The Loop, Chicago
Every Wednesday FeedBurner goes to Potbelly’s for lunch. Potbelly’s Wednesdays! One day we were walking across the Randolph Street bridge and the Lake Street bridge, just to the south, was opening to let boats through.
Wikipedia says that the Chicago River has 45 movable bridges and that the bridge at Lake Street was [...]

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River North, Chicago
One morning last week I was walking to work and it was so cold and the wind was so strong that it was making this strange, ghostly fog? steam? I don’t know what you’d call it.
Take a while to get used to it, then tell me if you like these larger sized [...]

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A couple weeks ago I was up in the Reid, Murdoch & Co. Building to view the Sox Victory Parade & Rally. What I didn’t show much of was the actual building and clock tower I was in. That, in itself, was pretty impressive and a real treat to experience, since normally people aren’t allowed [...]

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This morning Mike pulled some strings and got me access to the Reid, Murdoch & Co. building. It’s that red building with the clocktower just north of the river between LaSalle & Clark. They had the clocktower open for people who work in the building and certain media types to explore and watch the White [...]

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Wide

I just got a wide-angle lens for my Canon A95 so I’m just testing out.. getting a feel for its range. I’m seeing the barrel distortion mentioned in some of the reviews on amazon. Still, I think it will probably be good to use for some landscape shots in Hawaii next week.

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