A little too excited - The Flamingo

Everyone shoots the Flamingo the same way. Wide, red, alone against the buildings. A sculpture photo.

I was trying to get that shot when a cab cut straight through my frame going full speed. Most people would've waited for it to clear. I didn't move the camera.

The cab's blurred. The sculpture isn't. Steel frozen still while the city moves through it at forty miles an hour, that's Chicago in one frame, not the postcard version.

Worth it.

This is the shot where a forty-ton public sculpture holds completely still while a taxi doesn't. This is the city actually moving, not posing for you.

This piece is for the person who knows the real shot isn't the one where everything cooperates. It's the one where something almost ruins it and doesn't.

Not the one who decorates. The one who sees.

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Most popular: 16×20 fits most walls and ships free. Want it to own the room? The 24×36 is $20 more.

Print details

• Unframed (frame shown for styling only)
• Each size individually cropped for the strongest composition

Available sizes 11×14 · 16×20 (most popular) · 24×36 · 28×40

Smaller sizes layer in a gallery wall. Larger sizes own a room.

Quiet, but never unseen.