North Pond with Snow and Skyline

Dana took this shot of Lincoln Park's North Pond and the Chicago skyline from the northwest shore of the pond in December 2010. Interesting how the clouds and wintry branch hang just above the cityscape, with blue skies to the east, above the trees. I like the solitude this photograph captures, the stillness, the sense of hibernation, of a cold but bright winter afternoon in the capital of the middle west. I also like the coloring, the way in which the blue skies, white, snow-covered pond, and silhouetted buildings (against the clouds) contrast with one another. And the way the skyline works in concert with the grass in the foreground and the trees to the east, to encircle the pond, suggests that the buildings are just as natural, perfectly in place, as the other elements in the picture. An intriguing composition.

Photograph by Dana Angotti-Novick