane deserted - which makes me think it's morning with everyone going to work.

Well we do have a few hills in Missouri.... I mean other than the speed bumps we have around here... LOL

Fantastic and evocative image, the shining and lateral light from this scene an unreal look, also made for its pink color. The thing that impresses me is the fact that it seems to represent the power of the metropolis to attract the people involved in their cars. The city seems like an enormous magnet where no one can escape, no cars in the picture come out. As in a huge black hole that swallows everything and leaves nothing, not even light.

Lol.......I had that same impression as I flew into Chicago---it's so FLAT!! But it's still a great city and I loved every part of it. You always get such a clarity in your fotos and this one is no exception!!

Ummm ... is this a man-made hill that leads to a bridge that crosses over another road? Like ... is it really a ramp? I've been there. It's flat. No, seriously. FLAT! I'm suspect of anything that looks like it might be a hill, especially since it looks like it leads to a bridge. I'll give it to you that it IS a slight rise, but it's hard to believe it's natural. There's a big hill in south Texas. We just call it the landfill. :P Come to Seattle! We'll show you around! :D

The evidence of big Cities are those high-risers .... and 4 [!] lanes of car traffic, either way ! not one or two - but FOUR ! that is a big WOW ! [let's not speak of the pollution you may have to endure ?] and never mind about that, but the fascinating thing is the situation you have stirred up here, with a late afternoon Sun, leaving long purple shadows behind ! or is it morning ? everybody going/driving to work ? - [nobody seems to be going home the other way?] - I am easily confused, as you may have noticed, maybe another Groucho Marx moment?, either way it's a reflection of a big city, without hills [!] and it conjures up a myriad of possibilities, what's going on behind closed doors, especially some of those with noose-bleeds and/or a lack of oxygen ...

A grand shot of Lake Shore Drive. The beast of a city, with all it's concrete and steal monsters, awaits.

WOW! Mark, I will never get tired of Chicago. Atleast not on YOUR photos. Never and this is so beautiful with the street with sun stribes and the beautiful highrise in the distance. OH MY! Your photographs are simply amazing. This included.