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Marcie - Extraordinary architectural image. Love the symmetry..and how you managed to keep all of the lines from converging. A wonderful old building.03/07/2010 - 3:41 am

Montucky - That's a beautiful piece of architecture! Great shot!03/07/2010 - 8:00 pm

Gandalf - Great perspective. There are so many interesting visuals in this photo from the reflection at the base of the water tower to the shadows on the big buildings. Very nice.03/08/2010 - 8:18 am

Molly - My neck kinda hurts thinking of looking up to get this photo. Your effort was worth it. Very nice.03/09/2010 - 10:42 am

Anna Surface - LOL all the way around. Strange looking mannequins and some store person has a weird sense of taste and humor. I sure would love to have a pair of binoculars, though. That is too funny of the little guy with the big gun camera coming over to snap what he thought you were snapping. I've had that happen too. There is nothing like going to a well-attended event and rubbing elbows with the big-time photographers with lens way out there. I'd be there totally involved with some little detail and here comes one of the big guns sniffing around wondering what I'm seeing. LOL Oh, I've had my picture taken too and I'd turn on a dime and take their picture. Funny, how when out with a camera slung around the neck you run into other photographers. Fun post, Bo.03/06/2010 - 8:48 pm

Montucky - I think that trash can deserved a much more elegant location that what it has. The manikins reminded me of an old college prank a couple of friends and I pulled off one time in Seattle. We stood on a down town street and stared and pointed to a spot well up on a tall building. We didn't say a word, but a crowd soon formed, all looking up where we were looking, After a bit, we sort of melted away, leaving the crowd all looking up, by that time with their own momentum.03/06/2010 - 9:18 pm

Sue - LOL Great post...and funny too!03/07/2010 - 12:41 pm

debsgarden - This is so funny! I especially like the brainless manikins. I think the guy was taking a picture of you, so he could tell the funny story of the photographer shooting a trash can!03/07/2010 - 8:08 pm

Gandalf - Great political commentary. Keep this one for election time. Unfortunately it applies to both parties.03/08/2010 - 8:16 am

Molly - Haha, that's a great story. Made me smile.03/09/2010 - 10:40 am

Gandalf - I just got a crick in my neck with that photo. Nice sky.03/05/2010 - 8:51 am

bernie kasper - Great shot Bo, love the perspective and the reflections are wonderful, well done !!03/05/2010 - 3:55 pm

Anna Surface - Great framing of the tall building by tall buildings pointing up. Nice reflections of the puffy cloud blue sky. :)03/05/2010 - 4:35 pm

Montucky - Great composition, and I love the sky.03/05/2010 - 11:06 pm

Molly - That sky is pretty, especially after all the gray skies we have had.03/07/2010 - 12:50 pm

Gandalf - Interesting photo and great idea linking to articles.03/03/2010 - 11:28 am

Joanna Young - Bo, thanks for the links - it's a nice addition to your material - and useful for the likes of me. Re the quote on not being able to help it... I'm no photographer but I know I can't help it either! Looking, searching, trying, climbing down into ditches, lying in the mud to get that little bit closer up... I just can't help it ;-)03/03/2010 - 1:19 pm

Bo Mackison - Yes indeed, Joanna. I so get that. I can't help taking photographs --anywhere, everywhere. And yes, Joanna, you too are a photographer. Stop denying it! :-)03/03/2010 - 1:34 pm

Debi - This is a great idea! Thanks for the links, Bo. I read a lot too and it's great to add even more photo sources. We can't learn too much, can we? Nope.03/03/2010 - 2:36 pm

Montucky - Excellent image, Bo! The scene has a wonderful fresh and bright look to it!03/03/2010 - 10:25 pm

Marcie - Love the lines..the curves..the color. What a wonderful architectural image rendered abstract!!!03/04/2010 - 7:40 am

Anna Surface - Oh, I really like the sweeping and colorful curves. I read a lot in photography too.I appreciate these links and I'm bookmarking Joe McNally’s article. Great idea, Bo. :)03/04/2010 - 8:37 am

Molly - I love the lines and light of this shot.03/04/2010 - 4:56 pm

Sue - Beautifully composed image. Love it! And, thanks for the links. I'm off to check them out!03/07/2010 - 12:37 pm

Marcie - Such a wonderful collection of musical instruments. Almost as if they're playing to us on the other side of the glass.02/05/2010 - 7:12 am

