The Brown Line

Chicago's downtown business district is called "the Loop." It got this name from the CTA (Chicago Transit Authority) El ("elevated) tracks that form a look around the city. We have one of the oldest elevated/subway systems in the United States -- maybe the oldest -- and this section today is called the 'brown line." All our lines are a color -- visitors take the Blue Line in from O'Hare or the Orange line in from Midway.

[Margaret Obey]

Another really interesting shot to look at closely.

[Richard Hickey]

Awesome picture.

[Tony]

Interesting capture, was it taken through dirty glass ??

[Taffy]

@tonydebont Heehee! No, it was taken on a relatively nice day, but processed using a new program called SnapArt (new to me). I can't remember which one this is -- I think it's charcoal, and then I did some more tweaking in Nik Silver Efex.

[Brigette]

love the processing. makes it a bit olde....

[Sue Wilde]

It makes it look a bit like a scratched negative. Nicely done

[Pam Knowler]

I thought it was a ticket tape parade at first! Unusual effect.

[Sally Ings]

Lots to look at, cool processing. Makes it look like a vintage photo

[Newbank Lass]

Love the processing.

[Leon Buijs]

Very interesting capture with lots to look at, like the processing which makes it look like an old cracked photograph

[Kane Arlow]

Awesome processing, and thanks for the history lesson too. I find American history very interesting.

[Rachel]

This processing makes it look like such an old shot. Very clever.

[Cazla]

There processing almost makes it look like its snowing! Very interesting to look at.

[Jo]

This is really cool, has an old world feel to it.

[Je77rey]

Brilliant! Love this

[Kerri]

Great b&w

[Angie]

Superb

[Eric di Bosco]

Lovely composition...would love to see this in plain B&W...

[Penny Price]

Love this, the comp is great and I like the snow effect - real or not. Fav.

[Suse♡]

Awesome processing, love that effect -it looks a bit like it would be snowing

[Graham Thresher]

A marvellous capture and a super Fav

[Sarah Munnings]

I thought Chicago had had a snowstorm!

[Kathie]

At first I thought it was snowing. Glad I was wrong. Neat processing.

[Taffy]

@pennyp Penny, thanks as always for your support and for the fav! I used a processing choice that was called charcoal. I hadn't thought about it looking like snow!

[Shelley]

Great processing.