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How to approach photographing an amphitheater

How to approach photographing an amphitheater

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How to approach photographing an amphitheater

- We're here at the Jay Pritzker Pavillion in Millennium Park, Chicago and we're looking at a beautiful outdoor concert hall designed by Frank Gehry, completed in 2004. Now before we photograph this, I want to take a moment to talk about Frank Gehry and Frank Gehry, arguably the most famous architect, he's also my favorite, so it's been a lot of fun traveling and basically seeing his different buildings and trying to find interesting ways in which to photograph them and I've traveled to Prague, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and he's got even a building in my hometown of Seattle. Being able to travel and photograph his work is phenomenal so I really encourage you to not only find a building that you like, you know, look up, see who designed it, see what else they've done, and go photograph those buildings too so having an attachment to an architect really enhances your experience and I really encourage you to do so. Now, one of the reasons I love Frank Gehry so much is that his buildings are…

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