@Bosque_Bill - That's an attractive photo, though I'm not totally sure why. Obviously, interesting window contents "artfully" arranged. Having the window reflection seems to enhance it somehow, perhaps its the extra texture or since the subjects are partially obscured there is a bit of mystery thrown in.02/05/2010 - 12:38 pm

Sue - I live the composition of the story display, but I think it's the reflections in the window that makes this image interesting. It's one of those images that "the more I look, the more I see."02/06/2010 - 9:11 am

Molly - This one is really neat, reminds me of an old shop or something to that effect.02/07/2010 - 9:15 am

Gandalf - They missed an opportunity. The building could have been blue. :) Too bad.02/03/2010 - 5:15 pm

Montucky - That is an interesting building and a great shot! I didn't know there was a Smurfit Stone building. Smurfit is in bankruptcy now and perhaps the diamond will change hands.02/03/2010 - 7:41 pm

Sue - I like how you composed your image. And I LOVE the Chicago Art Institute! I need to go back for a visit. *sigh*02/04/2010 - 6:43 am

Marcie - Nice composition. It really does look like a diamond in that sky. I've never been to Chicago. Thanks for the tour!!!02/04/2010 - 7:20 am

Molly - Love this scene02/04/2010 - 10:28 am

Ed Vatza - Back some years now, i worked for a large ad agency. My office was in Philly but HQ was in Chicago. I did a lot of traveling but always felt Chicago was one of the nicest cities I visited. Good work on this one, Bo. How you likin' that E-P1?02/04/2010 - 10:43 am

Bo Mackison - I totally agree, Ed. Chicago is a great city.02/04/2010 - 1:03 pm

Debi - They don't quite look happy to be there. "Pa, we're not in Kansas anymore." LOL! Thanks for the photo, Bo!01/15/2010 - 6:25 am

Gandalf - LOL - those dudes could use some Head & Shoulders. :)01/15/2010 - 8:51 am

Montucky - Very thought provoking anachronism.01/15/2010 - 9:55 am

Molly - I have a feeling they don't fit in there. Hehe.01/15/2010 - 10:27 am

Anna - LOL Great shot and made me smile. From this perspective shot, they look very tall... and stern.01/16/2010 - 9:37 am

Marcie - This is just too precious..especially with the snow. Great find!!!!01/16/2010 - 4:25 pm

Preston - I love the colors in this statue. Normally statues have very little color. The suitcase really adds to the monument.01/17/2010 - 8:47 am

quinncreative - They are so stoic in all that snow. . .01/17/2010 - 9:16 pm

bernie kasper - That's too cool, thanks for sharing this !!01/19/2010 - 12:44 pm

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Gandalf - That's pretty interesting. The image is amazing, both distant and close up.01/14/2010 - 1:36 pm

Montucky - Fascinating!01/14/2010 - 11:30 pm

Debi - This sounds like a place that must be visited, if only for inspiration and sheer mass of adrenalin that must pump through your body when surrounded by these visions! To be around such creativity is heady stuff.01/15/2010 - 6:22 am

Molly - That's pretty cool01/15/2010 - 10:26 am

Marcie - Thank-you for this 'guided' tour. Wonderful!!!01/16/2010 - 4:26 pm

Gandalf - This is a way cool photo. I'd say the architect is a closet Tennessee fan.:)01/13/2010 - 7:26 am

Molly - I'd prefer purple :D01/13/2010 - 11:42 am

Montucky - I like the color too, bit I wonder how long I'd like it. Sure makes an attractive photo though!01/13/2010 - 7:40 pm

Bo Mackison - Terry, I'm thinking, if I were cramming for an exam, or if I'd had a long night maybe celebrating, I might not be too fond of so much orange, either.01/13/2010 - 7:45 pm

Debi - I could get used to orange when it's presented so beautifully. Thanks,Bo!01/15/2010 - 6:20 am

Marcie - Such an interesting structure. Always learning about something new...01/12/2010 - 7:05 am

Gandalf - Interesting subject and a very nice perspective with the differing colors in the tube and the sky.01/12/2010 - 8:14 am

Anna - Yowzers! That is a neat perspective and interesting!01/12/2010 - 8:32 am

Montucky - That's an interesting structure! I doubt if I would enjoy spending much time down under it though.01/12/2010 - 9:17 am

Molly - That would be pretty cool to see, as long as it did not fall...:)01/12/2010 - 10:33 am

Debi - Vastly interesting, Bo! I've never heard of this either! This blog of yours may change my mind about Chicago, but probably not about its traffic - LOL!01/12/2010 - 1:08 pm

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