[Leica] Chicago by GF1

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

Thanks for posting, Howard. They are some of the most interesting 
photos I've seen of the sculpture and I think describe it quite well. 
The soft light helps.



>Offered for your consideration is a small portfolio of GF1 shots 
>from Chicago this last weekend. We go to the city every year or two, 
>but this is the first time to my recollection that we had 
>low-hanging clouds, circa 100-150m above street level.
>
>The most wondrous thing we visited was the Cloud Gate in Millennium 
>Park. There is no sculpture like this anywhere else in the world, 
>and no object that I've ever seen that plays with the eye and lines 
>of sight in such complex and nonintuitive ways: multiple recursive 
>reflections that include, maddeningly, multiple reflections of a 
>single surface within itself-without an obvious conjugate mirror to 
>produce the recursive reflections, since its own negative curvature 
>almost invisibly serves this function! It's an utterly fascinating 
>object and experience-a worthy destination in itself for anyone 
>interested in light, optics, mathematics, puzzles, images, topology, 
>art, eastern mysticism, or Old High Church Slavonic epic poetry. Or 
>anyone with a sense of wonder and whimsy and curiosity, like the 
>kids-of-all-ages pictured here. If you visit Chicago, don't miss it. 
>Really.
>
>It's also fascinating to read about, for example on Wikipedia:
>
>                       http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_gate
>
>All photos with the 20/1.7 muffin lens (well, I think it's too thick 
>to be called a pancake!).
>
>Link to the album on the Gallery:
>
> 
>       http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/hlritter/Gallery+Scans_001/
>
>C&C solicited.
>
>-howard
>
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