Taken from North Avenue beach.
A discussion of this photo's merits in the CremaMe group can be found here: flickr.com/groups/creamme/discuss/78476/
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This photo was taken on September 12, 2001 in Chicago, Illinois, US.
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dgphilli, ElectricSprout, YF [ yffoto ], kurtosis, and 199 other people added this photo to their favorites.
dooda (84 months ago | reply)
Man you captured a pretty wicked blue there.
YF [ yffoto ] (84 months ago | reply)
Beautiful!!
dpnash (84 months ago | reply)
That's just amazing. Mind if I ask what sort of camera and exposure you used for this?
peggy. (84 months ago | reply)
wow, so beautiful!
The New No. 2 (84 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the compliments eveybody.
Some more info about the pic: This was taken 4 years ago with a nikon coolpix 950. This is a stitch of 2 pics so I don't have the EXIF info handy, but it was hand held - no tripod.
puzzled frog (84 months ago | reply)
Incredible!
Studio E (84 months ago | reply)
Spectacular shot. Such beautiful colors!
Kalense Kid (84 months ago | reply)
i really like this picture. the saturation smacks you between the eyes, and the row of streetlights makes a wonderful contribution to this great composition. the skyline is magnificent.
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sous les pavés, la plage (84 months ago | reply)
beautiful colours, good composition. The birds (I guess the spots in the sky are birds ...) should be removed, they are irritating.
but still:
voted as "saveme" (from Delete me! group)
Janet {Hyggelig Photography} (84 months ago | reply)
An amazing picture
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Carl M. (84 months ago | reply)
and a bird too! Gotta love it. May my camera one day lead me to a great sunset like this.
voted as "saveme4" (from Delete me! group)
kurtosis (84 months ago | reply)
put it in the valut.
voted as "saveme" (from Delete me! group)
EricByers (84 months ago | reply)
I love the sky, and then of course the uniform blacked out city.
voted "saveme6"
doggyBag (84 months ago | reply)
I love the skyline part of the picture. I hate the overexposed sky in the left part of the picture. ....and there is some crap in the sky that should be removed, can't tell what it is... dust? UFO maybe?
Deleteme
ibarak (84 months ago | reply)
a mi me parece un paisaje mas, nada fuera de lo comun, una linda foto
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_barb_ (84 months ago | reply)
gorgeous. works beautifully. the light details under the skyline are the icing on this colour-cake.
voted as "saveme" (from Delete me! group)
Aelle (84 months ago | reply)
Great colors. The sky is enchanting.
Voted as "saveme" (from Delete me! group)
The New No. 2 (84 months ago | reply)
Resubmitted to finish it off.
drgandy (84 months ago | reply)
I like it too. The image looks a bit soft at larger size, but the image is quite striking.
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Tsjeu (84 months ago | reply)
I don't know what to do with this. You can buy pictures like this, all the way across the coast from here to south-africa, in every touristshop. I would have loved to have taken one like this myself, although I don't like to look at them. The picture is perfect, but I wouldn't save it. I'd put a stamp on it and write on the back: "It's wonderful over here, we're having a great time!" So, this safe from the Deleteme! group: is it a drawer filled with old postcards? Or is it something else? I think it should be something else, so, I guess I have to:
vote "deleteme3"
but it's the best picture I've ever deleted.
Thomas Hawk (84 months ago | reply)
It's hard to say delete me on this photo but there is something about it that just doesn't feel right to me.
1. I don't like the elongated crop (although this is just a stupid biased thing and I've got long cropped shots myself)
2. Although the contrast and saturation very well may be natural, they appear unnatural to me for some reason -- like they were bumped up just a wee bit too much.
3. I don't like the white part of the sky on the left. Again, no good technical reason why, just preference. I've suggested how I'd prefer to see it cropped.
A pretty good job overall and particularly strong building silhouette work. Still can't quite give it a save me. My first view of it I was pretty neutral on and actually skiped commenting on it but then on second thought I wanted too.
The photo is pretty strong and is close to the vault so hopefully my no vote doesn't mean that much.
voted as "deleteme" (from Delete me! group)
mmarchin (84 months ago | reply)
Yeah, nice picture, but I'm gonna have to label it as postcard type stuff that holds very little interest for me. You only need one more to get in the safe, but it ain't me.
voted as "deleteme" (from Delete me! group)
robholland (84 months ago | reply)
Agree with mmarchin. No go on the Chicago postcard.
voted deleteme from the Deleteme group.
