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shutterspeedSo, timing is everything. I've lived in the city (Chicago) proper for 10 years, but I'd never really been to Millennium Park. But a group I belong to had a photo hike scheduled for there today. Just in time for the end of this appature. :)
Anyway, there's a structure at the entrance to the park that's officially called "Cloud Gate," but not one person I know actually calls it that. We all call it "The Bean". It's a big mirrored bean that sucks in photographers from an 18 mile radius, I swear. I have never seen more cameras in one place since the last time I went to a camera shop. Most play inside where you can stand on your own head and stuff, but I was having fun taking shots outside.
The Chicago skyline, both in front of and behind me. (Yes, that little orange and blue blob at the bottom left is your intrepid photographer.)
See why it's called "The Bean"?
For those who like their reflections a little more abstract... It makes it look like the section of The Bean is made from tiles the same shape as the ones on the ground.
End of The Bean. Again, you see what is both in front of me and behind me. It would be so *fabulously* scifi if they could get a garden in behind where I was standing so you'd have this very urban background and then the garden reflected in The Bean... but I don't think they're going to redo the whole part of the park just for me. :)
Anyway, there's a structure at the entrance to the park that's officially called "Cloud Gate," but not one person I know actually calls it that. We all call it "The Bean". It's a big mirrored bean that sucks in photographers from an 18 mile radius, I swear. I have never seen more cameras in one place since the last time I went to a camera shop. Most play inside where you can stand on your own head and stuff, but I was having fun taking shots outside.
The Chicago skyline, both in front of and behind me. (Yes, that little orange and blue blob at the bottom left is your intrepid photographer.)
See why it's called "The Bean"?
For those who like their reflections a little more abstract... It makes it look like the section of The Bean is made from tiles the same shape as the ones on the ground.
End of The Bean. Again, you see what is both in front of me and behind me. It would be so *fabulously* scifi if they could get a garden in behind where I was standing so you'd have this very urban background and then the garden reflected in The Bean... but I don't think they're going to redo the whole part of the park just for me. :)