"Chicago, Chicago, My Kind of Town" by taffy

"Chicago, Chicago, My Kind of Town"

Lyrics from a song made famous by Frank Sinatra. Taken from the Planetarium looking east across Lake Michigan to the city skyline. Comprised of 3 shots taken at sunset in a cloudless sky, imported together in picmonkey and cleaned up in Photoshop, after my frostbitten fingers defrosted. Best on black. Don't look too closely for the seams! Low building on left is the Aquarium, tallest is Sears then over to Navy Pier on the far right.
Thanks for your kind comments on the lily collage! My favorite was the lower right for a few who wondered or offered theirs.
New challenge: city/town - http://365project.org/discuss/themes-competitions/26922/january-town-2016
beautiful panorama - gorgeous light
January 3rd, 2016  
@pamknowler, @golftragic, @newbank, @888rachel, @jgpittenger
Jane's email to me today got me to leave the house for some photography ops. Thanks Jane. This isn't a single wide-angle, but three wide-angles at 28mm. Not the super-wide, but hoping this 'counts' for the WA/fisheye focus this week. And learned something new in PS!!
January 3rd, 2016  
Lovey shot Taffy
January 3rd, 2016  
Great job! The colors are exquisite!
January 3rd, 2016  
Wow... this is amazing! FAV.
January 3rd, 2016  
Brilliant - fav.
January 3rd, 2016  
Wow! Great shot
January 3rd, 2016  
beautiful panorama, great lighting;
January 3rd, 2016  
Beautiful stitch! Fav!
January 3rd, 2016  
That sky.....Fav!
January 3rd, 2016  
beautiful-fav
January 3rd, 2016  
Oh yes this counts all right! What a gorgeous view! A beautiful panorama Taffy! The colour of that sky is wonderful! You are just spoiled for choice for your photography - I can't wait for May when you can take me round "your kind of town!" . I just hope I can capture some of its beauty - fingers crossed fir the weather and that important extra - good light! Fav of course!
January 3rd, 2016  
What a pano, with amazing colors in the sky... what terrific photography town. :) Wonderful job.
January 3rd, 2016  
What a Fabulous Picture and Thank-You for tagging it to januarytown2016
January 3rd, 2016  
Stunning!
January 3rd, 2016  
Fantastic skyline!
January 3rd, 2016  
Gorgeous color tones in this beautifully composed skyline!
January 3rd, 2016  
Wonderful panorama - great spot to be shooting from - love the early evening light.
January 3rd, 2016  
Great panorama.. neat colour
January 3rd, 2016  
It's so beautiful!
January 3rd, 2016  
Wonderful tones! Beautiful skyline!
January 3rd, 2016  
Beautiful panorama created in wonderful light!I didn't know Pickmonkey had a stitch option.
January 3rd, 2016  
Oh Taffy, this is wonderful. So glad you dropped the studies for a bit and went out to see and capture this. Well done. I love how the sky changes color left to right
January 3rd, 2016  
AMAZING capture!! FAV
January 3rd, 2016  
This is gorgeous! Love the panoramic look. The Sunset colors help show the different high rises of the area. I am in love with this pic. Fav!
January 3rd, 2016  
Stunning :)
January 3rd, 2016  
Very nice pano indeed!!
January 3rd, 2016  
Beautiful pano. Great colour. I also didn't know that Picmonkey could stitch photos together.
January 3rd, 2016  
Stunning capture. Fav
January 3rd, 2016  
@salza @my_photofun Hi Sally and Darinka...sorry to mislead. in picmonkey, I created the collage of the three images side by side, and then in PS I used the blending brush to make the seams blend rather than be lines from the edges. In picmonkey, the important thing was to put the three into a collage and then remove the spaces from between the photos, but then the seams still showed a little which is why I had to finish it in PS. In PS, it wouldn't align the first photo for some reason, only the 2nd and 3rd. I don't know PS well enough to problem solve.
January 3rd, 2016  
@taffy Thanks Taffy, that sounds like a cool way to do it especially if PS is not aligning it correctly!
January 3rd, 2016  
@salza I changed it to imported from stitched as I realized I was using a technical term as slang and it really was misleading.
January 3rd, 2016  
Picmonkey looks like a powerful app. Lovely golden colour showing the great city.
January 3rd, 2016  
That is fantastic! Never would have thought to do this with picmonkey. I must try out this type of pano some time!
January 3rd, 2016  
This is perfect!
January 3rd, 2016  
I love taking skyline shots from the Adler. This is really spectacular, Taffy! :)
January 3rd, 2016  
agree; absolutely beautiful shot
January 3rd, 2016  
Stunning, A beautiful skyline shot love the colours
January 3rd, 2016  
Love the graduated colour across the skyline.
January 3rd, 2016  
Such a fantastic colour
January 3rd, 2016  
Gorgeous colour in the sky :)
January 3rd, 2016  
Beautiful scene and wonderful light, especially in the left part of the image. Did you use manual settings? because the right part of the image seems to be much darker then the left (might be the reason PS didn't align)
January 3rd, 2016  
Fabulous pano of Chicago. Love the outlines and the colour. An exciting image.
January 3rd, 2016  
Wow. Fav.
January 3rd, 2016  
just mind blowing
January 3rd, 2016  
Jo
A beautiful shot and really great on black.
January 3rd, 2016  
Well done Taffy a fabulous panorama, we have City and Urban scapes in March at Camera Club and you have inspired me to have a go at some panoramas.
January 3rd, 2016  
It's a great view in the golden light.
January 3rd, 2016  
Beautiful panorama! It is supposed to be partially sunny today, but I have my doubts about the clouds clearing. However it is only 9am as I write this so there is time. See you at three!