Graham McVicker (84 months ago | reply)
I don't think that much of cityscapes even though I've taken a few of my own and they're some of my (annoyingly) more popular photos on flickr.
This one is damn good though, and I don't think it deserves deletion on the basis of being too much like a postcard. It is cliché and postcard-like but I don't think you're likely to find a better postcard of Chicago.
BTW, I think suggested crop is rubbish, keep it the way it is.
Now off to the safe with you!
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The New No. 2 (84 months ago | reply)
I removed the suggested crop because notes on photos annoy me - not just this one, but all of them.
The New No. 2 (84 months ago | reply)
Thanks for the comments everybody. Ihave tosay that I was surprised at the level of support for this one. After all it is a sunrise. I was especially surprisedand grateful for KK's vote - I think he is currently at a 1:100 ratio of saves to delete's.
As to the comments themselves I don't think thatthe crop suggestion would have worked here. If I had to present it again I would clone out the birds - theyjust look like specks here anyway. I agree with some ofthe commentary suggestiing that it looks a bit overprocessed and maybe I could dial that down, but I think that this is the way I remember that morning.
You might have noticed the day I took this was September 12, 2001. I didn't sleep much the night before and got up early to goto work and this scene was unfolding as I was driving along Lake Shore Drive. I couldn't help but think to myself that despite all the evil, horrific things that we do to ourselves (and that others inflict upon us) it really is a beautiful world it we allow it to be. I know it's sentimental schlock. The morning I took this the sky was as vibrant and colorful as I have ever seen it here and it seemed to be saying that the world keeps on turning.
Thanks again for the good, the bad, and the ugly suggestions and votes.
dooda (84 months ago | reply)
This is one of the more pleasant sunrises I've seen. It goes to show that a sunrise/set can make it if it's good enough. Your story doesn't reak of sentimentality, it sounds quite truthful. Thanks.
Bill in DC (84 months ago | reply)
Such colors from a Coolpix. Who woulda thunk it? As for the "over the top" comments -- forget it. Intense, yes. "Unrealistic" -- maybe. So what?
BigRedTroll (84 months ago | reply)
This is a fabulous image - postcard or not. It works very well and I love the letterbox crop - FAV
HOOTdog (84 months ago | reply)
wo------ Fantastic !!
neloqua (83 months ago | reply)
Breathtaking and colorful moment!
Sebastian-Lewis (83 months ago | reply)
This is nice; good shot.
btezra [deleted] (83 months ago | reply)
~what stitching software are you suing? I'd like to pick you braina bout technique here and such, I have a few images that would work stitched and such plus I'd like to start taking some cityscapes here in Pittsburgh & at PNC Park to stitch~
Little Alien is in (83 months ago | reply)
Wow, that's awesome!
Wonderful colours.
CTPPIX.com (83 months ago | reply)
Sky colors looks Awesome.TFS
MarkAndMarina (82 months ago | reply)
Looks great full size; nice to see it get saved by the DM crew, rather than their usual rabid savaging! :-)
Spizzo (82 months ago | reply)
Chicago - F-YEAH
Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton (82 months ago | reply)
Wonderfully done! Have you joined the "top 20 panoramas" group yet?
pmarella (81 months ago | reply)
Fabulous shot
WalkmanX (81 months ago | reply)
fantastic!
parastudio (79 months ago | reply)
gorgeuous colour
jqazm (72 months ago | reply)
very very nice !
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macropolo (72 months ago | reply)
oooh, nice shot!
foodfreak.de (72 months ago | reply)
awesome
Karma Killer (72 months ago | reply)
i really love thios picture, i love the blend of the colors from one to the next and the glow in it
Paul Morgan (71 months ago | reply)
fantastic picture - great colours
R E D H E A D (67 months ago | reply)
A fantastically romantic and colour rich shot. I agree with Karma Killer, it glows.
s pa c esi nb e twe en [deleted] (65 months ago | reply)
wow, amazing
Cape Cod Cyclist (65 months ago | reply)
Your fantastic, geotagged sunset would be a welcome addition to our new group: Geotagged Sunrises and Sunsets. Please join us and share your wonderful shots!
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thinkfromscratch (62 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Chicago 2016 Olympic Games (Support Group), and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
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