Posts tagged “Chicago

County Views.161

Cook County, Illinois, as captured by the lens of occasional contributor Sam 🙂

From the Air.61

Coming back to NL from Chicago in May, we took off into a bit of a rain storm with low clouds, so I grabbed some views of the sprawling city before it vanished beneath the clouds as we climbed. Below, taken very shortly after the one above, you can get a bit more sense of the Lake Michigan shoreline off to the east as the plane banks to head northeast and we’re looking pretty much due east.

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Urban Canals.175

Seems Sam’s been out on the Chicago River this summer 🙂

From The Air: Boston to Chicago

Regular readers and friends will have figured out that, in this smartphone-in-your-pocket era, I’m always on the lookout for views lovely, strange, new, interesting or otherwise engaging to photograph. Unlike most airplane travelers, I stare endlessly out the window when I’m fortunate enough to have a window seat. Below are shots, mostly in chronological sequence, as my plane from Boston to Chicago flew along the northern edge of the Finger Lakes in NY State, over Buffalo (pictured also in the out-of-sequence large photo at the top of this post), then over the southernmost part of Ontario in Canada, between Hamilton & Detroit, then across the US state of Michigan, the Great Lake named Lake Michigan…and north of a fog-and-rain-bound city of Chicago, into O’Hare airport. For readers who’ve not explored the Great Lakes regions of the US and Canada, or the Finger Lakes region of New York State – do. There’s a lot to see and do. 🙂