This late-afternoon image of Cloud Gate, AKA "The Bean," in Chicago's Millennium Park, is one of my favorite pictures of a city that has been close to my heart for a long, long time.
The Bountiful Days of '47 parade is an annual favorite, celebrating the town's pioneer heritage a few weeks after the 4th of July. In the summer of 2012, the parade's final entry was a re-creation of a story from the Book of Mormon, documenting the military service of 2,000 stripling warriors. For anyone who has felt that parades have swung too far towards local businesses throwing taffy to greedy kids in recent years, the march was a welcome change of pace. To get this shot, I convinced one of the public address announcers to let me climb up on his scaffold, where I could get a better angle on the moment.
As we got close to go-time at the July 2012 Foster the People concert out at the Great Saltair, things got a little tight in general admission, and security had to pull a patron or two to safety, as you see here.
