Last week I led an awesome group on a tour of Chicago’s architecture by water taxi. We started the morning at the Ogilvie/Union Station stop and headed over to Chinatown where we photographed the skyline from the 18th Street bridge. It was an oppressively hot and humid day, well over 100 with the heat index, so the sky was very hazy. I didn’t really like how the images looked in color so I opted to convert them to black & white. Plus, we were shooting right in the middle of the day, certainly not the best for skyline views, so b&w just works better in my opinion. And, yay, for the dehaze tool in Lightroom!




We jumped back on the water taxi and headed to the Riverwalk next. Along the way we came across many kayaker’s. I liked this particular scene with the ‘L’ passing over the river and the new construction in the background.


After lunch and a bit of a cool down – thankfully!, we headed over to the Wrigley Building, Trump Tower and Marina Towers for some shots from land. The sky still wasn’t very compelling so, again, I opted for b&w.




That wrapped up the day! We’ve met online for some post-processing tips and next week we’ll meet up once more so everyone can share their images with the group. Also, Chris Smith and I will be doing this tour one more time on Sunday, August 28. Details are below and here’s a link to register.