Gaslight Court Chicago Old Town

Gaslight Court is the gated historic 1900-era brick complex in the middle of Old Town Chicago at 1407 N. Wells. Several of the units have a funky 1/2 address, e.g. 1407.5 N. Wells.
The structures are nearly 100 years old and the brick pavers are all original. In the '60s, this Chicago Old Town gem was home to hippies and artisans who took up residence in the then-low-rent area and made candles and visual art.

Passersby will notice the abundance of brick both lining the alley and covering adjacent buildings, and if you press your face against the gate's bars, you will see potted plants, a lone tree, a bistro table and a lingerie shop, a running fountain built into one of two small stairwells leading down from one building, balconies filled with flowers and a hidden set of steps leading to an accounting firm, but the best way to check it all out is to make nice with one of the 19 residents who live in the adjoining buildings, which spill out into the alley.

Gas lanterns once lined the alleyway. The lanterns have since been replaced by electric ones, but this slice of Chicago history lives on - even if you have to nab something slinky to get to it.

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Chicago Theatre At Night

The Chicago Theatre, originally known as the Balaban and Katz Chicago Theatre, is a landmark theater located on North State Street in the Loop area of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. From 1925 to 1945 the Chicago Theatre was a dominant movie theater enterprise.

When it opened on October 26, 1921, the 3,880 seat theater was promoted as the "Wonder Theatre of the World". The theater's strategy of enticing movie patrons with a plush environment and top notch service (including the pioneering use of air conditioning) was emulated nationwide. During its first 40 years of operation, the Chicago Theatre presented premiere films and live entertainment, but a slow down in business at the Chicago Theatre, caused by economic and social changes during the 1970s, affected ongoing viability.
Now the Chicago Theatre is a performing arts venue for stage plays, magic shows, comedy, speeches, and popular music concerts. It is owned by Madison Square Garden, Inc.

The Chicago Theatre is one of the grandest movie palaces ever built. The structure is seven stories tall and fills nearly one half of a city block. The 60-foot (18 m) wide by six-story tall triumphal arch motif of the State Street fassade has been journalistically compared to the l'Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The exterior of the building is covered in off-white architectural terracotta with Neo-Baroque stucco designs.

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 6, 1979, and it was listed as a Chicago Landmark on January 28, 1983. The distinctive Chicago Theatre marquee, "an unofficial emblem of the city", appears numerous artwork and photography and movies and TV shows set in Chicago, and its neon font was used in the title of the 2002 film Chicago. The entire marquee was replaced in 1994, but retains the look of its predecessor, which was not part of the original design.

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How To Registering Copyrights For Your Photography

A surefire way to make sure your images are protected

PhotoShelter and ASMP teamed up for The Photographer’s Guide to Copyright, a new free educational guide with tips and resources to help photographers navigate U.S. copyright law and keep their work safe from infringement. ASMP past president James Cavanaugh offers some quick tips on how to register your work. 

 

While copyright is automatic, registration of your photographs with the United States Copyright Office is necessary to receive the full benefits and protection contained in the current copyright laws. Remember that registration not only protects you as the photographer, it also protects your clients' interests in the case of an infringement.

 

Here are some tips to register your work:

 

Register with the Electronic Copyright Office

 

Today, the easiest way to register your images is using the Copyright Office’s online registration system, eCO, the Electronic Copyright Office. eCO allows photographers to register individual photographs as well as groups of unpublished photographs and certain groups of published photographs.  

 

There are three components that must be completed in a copyright registration:

 

1. Complete the application
2. Pay the registration fee
3. Upload or deliver copies of the photographs being registered (eCO allows you to immediately upload digital copies of your photographs for the registration.)

Integrate copyright registration into your workflow

 

One roadblock for many photographers is assembling the copies of the work to be registered. Making registration part of your normal workflow is the best way to assure this can be accomplished.  

 

As part of your normal workflow, batch process copies of your files and put them in a folder for copyright registration. These images can be jpeg files that are 600 pixels wide. This should be done after files are renamed, metadata added, and basic corrections and editing are complete. This way when you’re ready to complete a registration, all of your images are in one place, ready to be uploaded.

 

Upload and register image files or proof sheets

 

To electronically upload the files, they must be put into a zipped folder using software like WinZip, Stuffit, or the compression software built into Apple’s Operating System.

