I Was Here.....Freezing!!!

So I got to spend last week in one of the suburbs of Chicago working with the Motorola engineers configuring and testing the some of the data systems on the new radio system the County of Riverside has purchased. It was quite amazing to see our whole radio system with 60 sites worth of equipment all under one roof. I get to spend two weeks back there in March for our factory acceptance testing. 

So while I was there I took a 45 minute road trip to Downtown Chicago one evening to take some photographs. I had checked all the best vantage points online so I knew where to head right from the start. I wanted to get a photograph of the Willis Tower (formerly known as the Sears Tower). So the destination was Adler Planetarium knowing that it had a view of the city across a small part of Lake Michigan. I got there just before sunset and setup my tripod thinking that I was dressed warmly. Well I was except for my hands, in the space of 30 minutes I had lost all sense of feeling in my fingers and by the time I left about one hour later my hands had gone from a numb feeling to one of pain, in fact it took 20 minutes in the car to get the feeling back. I think the photograph was worth it though. In case you are wondering the lake was partially frozen and what you see in the water is the moving sheets of ice.