I got on Digg today – that was a nice surprise to get over 150,000 views on a single photograph within just a few hours. Thank you everyone who stopped by or sent along emails! Here is the picture that was “Dugg”:

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One of my good photography friends, Valerio, highly recommended that I get this new lens – the Sigma 10-20mm. We spent the weekend together in Napoli and took a bunch of pictures together…we put that set here on Flickr. Here is one of the first shots I have taken with the new lens from Chicago last night; I think this lens is amazing. I look forward to doing some landscapes with it as well. The second picture is one of my favorites with that lens from Valerio… who is one of the most popular photographers on Flickr… here are some of his top shots.

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Here is a photo experiment… I think it turned out well, albeit unconventional.

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Here is the newly famous mirrored “Bean” melting over Chicago.

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Filed under the categories: Chicago, Illinois, Musings, Travel

It’s probably way too cold now to hang out in Chicago like this, but here was an HDR shot taken about 10 PM at the new concert hall at the park.

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These things are creepy-cool.

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This was taken with nine exposures on a late summer evening in Chicago. The light made the lake have sort of a Caribbean blue color. It was one of my few trips there where I did not absolutely freeze to death or get shredded by ice crystals in monsoon-strength winds.

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I seem to have bad luck with rain in Chicago, and it makes taking pictures kind of difficult. Here is one I grabbed one morning after I got out of the subway.

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I’ve been in Chicago for the past few days. After sweating to death in the jungles of Malaysia, it’s nice to be somewhere it’s kinda cold.

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Here is the concert hall at the new park in Chicago. They shine all kinds of different lights on it at night to make it look all Blade-Runner.

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As if these new video walls in Chicago are not cool enough, they also spit out streams of water on people underneath.

Filed under the categories: Chicago, Illinois, Musings, Travel