Chicago from the Air

Chris Tham on 2021-08-04

These images were taken from window seat of an aircraft descending into Chicago using one of the earliest digital cameras, the Kodak DC220 with a 1.2 megapixel resolution.

Note

This article is part of our USA Retrospective series, featuring images captured on an early generation Kodak DC220 digital camera with 1280×1024 resolution. The images have post processed to artificially increase sharpness. Please forgive us if they do not meet your expectations of photographic quality.

I took these pictures late in the evening as the flight was descending an arriving into Chicago O’Hare airport and was pleasantly surprised by how well they turned out. I love the geometric patchwork of fields covered in snow, and the plane following the path of Chicago River into the city.

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Chris Tham is a co-founder of Visual Voyager Pty Ltd, the Principal Voigtländer Ambassador for Mainline Photographics and a Workshop Instructor for Mainline Photo Academy. She brings over 35 years of experience as a photographer to her role, starting with a Yashica rangefinder belonging to her dad, joining the Photography Club in school, and developing her own photos. More recently, Chris has been taking photos during her travels, and as a result has experienced some of the most interesting places in the world. Chris focuses on nature, street, and urban architecture subjects in her photography.

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