Wacker Drive

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Week 50, December 14-20, 2025 – Architecture

December 20th, 2025

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“Painted Building”

December 14th, 2025

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“Ripply Towers & Reflection” & “Skyline of Colors”

October 6th, 2025

almost a painting

I love photographic reflections because they lead the viewer to look more than once, hopefully to investigate what caused the distortion, the odd lines, or the extra shapes. This image makes me take second and third glances each time … and I took the photo!

I absolutely love that the St. Regis is reflecting the buildings across the river almost as if you were viewing a painting.

p.s. After posting this image a few places, two people chimed in: “what if you edited this to be a square and removed the trees?” and “that looks like you could give it a pop of color!”. Now we all know people who offer their opinions a bit too much, but differing opinions can add value to our lives, and in this image’s editing, I think ultimately the image benefits from their opinions.

Week 53, December 31, 2023 – January 6, 2024 – End of the Year

January 6th, 2024

Tagged 2022, 2023, 22.11.06, 23.01.22, 23.05.10, 23.07.04, 23.07.18, 23.09.28, 28-200 f2.8-5.6, A7r3, abstract, arch, architecture, art, art museum, artwork, auto, auto show, balcony, birch tree, black & white, car, car show, Chevy Belair, Chicago, Chicago IL, Chicago River, Chicago River Walk, Chicago skyline, chrome, clouds, color, CTA, Dupage County Forest Preserve, Dupage County IL, Elgin IL, engine, fireworks, forest, Fox River, hood, hot rod, human, Huntley Del Webb, Huntley IL, Jan23, January, Jul23, July, Lake Street Bridge, light trails, lights, long exposure, May, May23, motor, night photo, Nov22, November, orange, railing, reflection, reflections, ripples, river, river walk, Sears Tower, Sept23, September, silhouette, Sony, Springbrook Prairie Forest Preserve, stairs, stream, sun, Sun City Huntley stream falls, sunset, tail lights, The Art Institute of Chicago, the L, train, tree, treeline, trees, Wacker Dr, Wacker Drive, water, waterfall, waterfalls, Wauconda Cruise Night, Wauconda Cruise Night 2023, Wauconda IL, Week 53 2023, WEEKS, WEEKS 2023, WEEKS 2024, white, Willis Tower, window

“Layers of Lights”

January 3rd, 2024

light trails at Chicago River

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I’ve captured many images from this location over the past 15 years, but it’s only been the past 2 or 3 years that I tried to capture light trails of the Wells Street bridge’s CTA tracks. I love the light trails in this photo, now I just need to capture a bicyclist with lights on their bike riding down the river walk ramp.

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