January 3rd, 2016  
This is beautiful!
January 3rd, 2016  
This is great.
I want to visit one day!
January 3rd, 2016  
Wonderful panoramic shot. Fav!
January 3rd, 2016  
LOVE IT, of course! Happy New Year, Taffy!
January 3rd, 2016  
Fantastic pano, composition, sky colors
January 3rd, 2016  
This is stunning Taffy and I spend a while looking for the seams but failed to find them!
January 3rd, 2016  
Stunning shot! I can't see any seams, brilliant job.
January 3rd, 2016  
Awesome as always Taffy
January 3rd, 2016  
Epic skyline. Awesome colours!{shady}
January 3rd, 2016  
Wonderful panoramic view. Fav!! 😃
January 3rd, 2016  
I've been following you for awhile and love your work. I finally started posting my own photo's so thanks for the inspiration.
January 3rd, 2016  
Love the song and love the photo - and always love the work which goes into your photos.
January 3rd, 2016  
Lovely.
January 3rd, 2016  
This is beautiful
January 3rd, 2016  
A classic cityscape! Wonderful.
January 3rd, 2016  
Beautiful shot. Fav
January 3rd, 2016  
I love Chicago and this really captures it.
January 3rd, 2016  
Great panorama of this famous city
January 3rd, 2016  
What is it with songs this evening, I'm humming 'I Can see clearly know', then along came Country roads and now it's Chicago! Love the shot
January 3rd, 2016  
Love this!! The colors against the city are great. While I did make it to Shedd, didn't make it all of the way over to the planetarium but after seeing this, that is on my list for my next trip up!
January 3rd, 2016  
Awesome sunset and panorama. Congratulations on making the Trending Page and the PP. Well deserved.
January 4th, 2016  
Now that's a fantastic cityscape !!
January 4th, 2016  
Awesome panoramic shot Taffy!
January 4th, 2016  
fabulous
January 4th, 2016  
Great panorama.
January 4th, 2016  
An amazing capture!!! Breathtaking! FAV
January 4th, 2016  
Oh yes Taffy, it definitely counts. It's a beauty. Fav.
January 4th, 2016  
I love Chicago!And this shot!fav
January 4th, 2016  
Absolutely stunning shot. Love the golden glow. Brings to mind the play by J B Priestley - They Came to a City. fav
January 4th, 2016  
Wow! Beautiful tones.
January 4th, 2016  
What a beautiful shot of the skyline. I love the colors in the sky as well. Amazing, Taffy. FAV
January 4th, 2016  
@darsphotos Thanks for the fav, Darlene!
January 4th, 2016  
This is just stunning Taffy. I like the shapes of the skyline, and that gentle orange light. Fav
January 4th, 2016  
It's stunning, I love the colours. Such an interesting skyline, I could look at it for ages.
January 4th, 2016  
great photo and great editing!
January 4th, 2016  
Great pano, lovely hues and light on the buildings brings out their shapes beautifully.
I do envy you folk who can line shots up for a pano, I'm rubbish at it - end up with something about a micron tall!
January 4th, 2016  
The New Year starts with a BANG, Taffy. Adore this pano. Fav.
January 4th, 2016  
Excellent panoramic shot Taffy.
January 4th, 2016  
Super panorama...fav
January 4th, 2016  
Lee
Great panorama, I love the atmospheric feel to this shot. Make me want to visit there.
January 4th, 2016  
Superb shot of Chi-town!!! Just beautiful. If you hadn't said anything about stitching I would have never known it wasn't a one-shot pano, beautifully done.
January 5th, 2016  
Fabulous city, capture!
January 5th, 2016  
Absolutely gorgeous!
January 5th, 2016  
And you somehow managed to apply the rule or thirds too! Superb panorama!
January 5th, 2016  
@cjphoto Thanks for noticing!!
January 6th, 2016  
Beautiful cityscape! fav
January 8th, 2016  
An awesome skyline. Gorgeous time of day, too! Love this!
January 8th, 2016  
Congrats on the TT, love the golden glow.
January 9th, 2016  
Congrats on TT! No 1 again! Wow!
January 9th, 2016  
@pamknowler @salza Thanks Pam and Sally. It really was exciting to see it there...it was 'the' photo when I decided to pick up my camera again after not unpacking it for over a week. I'm so glad I went out that day!
January 9th, 2016  
Congrats on #1 - fav
January 9th, 2016  
Congrats Taffy :)
January 9th, 2016  
Congrats Taffy
January 10th, 2016  
Congrats on #1 on TT Taffy!
January 10th, 2016  
Congrats on #1 Taffy. It made me smile when I saw it, because of your story of taking it. Well worth the cold hands I think!
January 10th, 2016  
So fantastic to see this #1 on TT...congratulations!
January 11th, 2016  
Great shot. Deservedly top twenty.
January 11th, 2016  
Jo
Fabulous, an instant fav.
January 13th, 2016  
Congratulations Taffy on this incredible image making it not only to the Top Twenty, but the top of the Top Twenty! FAV!
January 13th, 2016  
Delightful iconic skyline! Love the letterbox crop!
January 13th, 2016  
Jo
Congrats on the top slot Taffy, its a fab shot.
January 15th, 2016  
Hello Taffy R , Just a quick note to let you know I have included this photograph in to the Final 6 of the January Town 2016 competition.

Kindest Regards Stephen
January 22nd, 2016  
Taffy, I love looking at your albums but this one has just got me gobsmacked. The sky color, the sharpness of the skyline, and--well, just everything about this panoramic shot hits all of my "Perfect Picture" buttons. Your work inspires me to try harder when I'm wondering if there's any way to make my limited "at work and commute" photo opportunities better. And congrats on being a finalist for the January Town 2016 challenge!
January 22nd, 2016  
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