"blocks of colour, balance, interplay"

oh, wow. this post took forever to prepare, but i really wanted to do it, because today over at shutter sisters, kate posted about chicago... along with some wonderful photos that she took, her post said, "i couldn't get enough of line and shape. containers of electricity all standing poised, perhaps slightly forward, into the wind."

she then said "today, think like picasso. show me photographs that crackle with line and shape—and not just explicitly. blur your eyes from simple subjects and see blocks of colour, balance, interplay. and share!" so i'm doing just that--sharing them here!

although i posted once already today {below}, i decided to do another post--a long one. and with pictures of chicago again, but i tried to be less wordy than i was in my last chicago post. {wink}. although this time there will be a lot more photos. {sorry}

i'm happy to finally be posting my favorite shots from my day long photowalk/photoshoot trip to the city with some high school friends a few weekends ago. i have not had a chance to go through them until now. but this worked out good, because so many of my shots go with this s.s. post, as i really felt like many of my pictures from the day were more about lines and shapes than they were about the actual objects or subject of chicago.

i love to take pictures that are obscure and feature more shapes and lines then they do what it is that is creating or holding those shapes and lines. chicago is a perfect city to go to for such—especially if you know of some really great out of the ordinary places to go take pictures. we tried to hit the usual spots as well as the unusual.

the best places we went that were unusual were a couple of train yards in run down areas. i took the most pictures there, and will have to save those for a whole post of their own. {if you've been reading for a while, you know how much i like trains.}

anyway, here are the rest of the pictures. {the above shot was my favorite of the day.}

{i had posted this one last week, but here are more.}

{this red-winged blackbird photo reminds me of a similar milwaukee shot i took.}

{buckingham fountain above and below}

{some really interesting sculptures that i thought were so photographable}

{there were some really interesting industrial areas.}

{an old, brick warehouse building}

{i love how this greenery was growing out of the glass, brick and steel structure.}

{the stock exchange arch}

{miscellaneous photos around chicago}

{millennium park}

{and finally, shots from under the el tracks.}

i hope you enjoyed a little walk through a big city. while doing this post, i realized that it has been a while since i posted some florida series pictures, and i still have so many more to go from that trip! {later this week, i hope.} i'll also have to do my next synophotography post tomorrow. my sister really gave me a challenging word for this weeks assignment, so i better get right on that. it will probably have to be tomorrow night.