Shutterspeed

First I have a picture of "Time".  I put out a home-made snow gauge during the blizzard earlier this month and ran out hourly to get a picture as the snow accumulated and blogged the storm.  At one point I went out, got my 9:00 shot, walked around the block for a bit getting pictures of the buried cars and unplowed streets and dogs in the snow.  When I got home, 12 minutes later, we'd accumulated another inch of snow.  AN INCH in 12 MINUTES!



And some purple flowers.
( 3 varieties of purple... )

Okay, I've been sadly negligent in posting things here.  I've been busy setting up my photography blog, so I've been editing things, but once I got things up on the blog I kind of fell over from exhaustion. :p

Anyway... a few of the prompts I've missed...

So apparently it's dragonfly mating season... fortunately I didn't get shots of that per se, but I did get some fabulous shots of the suitors and suitees.

From two different ponds in the middle of Chicago... (click to make the bugs bigger)


( Black and white and red all over... more dragonflies )

So, 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.)