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Chicago
2008-08-16
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- CC BY-SA 4.0, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
About this work
Chicago skyline as seen from adler planetarium. The image stretches from Shedd Aquarium on the very left all the way to Navy Pier on the very right. The image is composed from 22 portrait shots taken with Sigma 150mm lens on a Canon EOS 5D. For assembly hugin/panotools were used, most of the keypoints were added manually. The extreme aspect ratio made a large amount of vertical guides necessary to ensure that the buildings do not tilt. The image was taken on August 16th, the day of the unofficial ceremony marking the finish of concret pouring at the Trump Tower (the american Flag and a Bucket of concrete can be seen hanging on a crane atop the building.
