Saturday reflections

Here's something a little different: reflections in the windows of a hotel on Rush Street in Chicago, solarized into something even more abstract.

Saturday reflections

Chicago in blue and white.

Abstract

Just for fun.

This started out as a photo of the pipes and vents and other structures on a nearby roof, taken from my hotel room in Chicago. I switched the colors and added some double exposures, and ended up liking the result very much.

Because reality feels highly overrated these days.

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I was going to save this for the end of the week, but what the hell, it's a holiday.

A very cool bike rack, just off North Rush Street.

Random things I managed to see in Chicago

Right up my alley

Two samples of the Chicago-style alleyway, one charming with painted brick, those wrought iron hanging lights and the city looming in the background, and the other more typical big-city grunge, with giant beer cans and a dumpster.

I could live here, definitely

And I'm equally sure I could never afford to.

This is East Bellevue Place, a street of charming houses just off Michigan Avenue. It was chilly and getting dark and I didn't stop to try to get decent pictures from the other side of the trees lining the street. But I would have loved to be going up those front steps and into the warm glow of that living room.

John Hancock Center

Another look at the tower disappearing into the mists.

Water Tower

North Michigan Avenue, in the gloaming.

Saturday reflections

The Burberry store on North Michigan Avenue, up the street from my hotel in Chicago.

It had been raining most of the day and I didn't get outside until evening, but the gloom just enhances these reflections. The building is so insanely shiny that it takes advantage of every photon of light aimed its way.

Saturday reflections

Brick within brick.

I took this picture in June, in Chicago, but it has an autumnal air, with the leafless vines snaking up the bricks against the growly sky.

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A slice of the many levels of infrastructure making up elevated tracks in Chicago.

Saturday reflections

This is 333 West Wacker in Chicago, one of the few big buildings there known by an address rather than a name.

It's a curvy green mirror on the banks of the river, reflecting the buildings on the opposite bank, and acres and acres of sky.

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I love this: a new art installation that was being assembled in Millennium Park in Chicago when I was there in June.

Saturday reflections

This seems to go with the picture from the Apple store -- overlapping shapes and reflections from an atrium in Chicago.

Red white and blue

Here's another picture of the rusty, peeling train tracks in Chicago, done up in red, white and blue for the holiday.

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Patterns of light on the underside of the elevated tracks in Chicago.

Saturday reflections

This set of reflections in Chicago is a nice monochrome complement to those bright red chairs from Wednesday: small patterns, repeated.

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The seats at the Pritzker Pavilion bandshell in Millennium Park in Chicago.

Geometries/Saturday reflections

Here's something a little different for Saturday -- a split-level view from the Art Institute.

I have enough pictures of reflections from Chicago to supply weekly postings for the next several years. There are some reflections in this picture, but what I really like here are all the lines and rectangles, especially the squares within squares of a window seen through a window seen through a window.

And the silhouette of the man with his hands on his hips is the perfect finishing touch.