Chicago & Columbus

The new plane is great: http://www.flightdesign.com/index.php?page=product&p=1. The photo window was successfully installed last week; I then flew down to Miami from Sebring, flying in and out of plumes of smoke from the wildfires in the Everglades. The following day I flew in heavy smoke over to Ft. Lauderdale to fly home commercially. The atmospheric conditions made for interesting photographs, though not the typical pristine images of the Florida coast.

I am back in Cambridge and leave tomorrow for Chicago, IL where I will fly down to Columbus, IN and back, as well as shoot in the Chicago area. In Chicago I am hoping to capture green roofs, heat islands, blvd. tree plantings, McMansions in Hinsdale, energy and recycling facilities, and anything else that looks interesting. Going to Columbus, IN, I will be looking for ethanol plants, industrial agriculture and methane producing manure lagoons.

If possible, it would be great if you could send links either through Google Maps or Google Earth showing the locations of some of your site suggestions. In Google Earth you can do this by adding “Placemarks” to the Google Earth image. On the top menu bar there is an icon that looks like a thumbtack, click that and it will create a new placemark, you can then move the placemark around on the map, and rename it so that it is easily identifiable. To email placemark, go to: File > Email> Placemark (you can only do one at a time).

-Alex