Cloud City by Out of Chicago on Flickr.A través de Flickr: This weekend I woke up to shoot some early morning sunrise shots. I’ve always wanted to go up to the top of Willow Hill Golf Course to get a shot of the city. The clouds obscured the view for most of the morning, but they made for interesting effects when they cleared a bit. I’ll be going back to try this in different weather conditions. If you happen to be in the Glenview area when the sun is coming up, this is worth a shot. Don’t forget about our photo walk this Sunday afternoon with an added feature. I’ll be giving tips and answering any of your questions during the tour. Get details at the Best of Chicago Walking Tours website. From www.outofchicago.com
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Cloud City by Out of Chicago on Flickr.

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This weekend I woke up to shoot some early morning sunrise shots. I’ve always wanted to go up to the top of Willow Hill Golf Course to get a shot of the city. The clouds obscured the view for most of the morning, but they made for interesting effects when they cleared a bit. I’ll be going back to try this in different weather conditions. If you happen to be in the Glenview area when the sun is coming up, this is worth a shot.

Don’t forget about our photo walk this Sunday afternoon with an added feature. I’ll be giving tips and answering any of your questions during the tour. Get details at the Best of Chicago Walking Tours website.

From www.outofchicago.com

The Sun – 11 May 2012 by josefrancisco.salgado on Flickr.A través de Flickr:The Sun grows more active as it approaches maximum sunspot number (predicted for Feb 2013). The top view, shot on May 11 through a dense solar filter attached to the Doane Observatory’s 6-in finder telescope by Adler Astronomer Dr. José Francisco Salgado (Nikon D4), shows a Jupiter-sized sunspot group in the Sun’s lower atmosphere (the Photosphere). While the bottom view, shot about the same time by Adler Astronomer Larry Ciupik (video camera) using the Doane’s 90mm Coronado Solar Telescope, shows the Sun’s mottled middle atmosphere (the Chromosphere) which resides more than 1,000 miles higher than the Photosphere. Notice the huge prominences shooting outward from the edge of the solar disk. Prominences and the dark lines known as filaments (prominences seen top down), form near strong surface magnetic fields. The Coronado Solar Telescope rejects all but a tiny bit of sunlight in an exceptionally narrow region of the spectrum centered on a dark Hydrogen line called H-alpha. © 2012 José Francisco Salgado; © 2012 Larry Ciupik
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The Sun – 11 May 2012 by josefrancisco.salgado on Flickr.

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The Sun grows more active as it approaches maximum sunspot number (predicted for Feb 2013).

The top view, shot on May 11 through a dense solar filter attached to the Doane Observatory’s 6-in finder telescope by Adler Astronomer Dr. José Francisco Salgado (Nikon D4), shows a Jupiter-sized sunspot group in the Sun’s lower atmosphere (the Photosphere). While the bottom view, shot about the same time by Adler Astronomer Larry Ciupik (video camera) using the Doane’s 90mm Coronado Solar Telescope, shows the Sun’s mottled middle atmosphere (the Chromosphere) which resides more than 1,000 miles higher than the Photosphere.

Notice the huge prominences shooting outward from the edge of the solar disk. Prominences and the dark lines known as filaments (prominences seen top down), form near strong surface magnetic fields. The Coronado Solar Telescope rejects all but a tiny bit of sunlight in an exceptionally narrow region of the spectrum centered on a dark Hydrogen line called H-alpha.

© 2012 José Francisco Salgado; © 2012 Larry Ciupik

Electrical Storm, Chicago [iPhone 4] by josefrancisco.salgado on Flickr.A través de Flickr: 3-img composite | iPhone 4 | Museum Campus, Chicago, IL, 3 May 2012 © 2012 José Francisco Salgado, PhD Do not use without permission.
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Electrical Storm, Chicago [iPhone 4] by josefrancisco.salgado on Flickr.

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3-img composite | iPhone 4 | Museum Campus, Chicago, IL, 3 May 2012
© 2012 José Francisco Salgado, PhD
Do not use without permission.

Big Sister’s Watching by CJSmith (OutofChicago.com) on Flickr. A través de Flickr: This is a shot from a few weeks ago when I was borrowing the Canon 8-15mm fisheye, shot at 14mm. I am always admiring those shots from guys like Seth Oliver of reflections off of park benches and other objects around the city. When I saw this puddle in Crown Fountain, I wanted to try the same type of thing.Earth Hour Earth Hour is tomorrow night. Many of the city’s buildings, including most of the skyline, will be turning off their lights from 8:30 to 9:30 tomorrow night. Any good ideas for where to go to shoot this? I imagine there will be a lot of you down at Adler planetarium. I think it’s the lights that make the skyline look as good as it does, but this is an opportunity that only comes around once a year. Maybe this is a good time to shoot from the Hancock? What do you guys think?Jaume Plensa en muufi
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Big Sister’s Watching by CJSmith (OutofChicago.com) on Flickr.

