Foggy Day Urbex

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I was out exploring and shooting a couple weeks ago when Chicago was blanketed in fog. The streets of downtown were great. I was attracted to the bluish-gray hue. I enhanced the blue in the following two images in post to emphasize the mood I felt while shooting. A friend remarked that the space in between the buildings in the middle of the frame looks itself like an upside down skyscraper. It does!

Melancholy in the Loop

The yellow of the street lighting was a nice contrast to the blue. I am not a patient photographer. I should have waited for a train to arrive at my station for additional foreground interest. I have another shot like this I took last year where there I did wait for a train, so I guess I simply felt it wasn't needed.

RUMP Tower ;P

Then I switched to monochrome for a more gritty urban mood in the following two images. I love how the fog in the air made the lights glow. The first image was shot in my neighborhood. There is a viaduct on every block for quite a long stretch. I love them. Some of them still have exposed cobblestone. A railway runs along the top on the left side of the frame.

The lighted path

The lighted dots in the upper half of the frame are lights from a distant highrise. They look a bit like stars.

Urban geometry of alleyways

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Chicago in a fog

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Chicago was enveloped in fog for a few days last week. I ventured out to the Museum Campus area by the lake, first not knowing what I would capture. When I saw that visibility over the water wasn't very far I knew I wanted to show that in a minimalist shot like this in a square format.

Minimalist

The thickness of the fog made it difficult to see the museums from afar. I thought I would use some humor with this caption because the Adler Planetarium is supposed to be at the end of this embankment. I originally wanted to make monochrome images because of the gray day. But I decided to stay with color and gave them a bit of tone, blue for the images above and below this one because of the water, and just a hint of green for this image because trees are an element.

Behold! The Adler Planetarium

The building in the foreground is the John G Shedd Aquarium. Normally in the background would be the great Chicago skyline. It could not be seen on this day until I got to the other side of the aquarium where the fog wasn't as dense as it is here.

Two men enjoying the beautiful Chicago skyline

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