I was lucky enough to be in a helicopter over Chicago at sunset. A big thanks to Fiona and our pilots Bill and Jeff. They took the door off the helicopter for me, which sounds like a good idea until you are experiencing 100 MPH of chopper backwash while hanging out trying to get this kind of shot!
It was a fun day. We stayed up for a few hours and circled around the city several times. I got hundreds of amazing shots. I haven't had time to process any of them except for this one... but I wanted to go ahead and get it up since I know the Twitter and Facebook crowd has been waiting on it since I mentioned it on there. Also my mom was very worried about the whole door-off-the-helicopter thing.
Right in the center of the shot on the bottom is the famous Navy Pier. We timed this shot to get at the right height the second the sun dipped below the horizon to cast a rainbow of hues into the sky.
(and there are pics of me hanging out of the helicopter on my Facebook page if you want to come see!) :)
from the blog at www.stuckincustoms.com
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setiadi 19 months ago | reply
Awesome!!
Amol Makode 14 months ago | reply
Oh my god! This is brilliant!!!!
May Harrington Photography 2011 11 months ago | reply
OUTSTANDING Shot!!! Mahalo nui loa for putting up such GREAT work for us to savor :)
Amerikai Nagykövetség 8 months ago | reply
Dear Trey Ratcliff,
We truly liked your photo and shared it in our Facebook album representing the 50 states of the U.S.! You can check it out at www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150948993743979.44402....
Thank you very much for providing it!
Kind regards,
U.S. Embassy Budapest