Chicago from the Air

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 1280x1024 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.