Camera: Pentax Spotmatic F, f3.5 28mm S-M-C Takumar lens. Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL.
The Chicago River is definitely an urban river. The canal runs through a channel a storey below the parking garages and decked roadways on either side, with no discernible natural habitat. In 1900, the direction of the river was reversed to flow from Lake Ontario to the Mississipi River, to finally beat those typhoid epidemics. It sounds like a pretty miserable thing, but at least in the downtown area, the banks have been transformed into a pleasant pathway that offers a bit of refuge from the city above, where one can sit and contemplate some beautiful architecture for a moment.
It's actually Lake Michigan that the river flows from :-)
Posted by: ad | December 10, 2009 at 04:08 PM
it's quite common in london (actually, it's the norm) for the tributaries of the thames to run through pipes in the city...we used to have one such river running through a large pipe in our cellar!
Posted by: david | December 03, 2009 at 08:13 AM
What a pretty night shot. The city looks so clean and that one building has every light in the house on:-)
Posted by: sherri | December 01, 2009 at 11:31 PM
Nice shot - I like how the walkway and the river set up the buildings.
Posted by: SD (Aspherical) | December 01, 2009 at 08:53 PM
lovely, Erinn. Nice job with the exposure.
Posted by: Otto K. | November 30, 2009 at 07:57 PM