Chicago Skyline

For anyone who wants to know what the Chicago Skyline looks like, here is a composition of three photos I took overlooking Millenium Park from the Field Museum. Which is to the south east of the Chicago CBD. There are many more buildings to the west and north/west that cannot be seen here as they are hidden by the eastern buildings.

The northern buldings (right of the photo) are pretty far away and appear much smaller. The two tallest buildings in Chicago are the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Centre. You can see the Sears Tower to the left in the photo, but the John Hancock building is so far away that it barely pokes out above the skyline to the right in the photo. Even though they are a similar height. The John Hancock Centre can be seen as the small black building with two antenna near the tall white one.

Also, Millenium Park is around 4.5x13 city blocks in size and consists of several park areas. Only the most south-eastern park running along the lake is visible in the photo. It starts out around half a block wide and tapers out to almost two blocks wide as it approaches the Field Museum. To see what I am on about, take a look at the satellite view from Google Maps. Here is a link (pointing at the Field Museum where the photo was taken). It takes around 45 minutes to walk from the (central) western side of the Chicago CBD to the Field Museum.

The photos were taken by hand, so they were not lined up as well as they should be. And the individual photos had slightly different lighting, so you can see where they are joined.

This version was modified for the web, so it is much smaller than the original. The original is also much clearer and does not have the pixelation around the buildings that came from cropping out the sky (original size: approx 6.5Mb@6000x1200). You can access a slightly larger version by clicking on the image.