Chicago, Illinois pictures are now available as framed prints in our Framed Art Pictures shop at Cafe Press. Currently featured are: Buckingham Fountain, Macy’s clock, Flamingo sculpture, downtown sculpture, and horsedrawn carriage ride. More Chicago photos will be added frequently.
The Chicago picture below is a downtown streetscene with Macy’s clock.
We photographed a lot of fish tanks at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago last week. One of our favorite tropical fish was the Red Devil Cichlid (Amphilophus labiatus) from Nicaragua. That fish tank was photographed by Derk with our digital Nikon.
The digital picture itself is fine, but each fish is only about 2 inches long. We wanted to open a new section in our Fish Lover Gifts shop for Red Cichlid Tropical Fish.
The Cafe Press design format for adult clothing uses 10 inches wide design. After enlarging the digital picture we decided to turn it into a drawing. Isn’t PhotoShop great? We have often used Poster Edges effect for clothing.
It took a lot of research, but, we finally found a film processor, located in the Chicago downtown Loop, who would develop E6 slide film in 4 hours- Gamma on W. Superior. Eight rolls were developed. Everything came out looking super, so, nothing needs to be re-photographed.
Yesterday we worked the Shedd Aquarium and surrounding area for 3 hours. It’s a cool spot from which to photograph the Chicago skyline. Millennial Park is another good place for skyline pictures.
Shedd has interesting exhibits showing different water levels occurring in nature and the fish and reptiles that live in each different water level. There are also special tanks for the areas in the world with cichlids.
Herp lovers will enjoy the large lizard exhibit. There are frilly dragons, bearded dragons, chameleons, gecko, basilisk, komodo dragons, and more.
Today we worked the stores and area of North Michigan Avenue and the Chicago River, including Water Tower Place. The newest upscale shopping mall is 900 North Michigan. We enjoyed a delicious lunch at the Oak Tree Restaurant there.
A favorite photogaphic study of mine is store windows and reflections. Even better is having a pedestrian looking in the window, too. Tiffany’s Michigan Avenue windows were some used today. That film won’t be developed until next week. then we’ll add a window reflection picture here.
Today, one of several projects is making travel plans for photography assignments. We will be working downtown Chicago, Illinois, in September and San Francisco, California, in November. San Diego, California, may be added in October.
Current plans include 4 days of photography in Chicago of downtown museums, shopping, and waterfront. The zoo will be added if time allows. We lived in Chicago for 5 years and downtown for 3 months, so, are very familiar with the photo ops.
Photobuyers looking for fresh, current Chicago images are welcome to email us at kphotos@earthlink.net.
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