CHICAGO: some pics on late October 07 Part I

Sandy · #1 Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 12:02 PM**

Hi everybody, I've been reading this forum for 1 year and today I've decided to post some of my pictures from my last trip in the US. I love your country and Chicago is really a great city, I had a wonderfull sunny weather (5 days on my 6 days' trip) so I hope my photos are good enough to be posted here... waiting for your comments

1) Morning view from my hotel

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6) Too bad no water!

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9) Star Wars' fans

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23) View from the Sears Tower

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End of Part I of II, I hope you like them....

OhioGuy · #2 Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 2:36 PM**

God save us from the Star Wars freaks, haha.

Nice pics. Glad you had beautiful blue skies to enjoy while you were here. It's too bad Buckingham Fountain wasn't operating. October seems too early to be shut off for the winter months.

Sandy · #3 Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 3:05 PM**

Yeah, I'm not lucky with this fountain, I went twice in Chicago, first time on May 2002, there was water but the sky was grey and too early for digital camera so my pics were... disappointing.
Thanks for your comments.

TransitEngr · #4 Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 6:20 PM**

EXCELLENT PHOTOS!

MobyLL · #5 Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 6:32 PM**

^ yes.

Sandy -- these are beautiful

Only problem is that at least half of them are not loading.

Jeeper · #6 Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 6:35 PM**

Amazing photos. You managed to capture perspectives of Chicago I've never seen on this forum before, and that's quite an accomplishment. Wonderful stuff!

Sandy · #7 Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 7:09 PM**

Thanks all of you for these nice comments...
Has everybody a problem with the loading?
maybe it's where I uploaded if yes i will change, where do you upload? Imageshack is very long to load in France, everyone in the world seems to use it, each forum I visited Imageshack is used, so If you have other name...

degausser · #8 Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 7:25 PM**

Beautiful photos. I love Chicago.

You could try photobucket, but I don't think it is much better.
http://photobucket.com/

cbotnyse · #9 Posted **Jan 6, 2008, 7:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sandy

Thanks all of you for these nice comments...
Has everybody a problem with the loading?
maybe it's where I uploaded if yes i will change, where do you upload? Imageshack is very long to load in France, everyone in the world seems to use it, each forum I visited Imageshack is used, so If you have other name...

They do take very long to load. I use photobucket.com

excellent photos! I really enjoyed that.

denveraztec · #10 Posted **Jan 7, 2008, 4:27 PM**

Fantastic shots Sandy! They do take forever to download because they are high with the mega pixels you uploaded. Thus, causing some systems to time out and folks only getting half of the photos. Lower the resolution and they will load quicker, they will be smaller but they will all show on SSP. I use Photo Bucket and it is easy to follow their instructions. Welcome and look forward to more of your work!

Sandy · #11 Posted **Jan 12, 2008, 5:11 PM**

Thanks Denveraztec and cbotnyse, I've followed your advice I'm now using Photo bucket and I've edited my posts (http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=143825) to change the resolution.
I hope this time they won't take too long to load.

HomeInMyShoes · #12 Posted **Jan 13, 2008, 12:11 AM**

Loaded great for me. Nice photos.

Welcome to the forum.

Jularc · #13 Posted **Jan 13, 2008, 1:06 AM**

Thanks for the pics Sandy, these are so great.

LaSalle.St.Station · #14 Posted **Jan 13, 2008, 7:19 AM**

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Originally Posted by Jularc

Thanks for the pics Sandy, these are so great.

Your hotel shot was in a word................ never seen before. and amazing. SLICE

Jularc · #15 Posted **Jan 13, 2008, 9:30 PM**

Hmm, about that quote, are you talking to me?

aaron38 · #16 Posted **Jan 13, 2008, 9:47 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sandy

9) Star Wars' fans

You ever have that feeling that things aren't quite right, but you can't figure out what?
I passed this photo and my brain started screaming "Something's wrong, something's wrong!", until I went back to double check.

Sandy · #17 Posted **Jan 14, 2008, 8:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by aaron38

You ever have that feeling that things aren't quite right, but you can't figure out what?
I passed this photo and my brain started screaming "Something's wrong, something's wrong!", until I went back to double check.

Little details that make me love the US!!

wrab · #18 Posted **Jan 15, 2008, 4:40 AM**

Great pics. And you had a good view from your hotel-room window.

johnnygosox · #19 Posted **Jan 15, 2008, 11:18 PM**

Hi Sandy,

I may have met you on your journey to and through Chicago. I'm a fireman at a house in the loop and sometime in October we had a few people from France stop by. Do you recall being at a firehouse on South Wells street? I'm only writing this because your fire engine picture jogged my memory of a visit by some very nice individuals from France.

M II A II R II K · #20 Posted **Jan 16, 2008, 2:08 AM**

Great photography!