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What are Twin Peaks? The series from David Lynch which got a new season for 2017? Yes, correct, or an other possible answer is hills in San Francisco from where you can get a spectacular view of the city and the Bay Area. Our guide brought us there with the Volkswagen hippie bus. The weather was great so that I could take some nice shots. Helpful that I had my Sony Zeiss 24-70 F4 with me, to get the flexibility to shoot with the appropriate angles.  🙂

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• Camera: ILCE-7RM2
• Aperture: ƒ/6.3
• Shutter speed: 1/320s
• Focal length: 54mm
• ISO: 100

After wondering about the high prices for parking at the Chicago piers, soon my wife, my kids and I were walking near the Lake Michigan. Armed with my Sony A6000 I took some photos of the “blue hour”. This one with the impression of harmony and silence was the favorite of my wife Karin.

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• Camera: ILCE-6000
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/100s
• Focal length: 55mm
• ISO: 400

My wife’s cousin Ewald, who is a Psychiatrist, showed us, Cleveland. We started at Lake Erie; next stop was Museum of Rock, next stop downtown, then a football arena, then the hospital where he works. Last but not least we ended in the “Hofbräuhaus.”  Since his parents are Austrian and immigrated in the 50’s to Chicago, he also has some German roots. The beer was good, but the food, 😥 , I think the cook was never in the real Hofbräuhaus. 🙂

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• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/3.5
• Shutter speed: 1/2000s
• Focal length: 18mm
• ISO: 400

It’s a pity that most of the towers don’t have open air observation decks anymore, often you have to shoot through the windows, like here on the Willis Tower in Chicago. Then you have to search after a relatively clean, scratch-free window to take your photos. With this, you get motives you maybe won’t shoot frequently but bring you still excellent views.

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• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/9
• Shutter speed: 1/125s
• Focal length: 70mm
• ISO: 100

The Museum of Rock in Cleveland is an impressive, modern building, four stories full of rock music reminiscences, videos, golden records, and anecdotes of the musicians. For me fascinating, I like them all from The Beatles to Kayne West. One of the eye catchers were those green guitars of ZZ Top, a band from whom I didn’t know many songs. But I changed that after the visit, where I searched after ZZ Top on Apples Music and listened to their best-of album.  🙂

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• Camera: LEICA X VARIO (Typ 107)
• Aperture: ƒ/3.5
• Shutter speed: 1/30s
• Focal length: 18mm
• ISO: 1600

During my boat tour on the Chicago River, I tried to get reflection shot. But the opportunity didn’t arise until we were on the way back to the harbor. After we have passed a bridge, I suddenly saw that glass facade with the reflections for which I waited. Since I had my camera in the hand all the time, I took the shots immediately  🙂

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• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/1600s
• Focal length: 70mm
• ISO: 200

Wow, so many windows. A hard job for a window cleaner  🙂  One of the many buildings in Chicago which are worth to take a photo. I have shot hundreds, because of this I neglected my wife a bit, but we visited some cool coffee bars for compensation.  🙂

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• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/1600s
• Focal length: 69mm
• ISO: 200

Chicago has those railway lines for the subway where the cars are below and the sub above and the continuation over the Chicago River are these iron bridges which are typical for this town. Best view from the excursion boat which drives on the Chicago River between the famous buildings of this great city. 🙂

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• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/4
• Shutter speed: 1/1600s
• Focal length: 69mm
• ISO: 200

Willis tower is still one of the highest buildings in the world, no wonder that you can get a great view in all four cardinal directions. The only drawback for photographers is, that you have to shoot through a window, there is no observation deck outside.

• Camera: ILCE-7R
• Aperture: ƒ/9
• Shutter speed: 1/40s
• Focal length: 14mm
• ISO: 100

This photo reminds me more of the big, wide sea of the Caribbean, not of Lake Michigan in Chicago. I think the time the photo was taken, has been the famous blue hour, the best shooting time for photo enthusiasts.

• Camera: ILCE-6000
• Aperture: ƒ/5
• Shutter speed: 1/125s
• Focal length: 55mm
• ISO: 100