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This is a shot from a few weeks ago when I was borrowing the Canon 8-15mm fisheye, shot at 14mm. I am always admiring those shots from guys like Seth Oliver of reflections off of park benches and other objects around the city. When I saw this puddle in Crown Fountain, I wanted to try the same type of thing.

Earth Hour
Earth Hour is tomorrow night. Many of the city’s buildings, including most of the skyline, will be turning off their lights from 8:30 to 9:30 tomorrow night. Any good ideas for where to go to shoot this? I imagine there will be a lot of you down at Adler planetarium. I think it’s the lights that make the skyline look as good as it does, but this is an opportunity that only comes around once a year. Maybe this is a good time to shoot from the Hancock? What do you guys think?

Jaume Plensa en muufi

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The Spider and the Giants by Thomas Hawk on Flickr.A través de Flickr: Flamingo, created by noted American artist Alexander Calder, is a 53 foot[1] (16 m) tall stabile located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States.[2] It was commissioned by the United States General Services Administration and was unveiled in 1974, although Calder’s signature on the sculpture indicates it was constructed in 1973. Flamingo weighs 50 tons, is composed of steel, and is vermilion in color. Calder gave the stabile its color, which has come to be called “Calder red”,[4] to offset it from the black and steel surroundings of nearby office buildings, including the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed Kluczynski Federal Building.[5][6] The stabile is an art form which Calder pioneered. It is an abstract structure that is completely stationary, as opposed to a mobile, which can move with air currents. Calder was commissioned to design the sculpture because of his well-established international reputation; the space, surrounded by rectangular modern buildings, necessitated the kind of arching forms and dynamic surfaces that a large-scale Calder stabile could provide.[7] Flamingo was the first work of art commissioned by the General Services Administration under the federal Percent for Art program, which allocates a percentage of a project’s budget to public art.[8][9] Calder unveiled the model for Flamingo on April 23, 1973 at the Art Institute of Chicago; the sculpture was presented to the public for the first time on October 25, 1974, at the same time that Calder’s Universe mobile was unveiled at the Sears Tower. The day was proclaimed “Alexander Calder Day” and featured a circus parade. Despite the large size of the sculpture, its design is such that viewers can walk underneath and around it, thus enabling one to perceive it in human scale.[4] The shape of Flamingo alludes to the natural and animal realm, which is a stark contrast to more literal interpretations in sculpture from previous decades.[10] Calder’s structure is a prominent example of the constructivist movement, first popularized in Russia in the early 20th century. Constructivism refers to sculpture that is made from smaller pieces which are joined together.[11] A maquette of the stabile is located inside the Loop Station post office in the Federal Plaza.
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The Spider and the Giants by Thomas Hawk on Flickr.

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Flamingo, created by noted American artist Alexander Calder, is a 53 foot[1] (16 m) tall stabile located in the Federal Plaza in front of the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois, United States.[2] It was commissioned by the United States General Services Administration and was unveiled in 1974, although Calder’s signature on the sculpture indicates it was constructed in 1973.

Flamingo weighs 50 tons, is composed of steel, and is vermilion in color. Calder gave the stabile its color, which has come to be called “Calder red”,[4] to offset it from the black and steel surroundings of nearby office buildings, including the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed Kluczynski Federal Building.[5][6] The stabile is an art form which Calder pioneered. It is an abstract structure that is completely stationary, as opposed to a mobile, which can move with air currents.

Calder was commissioned to design the sculpture because of his well-established international reputation; the space, surrounded by rectangular modern buildings, necessitated the kind of arching forms and dynamic surfaces that a large-scale Calder stabile could provide.[7] Flamingo was the first work of art commissioned by the General Services Administration under the federal Percent for Art program, which allocates a percentage of a project’s budget to public art.[8][9] Calder unveiled the model for Flamingo on April 23, 1973 at the Art Institute of Chicago; the sculpture was presented to the public for the first time on October 25, 1974, at the same time that Calder’s Universe mobile was unveiled at the Sears Tower. The day was proclaimed “Alexander Calder Day” and featured a circus parade.

Despite the large size of the sculpture, its design is such that viewers can walk underneath and around it, thus enabling one to perceive it in human scale.[4] The shape of Flamingo alludes to the natural and animal realm, which is a stark contrast to more literal interpretations in sculpture from previous decades.[10]

Calder’s structure is a prominent example of the constructivist movement, first popularized in Russia in the early 20th century. Constructivism refers to sculpture that is made from smaller pieces which are joined together.[11]

A maquette of the stabile is located inside the Loop Station post office in the Federal Plaza.

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