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Photographing a large sculptural object from above

Photographing a large sculptural object from above

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Photographing a large sculptural object from above

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(traffic humming) - Here we are on the 71st floor, 360 degree panorama views. I just did a walk through, looked at all the windows, it's just stunning up here. When you get to a city definitely look into getting access, sometimes you can pay for, like the Willis Center here in Chicago which is the tallest building in Chicago, used to be the tallest in the world. And sometimes they have a weekend, like the architectural weekend they just had here in Chicago where this building had full access as well. Definitely do some research because getting that aerial perspective is so cool. Now of course we're here for a very specific reason, and that reason is the BP Bridge by Frank Gehry. Having walked it down below, having done some work and tried some different things, I knew that the beauty of this bridge was the s-curve. That it really, really looks like a river of steel, and just to have this viewpoint on it, you see it all come together. It's very surreal to be down on the ground and not…

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