Chicago Water Tower from Michigan Avenue by taffy

Chicago Water Tower from Michigan Avenue

I've posted images of the water tower before, with information about its standing as one of two surviving buildings from before the Great Chicago Fire in the 1800s. It was the golden hour with the lights just coming up and I thought it looked beautiful in that lighting. I had to wait to capture it without any traffic.
Extras album view of today's snowstorm
1: http://365project.org/taffy/special-photos/2014-01-05
2: http://365project.org/taffy/the-also-ran-ph/2014-01-05
*******Remember that tomorrow is the last day for the ETSOOI-26 challenge - http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/20318/etsooi-26-new-challenge-starting ************
Magnificent! FAV!
January 6th, 2014  
Wow. They don't make water towers like that anymore. The reddish glow is beautiful.
January 6th, 2014  
Nia
wonderful architecture! Tried to look up on your other image whether any water is stored here - trying to understand the name - Water towers around here look like alien space ships.
January 6th, 2014  
Caz
Amazing, love the detail and light !
January 6th, 2014  
@calm Thanks so much for the fav, Cathy!
@rvwalker Thanks Ross -- it's one of my favorite buildings we have.
@sianipops Thanks Nia -- no, now it's the place for Hottix and things like that for tourism (across the street anyway at the other building). This one has exhibits here and there. They are really stunning iconic buildings in the city.
@cazann Thanks Caz!!
January 6th, 2014  
That's a favorite of mine as well! I've snapped it a few times, but yours is excellent!
January 6th, 2014  
What a fantastic building.beautiful caoture
January 6th, 2014  
lovely shot! Such an amazing building! A fave!
January 6th, 2014  
Amazing detail and gorgeous lighting ... it positively glows! Fav.
January 6th, 2014  
stunning!
January 6th, 2014  
This is an amazing building. Such fabulous detail
January 6th, 2014  
Beautiful
January 6th, 2014  
You have highlighted the textures beautifully. Great image.
January 6th, 2014  
I guessed this was you even as I saw this on Trending ..and was thinking fav :-)
January 6th, 2014  
Great photo!
January 6th, 2014  
Beautiful building, fantastic architecture. Very impressive
January 6th, 2014  
This is amazing.
January 6th, 2014  
nice architecture, tones, and lighting
January 6th, 2014  
What an amazing looking building. Was it once used to store water? Our water towers are nothing like that.
January 6th, 2014  
Such a detailed building. You've captured it so well.
January 6th, 2014  
cool
January 6th, 2014  
Lovely colour
January 6th, 2014  
Lovely colours Taffy ;)
January 6th, 2014  
Wow, what a beautiful shot, Taffy. Love the detail you captured. FAV
January 6th, 2014  
Super image, you're patience for just the right lighting sure paid off!
January 6th, 2014  
Wonderful shot Taffy. Love the HDR effect.
January 6th, 2014  
What a gorgeous building.
January 6th, 2014  
Incredible texture and glowing light on this architectural wonder. I love those turrets! You're a master Taffy! Fav.
January 6th, 2014  
@redy4et Thanks Elizabeth!! For the comment and the fav. I appreciate it! (yes, a night owl night)
January 6th, 2014  
Great shot. Lovely architecture!
January 6th, 2014  
Love the red bricks patterns and your POV. Well captured, dear Taffy.
January 6th, 2014  
Waaw !! so much detail ,textures and most of all a great architectural feast to the eyes Taffy this is a beautiful capture in a delightful enhancing light and a certain fav for me
January 6th, 2014  
Beautiful structure and tones.
January 6th, 2014  
Nice capture!
January 6th, 2014  
Wonderful detail ...
January 6th, 2014  
Wonderful capture - great architecture
January 6th, 2014  
Stunning capture! Love the tones and amazing composition.
January 6th, 2014  
fantastic detail
January 6th, 2014  
splendid texture and congratulations on the Trending page !
January 6th, 2014  
Wonderful comp. So many interesting details!
January 6th, 2014  
Mac
Beautiful detail! Your caption made me think of the song, "The Night Chicago Died" Old.
January 6th, 2014  
That's beautiful! The lighting is very special- well captured!
January 6th, 2014  
Wow, fab shot and beautiful processing.
January 6th, 2014  
Love little castle in the middle of a modern city!!! Wonderful capture. Please stay warm and safe in the "arctic vortex" occurring in so much of the east coast. Scary!
