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jimcyl and I spent a few hours after work wandering around the northwest portion of the loop, generally having a great time and pointing our cameras at anything that looked interesting. I shot a couple hundred pictures. I even have a handful, maybe five or ten, that I really like. They're not perfect, but I finally feel, as I page through my images, that I'm looking at more than just a collection of snapshots.

Anyway, here's a picture of a section of el track near the Blommer chocolate company. I'd never heard of them before, and unfortunately the public store portion was closed so I couldn't sample them either. But it smelled heavenly.



It was hard to avoid blowing out highlights in the sky without losing the details under the overpass. I really need to get Photoshop set up so I can play with more in depth processing on these.

(And now that I look at it this morning, I think it might have been better for the siding of the overpass to terminate right in the middle of the upper-right corner, rather than let one edge go into the corner.)

It's nice spending the night down here in Chicago. I get to sleep an extra two hours, 'till seven o' clock.