 

Photographs can also be put into a PDF proof sheet format. This can easily be accomplished in programs like Lightroom or Bridge. However, the metadata will be lost for individual images.

 

Register in batches

 

While current registration regulations allow groups of photographs to be registered on a single application, the Copyright Law prohibits the registration of published and unpublished photographs together in the same application. 

 

But note: Be sure to limit the number of total images being registered to prevent a court from equalizing (reducing) damages based upon the total number of images in a given registration. This is based on a few recent court cases. 500 images is better than 5,000.

 

Register ASAP

 

Compounding the issues for photographers is the fact that clients rarely inform photographers when they “publish” their images or which images from an assignment were used and which were not. For some business-to-business applications, the lag from delivery to publication may be months. For photojournalists, the time between delivery and publication can sometimes be measured in minutes!

 

This is why it is so critical to register your work in a timely manner, and if possible, before publication takes place.

 

To learn more, check out The Photographer’s Guide to Copyright.

 

More at: http://www.popphoto.com/how-to/2013/04/how-to-registering-copyrights-your-photography

 

 

Once in a lifetime

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Reasons Not to Use Your On-Camera Flash

In some scenes, particularly those that are poorly lit, you will need a flash to properly light your subject(s). The simplest solution would be to use the flash built into your camera, and while they may work in a pinch, there are several reasons why you should use an off-camera flash rather than your built-in or mounted external flash.

Spencer Seastrom explained why.
 http://www.photographytalk.com/photography-articles/3211-reasons-not-to-use-your-on-camera-flash

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AFP freelancer wins Pulitzer for feature photography

An Agence France-Presse freelancer won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for a stunning image of Syrian rebel fighters holed up in a sniper's nest

The photo, taken last October by Javier Manzano in Syria's largest city Aleppo, was hailed by the prize committee as "extraordinary."

It shows two men gripping assault rifles, one of them stuck out of a hole in the nest, as light beams at different angles through more than a dozen bullet and shrapnel holes in a corrugated tin wall behind them.

Between them and the wall lie large sacks, and there is Arabic writing on the wall in front of the fighters. Besides the slender shafts of light, the rebels' lair is otherwise largely dark.

"The dust from more than one hundred days of shelling, bombing and firefights hung in the air," reads the caption on the photo as it appears on the Pulitzer site.

Read more about it and see the award winning photography at
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/345558/afp-freelancer-wins-pulitzer-for-feature-photography

In other Pulitzer prizes announced on Monday, the award for international reporting went to David Barboza of the New York Times for what the jury called his "striking exposure" of corruption at high levels of the Chinese government, including vast wealth amassed by relatives of former prime minister Wen Jiabao.

The New York Times won a total of four prizes. Other awards were for investigative reporting, explanatory reporting and feature writing.

The prize for breaking news reporting went to the staff of the Denver Post for its coverage of a mass shooting last year at a movie theater in Colorado that left 12 people dead and 58 wounded at the opening of a Batman movie.

The fiction award went to "The Orphan Master's Son" by Adam Johnson, which the jury praised as "an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the human heart."

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The stunning structure of a snowflake

Have you ever taken the time to analyze the structure of a snowflake after it lands?

Russian photographer Andrew Osokin http://en.www.lensart.ru/entire-uid-1676-sh-1.htm?ps=14 is a master of snowflake macro photography. He captured a dendrite snowflake cluster seconds after it landed. Dendrite crystals occupy a lot space and are optimal for high accumulations of snow.

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How to Take a Great Passport Photo

Most people on the planet—including roughly two-thirds of Americans—do not have a passport.

Without a passport, you won't be traveling internationally any time soon. And even if you have no immediate travel plans, just having a passport is kinda like having a muscle car at a red light. You won't always squeal tires when the light turns green, but you know you could.

If you have never held a passport before, it's a neat feeling when it arrives in the mail. For perhaps the first time, you feel like a citizen of the world. Merely having the possibility of international travel is better than not having a passport and being guaranteed you can't go.

Even better, unlike your crappy driver's license or student I.D. mugshot, your passport photo is something you can control. So if you are gonna be a jet-set traveler, you may as well look good doing it.

How?
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