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Image of the Week: Aon Center from Millenium Park, Chicago

Do you always carry your camera? I mean, every time you go out the front door, do you have some sort of camera rig with you? DSLR? Point-and-Shoot? Holga? 120 Folder? 35mm? Anything?

Yeah, me neither.

I know, it's pathetic. Here I am, a photographer and all, and whenever I'm out on a quick errand, I forget to grab a camera. But then again, when I pack a camera bag, I tend to pack as if I were storming a beach: camera body, 2-3 lenses, hotshoe flash, extra batteries, memory cards, polarizing filter, small tripod, notebook. Before I know it, I've thrown together nearly 10lbs of gear for that quick trip to the market.

That's why the gear often stays home on these little jaunts.

But not anymore. I'm changing my ways. I've resolved to leave the house only if I'm carrying some sort of imaging device, not counting the camera on my cellphone (the quality is so bad, I don't bother with it). Yes, that means I'll always be laden with 5 to 10lbs of DSLR gear, but I won't miss out on anything I see along the way. And if some generous soul out there wants to buy me the new Canon G9 P&S, all the better.

This week's photo wouldn't have happened had I adhered to my usual behavior. While in Chicago visiting friends and shopping around some portfolios, I took a morning off to visit the Art Institute. It's a short walk from the hotel, and I didn't see much reason for hauling my camera bag along -- the museum staff usually make me check it at the entrance anyway. Strolling across Millenium Park, I was struck by the graphic interplay of the Pritzker Pavilion with the surrounding buildings.

Have questions, comments? Let me know what you think.

Technical Data

Aon Center from Millenium Park, Chicago was captured with a Nikon D70 and a 50mm ƒ/1.8 lens. The exposure was 1/200s at ƒ/14.

Other Images of the Week

Buffalo, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Elk skeleton on the banks of the Madison River, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Winter Sun, Middlebury, Vermont Mike Kennard and the Lake Champlain Bridge, Chimney Point, Vermont Tiffany, Middlebury, Vermont Nora, Plattsburgh, New York Carrizo Badlands Sunset, Anza-Borrego State Park, California Ocotillo Shadow on Abandoned Cabin, Anza-Borrego Desert, California, silver gelatin print South Fork Cascade Creek and 'The Wall', Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming Utah Juniper, Canyonlands National Park, Utah, Palladium Print Nicole Grainger riding Oxford, Middlebury, Vermont (Palladium Print)
December Snow I, Middlebury, Vermont Bedroom, Homer Noble Farm, Ripton, Vermont Deer Skull, Citronelle, Alabama, Palladium Print Boulders in swiftly moving stream, Weybridge, Vermont Sunset and Moonrise at Table Mountain, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming Moonrise and Abandoned Trailers, Anza-Borrego Desert, California UVM Mallory, Morgan Horse Farm, Weybridge, Vermont, Palladium Print Abandoned Cabin, Anza-Borrego Desert, California Melissa and Parker, Columbia, South Carolina Old Stone Row in Winter, Middlebury, Vermont Worth Mountain Ski Lift in a Snowstorm, Middlebury College Snow Bowl, Green Mountains, Vermont
Farmer and Pilot Ed Peet, Cornwall, Vermont Birches, Middlebury, Vermont Mountain Palm Springs, Anza-Borrego Desert, California Bullseye, Citronelle, Alabama Lunging UVM Orlando, Morgan Horse Farm, Weybridge, Vermont Barns IV, Middlebury, Vermont Fallen Tree in the Creek, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming Blacksmith Lee Beckwith, Weybridge, Vermont Snow Angel, Middlebury, Vermont Slack Line, Middlebury, Vermont Coffee Splash
Barns III, Middlebury, Vermont Beulah in the Carrizo Badlands, Anza-Borrego Desert, California Chapel of the Transfiguration, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming Cross-Country Runner Alexandra Krieg, Middlebury, Vermont Horse Bath, Morgan Horse Farm, Weybridge, Vermont Whitney, Citronelle, Alabama The North Window from Turret Arch, Arches National Park, Utah Jeff, Middlebury College, Vermont Hostas II, Middlebury, Vermont Hikers in Coyote Gulch I, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Utah Ocotillo Shadow, Abandoned Cabin, Anza-Borrego State Park, California
Moonlit Palms, Anza-Borrego State Park, California Park Avenue, Arches National Park, Utah Ashton and Whitney, Citronelle, Alabama Steven Halladay Road III Fall colors and ivy-covered wall, Middlebury College, Vermont Maple Tree, Middlebury, Vermont Jesse Hamner at Grand Prismatic Spring, Yellowstone NP Aon Center from Millenium Park, Chicago Mountain Biking I Boulders II, Canyonlands National Park, Utah
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Aon Center from Millenium Park, Chicago. Click on image to view larger.
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