Chicago

Chicago – In remembrance of Don Simmons

Black And White Photography, Don, Photography

“My kind of town, Chicago is…
The Wrigley Building, Chicago Is…”
— Jimmy Van Heusen and Sammy Cahn

There are iconic buildings throughout the world that immediately identify a place — Sydney Opera House in Australia, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, Taj Mahal in India — and in Chicago it is the Wrigley Building.

With all the skyscrapers and sleek buildings that have popped up in Chicago and other cities over the past forty years or so, the Wrigley Building remains an icon. How iconic? Well, when Lego Architecture did a skyline of Chicago, the 100 year-old Wrigley Building was one of buildings featured. Can you get a stronger imprimatur than Lego? ‘Nuff said.

Leaning into Negative Space

Black And White Photography, David Jensen, Photography

An overcast sky and open space creates a simple background for the buoy in the harbor.

Nikon FM, Kodak Tri-X 400 film, developed with Cinestill DF96 and imported into Lightroom via Fujifilm GFX 100s using a Venus Optics Loawa 100mm 2X macro lens.

More of my photography can be found on my Website and Blog.

City in Glass

Black And White Photography, David Jensen, Photography

It’s looking like November is going to be about images captured at Navy Pier in Chicago. I guess that shows just how much potential material was available while visiting there.

Nikon FM, Kodak Tri-X 400 film, developed with Cinestill DF96 and imported into Lightroom via Fujifilm GFX 100s using a Venus Optics Loawa 100mm 2X macro lens.

More of my photography can be found on my Website and Blog.

Lines, Curves and Shapes

Black And White Photography, David Jensen, Photography

Another image taken on Navy Pier in Chicago using my Nikon FM film camera.

Nikon FM, Kodak Tri-X 400 film, developed with Cinestill DF96 and imported into Lightroom via Fujifilm GFX 100s using a Venus Optics Loawa 100mm 2X macro lens.

More of my photography can be found on my Website and Blog.

 

The Yard

Black And White Photography, David Jensen, Photography

If you like reflections and are in Chicago, take a trip to Navy Pier. There is a building that has one long side with a reflection of the city. The view changes as you move up and down the wall.

Nikon FM, Kodak Tri-X 400 film, developed with Cinestill DF96 and imported into Lightroom via Fujifilm GFX 100s using a Venus Optics Loawa 100mm 2X macro lens.

More of my photography can be found on my Website and Blog.

 

Cloud Gate

Black And White Photography, David Jensen, Photography

If you’ve been to Chicago, you’ve probably visited Millennium Park and seen the “Bean,” also known as the Cloud Gate. It’s one of those sculptures that I can walk around and find unique compositions from every angle.

More of my photography can be found on my website and my blog.

Just Lean A Little To The Left

Black And White Photography, David Jensen, Photography

Sometimes you have to shift your perspective to have it all make sense. Chicago skyline reflected in the Millennium Gate.

More of my photography can be found on my blog and my website.

Chicago

Black And White Photography, Don, Photography

 

“Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat…
…City of the Big Shoulders:”
– Carl Sandburg

 

Carl Sandburg’s poem had wonderful imagery of this rough-and-tumble, tough, midwestern city “getting it done” for America. But that was a Chicago of a different time, the poem written over 100 years ago. Today’s Chicago is more a city of buildings that are taller and sleeker, but with shoulders that are no longer as broad.