January 6th, 2014  
So beautiful. Interesting how it blends into its surroundings from this angle - normally I think of it as looking so out of place!
January 6th, 2014  
What a gem, great capture
January 6th, 2014  
fabulous architectural shot, stunning!
January 6th, 2014  
What gorgeous architecture - I'm such a lover of vintage!
January 6th, 2014  
Great picture!
January 6th, 2014  
I have never been to Chicago, but this is exactly how I picture the architecture in my mind's eye. Super shot with so much detail to look at and so many wonderful shapes.
January 6th, 2014  
What a superb shot of such a stunning building i wonder what it would look like as A3 shot and framed...? I just love the way the sun has made the reds in the brick almost jump out at you, just stunning @taffy
January 6th, 2014  
Old world charm reigns!
January 6th, 2014  
@salemslot What is A3? Thanks for your kind comments!
January 6th, 2014  
Great interesting achitectural shot, thank you for showing us these gorgeous buildings!
January 6th, 2014  
Love the warm glow from the windows and the wreaths still present. Beautiful building, love the contrast between old and new.
January 6th, 2014  
Wonderful architecture and textures!!
January 6th, 2014  
Fantastic detail and beautiful light. I was in Chicago at a conference in 2006 and took a tour of the buildings. I have a photo I took then, but no way as good as this!
January 6th, 2014  
Fantastic mix of architectural styles! A3 is a standard size for paper and prints (although I think it might be a UK/european standard). Fav
January 6th, 2014  
@gazbadger Thanks for the info on A3! It's hard to decide which photo(s) to frame from my 365 project. It would be fun to do some kind of rotating thing in a digital frame but I'm such a luddite when it comes to those!
@salemslot
January 6th, 2014  
Beautiful architectural shot, really like the combination of the old water tower structure with the modern building behind it.
January 6th, 2014  
Cool architecture with great textures. Love your shot of it showing it all off so well
January 6th, 2014  
Love the contrasts and detail here. Fav
January 6th, 2014  
Fab architecture.
January 6th, 2014  
Amazing building! Great shot!
January 6th, 2014  
A3 is roughly 297mm x 420mm or 29.7cm x 42cm which is the next size up from A4, that is 210mm x 297mm and A3 looks superb when printed and mounted in a frame. We use it at my camera club for exhibitions and for competitions.
January 6th, 2014  
@salemslot Thanks Paul, good to know!
January 6th, 2014  
Awesome building. Never seen a water tower like this . ( And we still have plenty in our country) Beautiful capture to show us and thanks for the links and explanation
January 6th, 2014  
Awesome building, fantastic capture!
January 6th, 2014  
Fav, Spectacular!
January 6th, 2014  
Incredible capture of amazing architecture.
January 6th, 2014  
Great image, almost unreal.
January 6th, 2014  
Fantastic image! The texture is awesome!!
January 6th, 2014  
Phenomenal perspective and detail!
January 6th, 2014  
I came back to add my fav!
January 6th, 2014  
@skipt07 THank you for the fav, Skip!! THat was nice of you to come back to do it!
January 6th, 2014  
A beautiful building and gorgeous warm light!! great textures!! Fav!!
January 6th, 2014  
Fab textures, my friend. Great architectural shot!!
January 7th, 2014  
Splendid FAV!
January 7th, 2014  
Nicely captured! Love all the texture.
January 7th, 2014  
@pamknowler @amandal @sunraye @olivetreeann Thanks Pam, Amanda, Raye, and Ann. I loved reading your comments and Pam and Raye, thanks for the special fav!
January 7th, 2014  
Well they certainly don't build things like this nowadays, more's the pity. I was really surprised to read it was a water tower, I thought it was a religious building of some sort. Beautiful light on that lovely old stone.
January 7th, 2014  
beautiful building
January 7th, 2014  
That is a beautiful building and love the shot!
January 7th, 2014  
Marvelous capture of the Water Tower! Lovely building and light!
January 7th, 2014  
That's beautiful architecture buildings. Great capture!
January 7th, 2014  
WOW - stunning - love the architecture and the capture - fav!
January 8th, 2014  
Wonderful light. You make architecture look soooo good.
January 8th, 2014  
Stunning.......you've captured so many details!
January 9th, 2014  
Fabulous detail on this :)
January 9th, 2014  
amazing! such great composition and details!
January 13th, 2014  
So meaningful. Thanks so much for posting this really neat image. Fav'd! :)
January 16th, 2014  
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