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Sharing Our Box Seat Angle from Our Apartment of the Annual Event
We 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.
This is a beloved annual event for many people and 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.
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. These pix are from a practice run today (August 8) by the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels. I know this has nothing to do with food, but I have a truly unique angle on a unique event, and so I'm sharing it with you.
Please note that high humidity and the infiltration of smoke from some distant wildfires today produced haze that make the photos less than perfect. Hopefully we'll get at least one blue sky day before the event ends on Sunday.
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