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Mar 5, 2021 05:51:18   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
While it definitely isn’t beach weather yet, the Chicago Park District has announced the city’s lakefront, playgrounds and indoor pools will reopen after they closed nearly a year ago during initial COVID-19 shutdowns in the Spring 2020.

Frozen Chicago by Paul Sager, on Flickr


This set of images captured in RAW using an EOS 5DIII and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM. The files were processed in Adobe Lightroom 6.

Frozen Lake Michigan


At the time of these images on Saturday Feb 20, 2021, Chicago had experienced 12 straight days with more than a foot of snow on the ground. On Monday we completed a two-week period that is the city’s longest run with more than a foot of snow since the winter of 1978-1979. The winter average in Chicago a 5-inch depth of snow.

Frozen Chicago


The Chicago Fire Department uses an icebreaker to plow through Chicago River keeping the river open during temps at 0F or below.

Marina Towers


The Christopher Wheatley is 95-feet long and reinforced with steel and concrete, making it heavy enough to turn up to a foot and a half of ice into a jigsaw puzzle. The CFD slices the ice from Lake Michigan to Wolf Point where the river splits north and south.

Frozen Chicago River


These images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.

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Mar 5, 2021 06:42:54   #
diclam Loc: Red Lake Falls, MN
 
Thank you for the tour of your great city, Paul!!

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Mar 5, 2021 07:24:38   #
joehel2 Loc: Cherry Hill, NJ
 
Very nicely done, Paul. I’ve been enjoying your frozen series.

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Mar 5, 2021 07:35:26   #
jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana
 
Nice snow shots of the city.

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Mar 5, 2021 07:48:04   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Thank you diclam, Joe, John! Our overnight temps will stay above freezing starting this weekend. I think I've exhausted the 'freeze' pictures for this season. Glad you enjoyed.

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Mar 5, 2021 08:05:55   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Nicer set, but it's too cold! : )

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Mar 5, 2021 08:26:35   #
Arca
 
CHG_CANON,

Dear Paul,

I always enjoy your photos and your commentaries, pithy or otherwise. I resided in the Windy City from 1950 to 1980. Then, at 30 I moved to Oregon and in 1984 to Phoenix. I never tire of seeing the beautiful architecture of Chicago, but then I am reminded of why I moved away from the wonderful city--I could not escape the weather! When I visit my home town and people ask me how can I stand the hot summers in Phoenix, I tell them "For ME, it is much easier to withstand 115 degrees in Phoenix summers than when I had to endure -15 degrees in Chicago winters." As you may be aware, the perspiration virtually disappears in the 4% humidity of Phoenix, so you feel dry all summer (except for a few days during the Monsoon). It is also easier to move around and driving is a breeze in Phoenix summers, and not always wonderful in Chicago winters. I remember the ruts, sliding, snowplows, salt, rusty cars, two cars in opposite directions on side streets and having to move over into unplowed and unshoveled pavement, risking getting stuck, etc. Ah yes, I remember that well.

I am not bad-mouthing Chicago, I love my hometown, the wonderful Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Italian Village Restaurant on Monroe, the 95th at the Hancock, wonderful views of Lake Michigan from the Drake Hotel (which is in your first photograph), Michigan Avenue shopping, radio station WFMT 98.7; Soldier Field, Field Museum, Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium, Brookfield Zoo, Museum of Science and Industry, Wrigley (Ernie Banks) Field, White Sox (Comiskey) Park, the old Chicago Stadium which Bobby Hull and Michael Jordan built. I love it all and miss it very, very much. I love the city. But, I hated the weather. Your pictures are beautiful reminders of that wonderful city with what I consider to be unfortunately long winter weather.

I will save your current photographs to look at during some of our hotter days this coming summer. It will likely have a 'cooling' effect.

Thank you for sharing your works.

Arca

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Mar 5, 2021 09:42:47   #
Ourspolair
 
Great photography and rendering as always. Thanks for sharing.

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Mar 5, 2021 10:15:49   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Arca wrote:
CHG_CANON,

Dear Paul,

I always enjoy your photos and your commentaries, pithy or otherwise. I resided in the Windy City from 1950 to 1980. Then, at 30 I moved to Oregon and in 1984 to Phoenix. I never tire of seeing the beautiful architecture of Chicago, but then I am reminded of why I moved away from the wonderful city--I could not escape the weather! When I visit my home town and people ask me how can I stand the hot summers in Phoenix, I tell them "For ME, it is much easier to withstand 115 degrees in Phoenix summers than when I had to endure -15 degrees in Chicago winters." As you may be aware, the perspiration virtually disappears in the 4% humidity of Phoenix, so you feel dry all summer (except for a few days during the Monsoon). It is also easier to move around and driving is a breeze in Phoenix summers, and not always wonderful in Chicago winters. I remember the ruts, sliding, snowplows, salt, rusty cars, two cars in opposite directions on side streets and having to move over into unplowed and unshoveled pavement, risking getting stuck, etc. Ah yes, I remember that well.

