Pam, Rosie, Junko, Andie, and I enjoyed the tour of the Rookery -- one of Chicago's most famous buildings because of the lobby, staircase, and conference room where Burnham and Root, along with other leading architects of the time, planned the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago -- and basically laid out the plans for how our city looks today (if you haven't read Devil & the White City, it's a great read set during that time). I took this from the conference room -- it made me think of the movie with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, hence the title.
See Pam's photo, with her amazing fisheye lens that we all coveted! http://365project.org/pamknowler/365-year-5/2017-04-27
And Rosie's of the lobby where we started the tour: http://365project.org/rosiekind/365/2017-04-27
And Junko's stairway shot: http://365project.org/jyokota/365/2017-04-27
wow! i love looking at those old fire escapes, they seem to have some magic for me. this is also a good entry for the artist challenge's harry callahan. aces! if i knew there was a meet up i could have flown over but it being 'month-end' time, the weekend would probably have been most ideal. oh, well, next time perhaps.
Fabulous Taffy and I also get that Rear window feeling! I took shots through the windows of the fire escape but need to edit them at home on my laptop. Fav!
I think these fire-escapes are quite fascinating subjects, the zig-zag stairways again the strong verticals and horizontals make a very interesting composition.
Taffy as you know I admire your work so much and I noticed you used 14mm on your lens. I was wondering if this is one of your favourite lenses and which one is it??
@olivetreeann@loweygrace Check out Netflix...I don't know if it is a book or not. Definitely was a movie -- here's the Wikipedia description:
Rear Window is a 1954 American Technicolor mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.
The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best[3] and one of the greatest movies ever made. The film received four Academy Award nominations and was ranked No. 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and No. 48 on the 10th-anniversary edition. In 1997, Rear Window was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
@taffy I meant book- The Devil and The White City. While most of Hitchcock's thrillers are mild compared to what's produced today, they're still too scary for me!
I was sure I had already commented and faved but I hadn't! I love your processing on this as well as the image you caught -- works well to visually show and tell a city story.
Rear Window is a 1954 American Technicolor mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and written by John Michael Hayes based on Cornell Woolrich's 1942 short story "It Had to Be Murder". Originally released by Paramount Pictures, the film stars James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter and Raymond Burr. It was screened at the 1954 Venice Film Festival.
The film is considered by many filmgoers, critics and scholars to be one of Hitchcock's best[3] and one of the greatest movies ever made. The film received four Academy Award nominations and was ranked No. 42 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list and No. 48 on the 10th-anniversary edition. In 1997, Rear Window was added to the United States National Film Registry in the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".