A shot of some fountain lights in the lobby of the Embassy Suites Hotel in downtown Chicago.

I liked the rough symmetry and reflective qualities of the both the water and the stone.

After yesterday’s self-portrait of me reflected in "Cloud Gate" in Chicago’s Millenium Park, I went into my archives and found this shot I did last year of the sculpture. This provides a much stronger sense of just what an awe-inspiring achievement this piece of public art really is. (And from this angle, as some people have commented, it does indeed look like a giant, reflective Easter egg.)

That face in the bottom right of the photo is part of two glass towers that show huge moving faces on either end of Crown Fountain.

As I said before, "The Bean" (as Cloud Gate is popularly known) is one of my favorite places.

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The Chicago skyline with the Sears Tower, taken in the late afternoon February sun near the north steps of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. That’s Grant Park in the foreground.

In processing the shot, I was trying to evoke that sort of bleak, stark feeling you get when you look out over the skyline in the dead of winter.

A shot of the “Cloud Gate” sculpture in Chicago.

That’s the Aon Center (Chicago’s second tallest building after the Sears Tower) reflected on the surface.