I am not bad-mouthing Chicago, I love my hometown, the wonderful Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Italian Village Restaurant on Monroe, the 95th at the Hancock, wonderful views of Lake Michigan from the Drake Hotel (which is in your first photograph), Michigan Avenue shopping, radio station WFMT 98.7; Soldier Field, Field Museum, Adler Planetarium, Shedd Aquarium, Brookfield Zoo, Museum of Science and Industry, Wrigley (Ernie Banks) Field, White Sox (Comiskey) Park, the old Chicago Stadium which Bobby Hull and Michael Jordan built. I love it all and miss it very, very much. I love the city. But, I hated the weather. Your pictures are beautiful reminders of that wonderful city with what I consider to be unfortunately long winter weather.

I will save your current photographs to look at during some of our hotter days this coming summer. It will likely have a 'cooling' effect.

Thank you for sharing your works.

Arca
CHG_CANON, br br Dear Paul, br br I always enjoy... (show quote)


Thank you Arca! Glad to bring back the memories. I lived in N Phoenix back in the mid 90s. I remember shopping for a x-mas tree in shorts and sitting with my wife on the patio reading about a 20-inch storm back in Chicago. But then, work brought us back to the midwest.

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Mar 5, 2021 10:15:54   #
CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City
 
Thank you Jerry, Arca, Ourspolair! I've been out along Lake Michigan on these frozen mornings for years. The walk along the river was a new area and I have my fellow Chicago photographers to thank for that heads up.

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Mar 5, 2021 10:29:42   #
joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA
 
CHG_CANON wrote:
While it definitely isn’t beach weather yet, the Chicago Park District has announced the city’s lakefront, playgrounds and indoor pools will reopen after they closed nearly a year ago during initial COVID-19 shutdowns in the Spring 2020.

Frozen Chicago by Paul Sager, on Flickr


This set of images captured in RAW using an EOS 5DIII and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM. The files were processed in Adobe Lightroom 6.

Frozen Lake Michigan


At the time of these images on Saturday Feb 20, 2021, Chicago had experienced 12 straight days with more than a foot of snow on the ground. On Monday we completed a two-week period that is the city’s longest run with more than a foot of snow since the winter of 1978-1979. The winter average in Chicago a 5-inch depth of snow.

Frozen Chicago


The Chicago Fire Department uses an icebreaker to plow through Chicago River keeping the river open during temps at 0F or below.

Marina Towers


The Christopher Wheatley is 95-feet long and reinforced with steel and concrete, making it heavy enough to turn up to a foot and a half of ice into a jigsaw puzzle. The CFD slices the ice from Lake Michigan to Wolf Point where the river splits north and south.

Frozen Chicago River


These images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.
While it definitely isn’t beach weather yet, the C... (show quote)


Awesome, icy shots that make me glad we are where we are, weatherwise...

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Mar 5, 2021 10:51:47   #
Craigdca Loc: California
 
Great photos out in the freeze.

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Mar 5, 2021 14:00:10   #
Cwilson341 Loc: Central Florida
 
I don’t think spring has come to Chicago just yet! I really enjoyed these. The ice puzzle is neat and just the idea that they need an icebreaker to keep the river open is something else.

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Mar 5, 2021 15:02:37   #
UTMike Loc: South Jordan, UT
 
Another wonderful winter set, Paul, thanks for sharing. I like the snow scenes on your Flckr posts.

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Mar 5, 2021 18:53:14   #
merrytexan Loc: georgia
 
CHG_CANON wrote:
While it definitely isn’t beach weather yet, the Chicago Park District has announced the city’s lakefront, playgrounds and indoor pools will reopen after they closed nearly a year ago during initial COVID-19 shutdowns in the Spring 2020.

Frozen Chicago by Paul Sager, on Flickr


This set of images captured in RAW using an EOS 5DIII and EF 24-105mm f/4L IS II USM. The files were processed in Adobe Lightroom 6.

Frozen Lake Michigan


At the time of these images on Saturday Feb 20, 2021, Chicago had experienced 12 straight days with more than a foot of snow on the ground. On Monday we completed a two-week period that is the city’s longest run with more than a foot of snow since the winter of 1978-1979. The winter average in Chicago a 5-inch depth of snow.

Frozen Chicago


The Chicago Fire Department uses an icebreaker to plow through Chicago River keeping the river open during temps at 0F or below.

Marina Towers


The Christopher Wheatley is 95-feet long and reinforced with steel and concrete, making it heavy enough to turn up to a foot and a half of ice into a jigsaw puzzle. The CFD slices the ice from Lake Michigan to Wolf Point where the river splits north and south.

Frozen Chicago River


These images are sized to fill your wide-screen display. Try using <F11> to maximize your browser window for the full effect. If the images overshoot your display, such as a laptop, just click on the image or the URL link and they'll resize to your screen from the host Flickr site. You can click a bit further into the image details on the Flickr page, if desired. EXIF data is available from the host Flickr pages as well. On the Flickr site, use your <L>key for Large and the <F11> for the full-screen.
While it definitely isn’t beach weather yet, the C... (show quote)


wow what an awesome sight...you must be looking forward to spring and summer. enjoyed the set, paul.

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