Living in Colorado, we spend a fair amount of our time looking up, watching for birds, keeping an eye out for thunderstorms, and occasionally looking out for tornadoes. So, it isn’t unusual for us to also take pictures looking up towards the magnificently blue skies. For this week’s photo challenge, look up, we chose some pictures of Aspen trees in the mountains from last September. The golden leaves truly stand-out against the blue background.
Keeping with the theme of Chicago, we decided to use this photo from our trip this week for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Bridges. The streets of downtown Chicago, what is commonly called “The Loop” because it is the area inside of the elevated subway train tracks (The “L”). There are also several fun bridges that cross the Chicago River as well as a river walk. We took this picture as we crossed one of the bridges and thought that it captured the city’s architecture perfectly.
Just for the fun of it, we’ve also included this nighttime photo of a bridge in Paris that we really like.
After a very long drive home, we’re finally back from Chicago. It was, as always, an interesting trip with lots of sights and activities. We’ll talk more about our trip later, but for last week’s photo challenge, opposites, we figured that we would share a photo from our trip. As with any modern city with a historic past, there are going to be buildings set in juxtaposition with one another. There are many such examples in Chicago, but this picture that we took of the Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary is wonderful example of that contrast between old world architecture and modern skyscrapers.
