Millennium Park - Chicago

Thursday, my brother Ray, his wife Aspo and son James took me downtown to check out the sights. He also drove his daughter, Sofia to the Culinary Art School and dropped her off at the school. The school is located near the lake in downtown Chicago.
I posted pictures taken from my small canon camera. I didn't post pictures taken by my better digital camera because I forgot to take the adapter needed to extract the files, duh.

Some street scenes in Downtown Chicago:





The school were Sofia is learning to be the next TV chef personality. I can't wait for her to open up her first restaurant because I already put in dibs to be the official food taster.

That's Sofia, next to the water fountain.



This is the restaurant that Sofia works before school. It is called the "Frontera Fresca" located on the 7th floor in Macy's. Oh by the way, it is owned by Rick Bayless and he was there when I took this picture. He was eating at a table on the floor with acouple of people.



The following pictures are of Millennium Park, located near Lake Shore Drive and opened up in July, 2004. I took a lot more pictures of the park with my other camera, but of course I forgot my adapter so no good pictures. I will try to post them in the near future.

Pink & Blue

On my way to Chicago via SF airport, there was a exhibition of pictures from an artist at the SF airport. I thought they were interesting so I took pictures of the artist's pictures. Basically she claims that girls are indoctrinated at an early age that pink is their color and blue is for boys.

I apologize for the pictures. I used my little camera with no flash. The pictures were behind a glass enclosure and I had no tripod.

Bali - rice paddies

One of the ladies at work went on a 3 week vacation to Bali. needless to say, she was hesitant to come back. It was just way to nice in Bali. She took numerous pictures and this is one of them. I enhanced the color and contrast to give it a little pop and the result is below.

Irelan painting

I took this picture and applied a filter that changes the picture into a painting.

Spring is here...

A couple weeks ago when my little princess and I were at our favorite park in the hills, I took a picture of the landscape. This was done during the midday and you can tell that the colors are all washed as referenced by the picture below.


I then took this same picture and applied a few photoshop filters an voila. The picture below is the result. I actually did some blurring and saturation adjustment, I was looking for a picture that looked like it was painted. I think I did a decent job.