Flamingo Sees His Shadow (Except it's his Reflection) by taffy

Flamingo Sees His Shadow (Except it's his Reflection)

Andie @ukandie1 and I met for an 'Old and New' walking tour, which should have been fun, except the walking tour was of everything we always photograph. We could lead the tour! And it was cold...deceptive as it looked warm, so I was really underdressed. We stayed with it for most of the tour, but peeled off to head home before they turned east and we would have had longer to walk. So, good it got us both out of the house and downtown, and fun to have a meetup as always, but it was nice to be warm!
Awesome vision.
March 20th, 2018  
Haha! Great title and wonderful sense of looming!
March 20th, 2018  
Neat capture of the powerful energy of those buildings...great perspective, reflections, lines
March 20th, 2018  
@ukandie1 From our brief stop in the sun of the plaza!
March 20th, 2018  
Love this image Taffy! I am laughing as I know you could give an amazing tour! With your knowledge you could set up in competition to the CAF tours! Lol! Fav for this lovely shot - great pov!
March 20th, 2018  
Great details, lines, and reflections. You could set yourselves up as tour guides!
March 20th, 2018  
Great shot!
March 20th, 2018  
Awesome picture.
March 20th, 2018  
Probably a great tour for those who were not so familiar with the city as you are! Great photo.
March 20th, 2018  
I at least envy you an interesting city to go walking in! I know what you mean about having photographed it all, but I haven't seen this angle...I love that sculpture!
March 20th, 2018  
Interesting sculpture and nice reflections.
March 20th, 2018  
Its arching its back but I can't hear a hiss! Rather striking sculpture!
March 20th, 2018  
You've breathed life into this ever so cool work of art. Fav.
March 20th, 2018  
excellent as always, great POV
March 20th, 2018  
A wonderful image.
March 20th, 2018  
Nice! I like how the buildings seem to enclose and look down onto the Calder.
March 20th, 2018  
a great architectural photo
March 20th, 2018  
Great reflection. What is the line that goes up on viewers right along side and above of the main building?
March 20th, 2018  
Stunning capture. Impressed by your energy to go out and take those shots !! Fav
March 20th, 2018  
That pop of colour, wow.
March 20th, 2018  
Wonderful reflections and perspective. The sculpture adds a nice splash of colour.
March 20th, 2018  
Lovely capture and hardly a soul in sight! Something to do with the temperatures? Great splash of Calder colour and how cool to get the reflections too!
March 20th, 2018  
Nice capture and like the red! Fav
March 20th, 2018  
You two should lead your own photographic tour and make some bucks on knowing all the best spots for pictures!
March 20th, 2018  
Amazing perspective and reflections. Your images and your city are super.
March 20th, 2018  
Oh a nice retirement job - tour guide
March 20th, 2018  
Love the punchy colours in this. I'm sure you and Andie would make terrific guides. You should start your own photo walks business!
March 20th, 2018  
I love the pov, great reflections :)
March 20th, 2018  
Wonderful as always. I love you architectural shots and the flamingo makes this. Fav
March 20th, 2018  
Well done, as always! Nice to see a pop of colour at this dreary time
March 20th, 2018  
Wonderful Chicago photo! The reflections are great.
March 20th, 2018  
Beautiful capture and processing.
March 20th, 2018  
@jgpittenger If it's the white line you're talking about, I think it's the weird cloud. There's one that's quite clear to the left of the building, a long horizontal cloud. The lighting was hard as the sun was coming in right behind the building on the right, and I suspect the cloud lines are exaggerated as I had to use HDR to blend three images as the buildings were almost blacked out to get the sky, or the sky totally blown out to get the buildings. Only the blended image came close to the right lighting, but then the details are more surreal as a result. If it's not the white looking line, I'm not sure which one you mean as I'm not seeing another one on my computer.
March 20th, 2018  
Great use of complementary colours to pull out the reflection. I like the dynamic, upward thrust of the lines of the buildings created by the angle of capture too.
March 20th, 2018  
I imagine you are an excellent tour guide around Chicago- especially since you know all the great spots to photograph! Here's another fine example!
March 20th, 2018  
A super capture. Fav!! 😀
March 20th, 2018  
Great image as always, great reflections in the buildings. If you were leading a photography tour in Chicago I would take it :-)
March 20th, 2018  
Great capture
March 20th, 2018  
Superb, love the lines, reflections etc etc ! Fav
March 20th, 2018  
I quite like the idea of Taffyandie tours, especially if you could give some pointers on how to get such amazing results!
March 20th, 2018  
This must be one thing that it would be difficult to tire of photographing and you do it so well. I would LOVE to do one of your tours Taffy.
March 20th, 2018  
Tom
Instant fav..great image composition, color processing
March 21st, 2018  
Put me down for your tour any day Taffy. The HDR worked very well and the detail in this shot is amazing, those reflections are something else again! I particularly like the persepective you've used. Is the almost absence of people down to the cold weather? I've never been able to get a clear shot of public art in Melbourne (or Geelong).
March 21st, 2018  
Fun title and great reflection!
March 21st, 2018  
Wonderful. Great pov and processing.
March 21st, 2018  
Great shot of this nice artwork
March 21st, 2018  
@golftragic Wouldn't a photo trip to Chicago be great fun!!
March 22nd, 2018  
Great composition and placement of Flamingo. Love the reflections.
March 22nd, 2018  
angle, pov, and reflections make this an outstanding photo
March 22nd, 2018  
@taffy Wouldn't it just!! I'd love it. Maybe after our next trip (India and Sri Lanka) we should come to North America.
March 22nd, 2018  
So amazing!!
March 24th, 2018  
Very dramatic!
March 26th, 2018  
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