| The famous Wrigley Building is lit up all night by a massive bank of floodlights that sit along the Chicago River, opposite the building. This huge collection of lights stretching more than thirty feet long and five feet high creates a lot of ambient light at this famous intersection. Here Michigan Avenue crosses the Chicago River and the "Miracle Mile" begins. The night of the snowstorm, when I shot all of these images, the snow created a haze that softened the lights. When I saw the bare trees in stark contrast to this light, I liked the image. The lights that remain on in the building behind allude to the fact that it was only about 6pm when I took this shot, and many people were still working. As I mentioned in the introduction to this gallery, it is hard to get shots of snow on the ground in Chicago - at least snow that is even and not in piles. As the snow was falling, there was a sidewalk sweeper working this plaza (I am standing right in front of the Tribune Tower) so that you can see that there is very little snow on the ground despite the fact that it has snowed two or three inches already. |
