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Shot from this morning as we were returning home from Chicago. My wife shot this for me and I like the view…

I remember seeing this hot dog vendor bustling with people back in May. When I went there this noon, this place was closed – although I spotted couple of other hot dog vendors still open by the Shed Aquarium. I am guessing proximity of this store to the lake being the reason.

If you are following my 365 project, this picture should look a bit familiar – I had these trees in row shot back in May (Day:142). I am visiting Chicago, and want to go back and see/shoot those trees in winter.

So I got bundled up on this cold day and went for a walk along Michigan Lake early this afternoon and shot these trees with snow covered ground.

Late post for day:352

With holidays just around the corner, we have gotten real busy and makes me wonder where did all the time go today?

Anyway, shot this when we visited library this evening. As the Sun was beginning to set, I shot this electric pole and wires (aka clutter).  What drew my attention was the patten formed by the crossing wires.

Now that there is limited light available, decided to do something with real low light last night – yes; this was shot last night after I posted my shot for day:334

I got inspired for doing portraits after looking at some of the portrait work by Brhum’ Bhatia – he does an awesome job with portraits.

Anyway, talked to my wife about posing for this shot and she was readily willing…I haven’t done a portrait shot of her for quite some time now.

So had this shot with a single light source – that being from an iTouch app iLlumination. For this shot, I had to set the focus right with the lights ON. Once I had the focus set, I took this shot with my wife’s face lit by iTouch @f/4.5 for 2.0 sec exposure.

My daughter was a great helper for this shot as well. She was the “light” girl last night. By the end of this shoot she whispered, “Oh I don’t mind if you gave me the credit in your blog post”. That made me chuckle – last week she was debating how she doesn’t like getting a credit. She is another regular in-house visitor to my blog post.