[Leica] Chicago by GF1

[hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)]

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