ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Artist Anish Kapoor installed Cloud Gate, better known as the Bean, in 2004. Inspired by liquid mercury, it is made out of stainless steel and is one of the largest permanent outdoor art exhibits in the world. Due to its popularity, one needs to arrive before sunrise to capture an image without any people so that's just what I did. For me, it was a way to put Jet lag to good use.

While capturing the image, I was both impressed and spatially confused at the same time by seeing the sun peeking over the warped horizon and then see the sun begin to illuminate the Chicago skyline while looking in the same direction.

AUTHOR
When I was 15 years old I discovered my love of photography. Instinctively, I knew that he wanted a proper camera after learning the basics with various Kodak Instamatics. My parents told me that if I wanted to buy one I had to use my own money so I had to get a job. My father, a Dean at Colgate University, made a phone call and I was gainfully employed at Colgate's food service making $2.30/hour washing pots and pans. To this day, I still can't stomach a pan-fried pork chop.

After several months, I had saved enough to buy my first real camera via mail order from 42nd Street Photo in New York City, a Pentax ME. Soon thereafter, I became a contributing sports photographer to The Colgate Maroon and was first published at the age of 16 with a shot of a Colgate hockey player scoring a goal and the puck frozen as it hit the back of the net.

Having graduated from Michigan State University with a B.A. in Business, I never received any formal training in photography other than the odd class and workshop over the years. Life moved on and I always knew deep down inside that when there was more time (and more money) I would dive back into photography. Fast forward to the Spring of 2020 in Redmond, WA I saw some Bald Eagles in a tree at the condo complex next door and I immediately rediscovered my love of photography. Then in November of 2020, after growing increasingly dissatisfied with the quality of life in the US, I permanently relocated to Valencia, España and decided to take my photographic game to another level. Now, my principal activity is as a Travel, Landscape and Wildlife photographer here and around Europe.

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