The Four Beans

Thinking Out The End Result
Bean 1
Bean 2
Bean 3
Bean 4
A few weeks ago I was in Chicago for the weekend to teach a workshop with Jeff Schewe.  The workshop was all day Sunday.  On Saturday though I joined up with LuLa videographer Michael Durr and we did an early morning Chicago walkabout.  I'll have a whole article on the walkabout coming up.  But, first I wanted to share part of that walk and talk about how I photographed the famous Chicago Bean.
The bean is a famous Chicago landmark otherwise known as Cloud Gate is a public sculpture by Indian-born British artist Sir Anish Kapoor.  I don't know any photographer who doesn't enjoy photographing the bean.  It offers an infinite number of possibilities of interesting photos.  I have photographed this iconic location many times.  Chicago is by far one of my favorite cities to photograph in.  This location is always a good place to start out my photo walkabouts.
Since I photographed this location before I knew the best time to shoot the ...