mallen1330 Loc: Chicago western suburbs

Segway riders on the way back to the Grant Park North garage in Chicago. They moved a couple feet between the three bracketed exposures. Photomatix removed the rider's ghosts, but if you download, you'll notice that I neglected to mark the bicycle rider on the overpass for ghost removal.

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rjaywallace Loc: Wisconsin

Very nice picture, Michael. A great look at Chicago's burgening skyline.
Also, after visiting your website, I was quite impressed with your pictures of that beautiful home in Downer's Grove. Lived in DG myself on south Main ~'78-83.

mallen1330 Loc: Chicago western suburbs

Thanks! However that home, listed for $1,395,000, has not sold and they've cancelled the listing -- oh well!

Billyspad Loc: The Philippines

Nice image and good HDR technique generally but the sky has the dreaded Photomatix unatural blue blotchiness. Can I suggest brushing through the sky from an original shot or using the bracketed shots without tone mapping but just merge them to get a good sky. As a long time user of Photomatix I do really think it screws skies more often than not.
Also here not sure what HDR brought to the table. A recent model DSLR would have the dynamic range to capture the light and shaded areas here. A couple of Nik filters will give you the HDR look if that's what you want. No chance of halos noise being introduced or Photomatix spoiling the sky.
Understand HDR for your real estate shots but not outside in good light.