Chicago Lights
Howdy, y’all!
Hey, as you may or may not know, this weekend I’m in Chicago attending SOBCon09. I’m tellin’ ya; it’s a great place to learn a lot about the business of blogging and the ROI of relationships.
But besides the great conference, I just love comin’ to downtown Chicago because it’s so beautiful! The river, the bridges, the architecture – hey, it’s an amazing place!
I shot this photo Thursday night with my iPhone. Not bad, eh?
I’ll be back on Monday, when we kick off our next What I Learned From… (WILF) groupwrite project. So don’t forget to put it on your calendar!
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The Chicago skyline is remarkably beautiful, Robert. Wish I were live at Chicago City…lol
Nice shot- I assume you put the phone on a railing or something to keep it steady? My pics from my iPhone at night all end up looking like the light show at a Grateful Dead show in 60′s, all blurry and with lights appearing to move when they are in fact still. I’ve pretty much given up on night shots- I just take mental pictures and move on these days. Hope the conf was good for ya.
@Wilson – Too bad you couldn’t make SOBCon, Wilson; it would be a great growth opportunity for you!
@John – Actually, I use a free iPhone app called Darkroom to take the shot. What it does is pretty simple – but quite important. When you push the shutter button, it uses the phone’s accellerometer to wait until you’re holding the phone completely steady – then it takes the shot. Since I started using it, images come out a lot less blurry due to my unsteady hands. Pretty slick!
Brilliant light, really beautiful. A masterpiece of the industrial ageï¼
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Wow! The photo is breath-taking.
It’s like I want it to be alive and moving.
I like the golden effect of the yellow lights against the calm night. Really amazing.
Thanks for sharing this.
@Sunrainet – Thanks for sayin’ so! I was surprised at how well it came out – it was only a camera phone.
@Uprinting – Yeah, the memory of the actual scene provides the motion that’s missing. Very peaceful scene.
It looks beautiful… Chicago has always been one of my dream cities. I work in a medical field and there are many medical shows located in Chicago and that’s why
, but it’s really beautiful too!
@Teru – Yeah, why is it that Chicago gets all the good medical shows? We have a great medical center right here in Houston! I guess Chicago is a mite more photogenic.