Sunset After the Storm
On the same evening as the previous post, the Double Rainbows, I was headed back to the highway on a small dirt road. The rainbows had faded, as the sun had gone behind another line of clouds right at the horizon before it sunk below the horizon. But sometimes, the moments after the sunset are [...]
Broken Clouds
The sun peeks in and out of some high broken clouds over the Illinois prairie as a BNSF coal load rolls towards Chicago and eventually on to Michigan for its date with the burners of a Detroit Edison power plant. I used to pass up on days like this, in favor of only completely sunny [...]
Sunset Proviso
It’s that time of year again, the time when the sun begins to swing farther south in the sky, putting the sunset back into alignment with a lot of our major east-west transportation arteries, such as the Union Pacific mainline, the Eisenhower Expressway (watch out for those sun glare delays!), etc…. I noticed the other [...]
The Everyday Commute
As lake effect snow clouds hang low over Lake Michigan, dumping five inches of snow not more than five miles away in Northwest Indiana, the sun shines on the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago. An inbound Metra Rock Island train scoots into LaSalle St. Station, reflecting the low sun off it’s fluted stainless steel. As [...]
Moonrise/Sunset
It’s brutally cold outside today here in Chicago, just brutal, -50 wind chills this morning. Therefore, since I can’t go out shooting at the moment, I figured I’d mess around with the old Photoshop for a minute or two. In this composite we have two photos that were taken a few minutes apart from each [...]
