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Not About Food But a Feast for the Eyes
As I noted in a post this past Thursday, wife Barb and I are fortunate to have an amazing view from our 30th story apartment in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, a vista that reaches across Lake Michigan's southern end, Navy Pier, the Chicago skyline and out to the western horizon.
We see sunrises, sunsets, storms, rainbows... and for a long weekend every August, we see military jets doing aerial tricks and flying in astoundingly tight formation as part of the Chicago Air and Water Show.
Many people love this event, which draws huge crowds along the Lake Michigan shoreline; I'm sure it's a tourist attraction. Others loath it because of the noise or the exhaust pollution or the risk of massive urban calamity or what they describe as a display of militarism. Frankly, I'd never attended an air show until 2011 when one appeared right outside our windows, and I don't know if I'd go out of my way for it if we lived farther away.
Nonetheless, I'm a photographer, and I regard taking photos of speeding aircraft as a good test of how my reflexes and focus are holding up. I hope you'll agree upon viewing the following that they are both holding up pretty well.
And yes, these bad boys do make some passes very close to our apartment building.
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