#project365 year1 [day 016] going overground

The Chicago Loop is the designation for the towns central business district, it's name comes from the elevated railway loop that was built there to facilitate railway traffic bringing workers and goods to the central part of the city. Here it seems I just missed my train...

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There goes the "L"

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Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
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Photoshop: Clean up and sharpening.
NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction.

#project365 year1 [day 015] going underground

Thankfully not all trains run overground in Chicago, and there are some fine underground stations like the Lake station pictured here. 

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Chicago's underground

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Fujifilm X-T1 Fujifilm 
XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR 
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Lightroom : Initial tone and final crop. 
Photoshop: Clean up and sharpening. 
NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction.

#project365 [day 97] Ashland station by night

The Chicago L is the rapid transit system serving the city and some of its surrounding suburbs in the U.S. state of Illinois, with L being short for elevated. It is the fourth largest rapid transit system in the United States in terms of total route length (at 165.4 km), and the third busiest rail mass transit system in the United States after the New York City Subway and Washington Metro. Chicago's "L" provides 24-hour service on some portions of its network, which came in very handy when returning from the United Center after seeing the home team beat the New York Knicks. Like most metro stations in the U.S. it has utilitarian style and suffer from varying degrees of decay, which seems a bit alien to me, but I'm sure it makes sense when dealing with a massive network and a shortage of funds. Thankfully there are a few exceptions which I will cover soon.

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Fujifilm X-PRO1
Samyang 8mm f2.8 Fisheye 
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Lightroom : Initial tone and final crop. 
Photoshop: Clean up and sharpening. 
NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction.

#project365 [day 83] On the move, Grand Central Terminal

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Another one from the beautiful Grand Central Terminal in New York City. Where the main concourse is so finely detailed, even the passage to the tracks is a work of art. After you pass through this doorway though, and the industrial minimalism is king, This was another waiting game. Find a passage that had few distractions to create a nice frame, and wait until somebody gets to the position where it ties it all together.

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Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
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Lightroom : Initial tone and final crop.
Photoshop: Perspective correction, clean up and sharpening.
NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction.

#project365 [day 36] "Ed Rogowsky" New York Water Taxi

Painted like a yellow cab, even down to the black and white checkered pattern, the New York Water Taxi is one of the most convenient ways to have a look around Manhattan, Brooklyn and go shopping at IKEA. That is right, you can use this service to go get your favourite flat-pack Swedish furniture at their Brooklyn store, and you can do it in a hurry using the IKEA Express.

I would recommend just using as a sightseer day transportation with an All-Day access pass, going from Midtown Manhattan, down to Brooklyn, past the Statue of Liberty, and back to Wall Street in Downtown. On the background you can see the Brooklyn Bridge, and some of the construction work that is revamping the river front on the Brooklyn Bridge Park. 

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Fujifilm X-T1
Fujifilm XF18-135mmF3.5-5.6R LM OIS WR
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Lightroom : Initial toning and final crop
Photoshop: Sharpening and clean up
NikCollection Color Efex Pro 4: Toning and Detail extraction