Photographing the Beach
From Don Peters/ DPA instructor in Chicago
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Look down! On a 52nd floor balcony, overlooking Chicago’s Gold Coast, I had the world before me. The grandeur of Lake Michigan was enhanced with all sorts of watercraft and the surrounding, majestic skyscrapers of Chicago. That afternoon, even the Navy Blue Angels were flying by, screaming for photographic attention. However, something compelled me to simply point my camera straight down to the tawny beach below, dotted with sunbathers and colorful umbrellas. The random pattern of humanity at play “spoke to me,” and I captured this shot of summer in the city. To me, besides rendering an interesting pattern, the shot creates the question, the wonder as to what activities, conversations, hopes and dreams are going on within the multitudes milling about below. (Nikon D300 with 28-300mm Nikkor lens at 200mm, ISO 200, 1/500 at f/11)