Chicago Snowpocalypse: Lake Shore Drive, 9:15-9:45 am

All of these photos are of Lake Shore Drive at the 51st Street bridge during what would normally be the tail end of rush hour. There wasn’t a car in sight, moving or stranded:

Taken from the bridge, facing north. Normally there's a good view of the skyline from here.

More folks standing on Lake Shore Drive, in disbelief.

Drifting on the Drive

The underside of the 51st Street bridge

The plaque on the bridge

Walking back in my own footsteps

The Drive going south

Skiing over the bridge

Making a snow angel

I ended up following these folks back across the Park, and it was a good thing, too.  The shallow footprint trails had disappeared under the new snow, and it looked deep everywhere.  As I stepped into their footsteps, I was sometimes sinking up to my mid-thigh.  It was a challenging walk home.

Photographer’s note: jlodder warned me earlier that the camera meter sometimes wants snow to be grey, and I would need to overexpose.  I didn’t have a problem with that last week when the sky and water were shades of blue and green. But today, when the sky, ground, and even the air around me were all shades of white and grey, it was a big problem. Many of my pictures were very grey. I  tried overexposing a bit but it doesn’t seem to have helped. So many of these pictures were color adjusted in Photoshop, which has led to overcorrection on the blue side.  (Maybe if I knew more about how to color correct . . .)