Uncommon Photographers

Ken Ilio's Uncommon Photographers

This site is dedicated to intrepid photographers I caught on camera who put themselves in the most uncompromising (or compromising) positions just to get that perfect photograph.

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Museum Campus

Tourists taking photos of the scenic Museum Campus in Chicago Just an hour photowalk around the Adler Planetarium at lunch today. I had to go to downtown to hang a new show called “Found Photos” at the Chicago Photography Collective Gallery. As soon as it was over, on my way to my bus stop three [...]

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Night shoot

I wasn’t the only one braving the cold Sunday night to take pictures of the colors of the night of the city. It was absolutely fantastic.

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Another day at the park

I freed up some time last week to visit my favorite park in the whole world and just meandered through the park, taking pot shots of whatever. Great day!

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Short Walk in the Loop

I had to attend a seminar this morning as part of my re-training to go back into the workforce. It was a great, helpful seminar – basically how to perform well in interviews, how to sell yourself, how to be a professional. After the seminar, I went around the loop to take photos of the [...]

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Earth Hour Chicago, 2012

Photographers at The Bean during Earth Hour last night. Earth Hour (dimming/shutting off of lights for an hour) happened last night and I went to two places in Chicago to photograph the event. First, I shot at the area near the Adler Planetarium, on the breakwaters of Solidarity Drive to have a panoramic view of [...]

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Equinox

Photographers at last week’s “Chicagohenge,” a phenomenon that happens twice a year when the sun sets right in the middle of Chicago’s East/West streets thereby creating a “Stonehenge” effect when viewed through downtown streets. Taken from Millennium Park through Washington St. in the loop.

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Photographing the Photographer

Migration

I am migrating this site to a new site – here: Uncommon Photographers. It is the .com site of the domain. This site will still remain in existence but no new posts will appear here.

Dec 19, 2012 | Categories: Housekeeping, Photographing the Photographer | Comments Off

Waiting for Scotty to beam them up

There are several photographers there, somewhere.

Nov 03, 2012 | Categories: Millennium Park, Photographing the Photographer | Comments Off

Open House Chicago Day 2

I waited for almost two and a half hours just to get into the Jewellers’ Building during the second day of Open House Chicago. Open House Chicago is program that opensbuildings to the public to observe behind the scenes operations. This year, 150 buildings and neighborhoods opened their doors to the public.

The Jewellers Building is popular because of its history. When completed in 1927, it was the tallest skyscraper outside of New York City. It used to have an elevator that transported jewellers’ cars, so they don’t have to get out of the car or the deliver people don’t have to get out of cars when carrying jewels. Unfortunately, when the building was transformed into offices, that elevator was scuttled.

The building is famous for being the headquarters of Murphy/Jahn architects presided by Helmut Jahn, one of Chicago’s preeminent architects.

I didn’t hesitate at all to stay on the line and wait for 2 1/2 hours just to get to tour the offices … in 15 minutes.

These pictures were taken during the wait. I wasn’t the only one waiting and taking potshots of our surroundings.

This was the first stop of the 6 buildings that I visited today, the second day of the Open House Chicago.