"Save Time Cash Gas". Foster Avenue near the Chicago River, 1954. This is in River Park, which today is just a park and thankfully includes zero gas stations.
So finally found something #Berlin has to offer for #WaterfallWednesday.
Stupid me forgot the QR plate for my tripod at home so I had to try balance this shot off a rock, semi handheld.
That Sigma 55-200 of mine really is a tricky lens regarding focus. Every time I think I'm finally nailing it and know how this lens works and wants to do things, it seems to develop a mind of its own and do something totally different. Sometimes creating pretty happy accidents, sometimes just delivering mediocre results like here, sometimes even ruining the whole shot.
Any city that is sufficiently large can make you feel insignificant, especially if you reside in one of its apartment buildings. It's comparable to a black hole with an endless gravitational force that diminishes you to a tiny dot in an expansive, concrete terrain.
A visit to the London Transport Museum comes highly recommended. There you can explore London's history and its transport system over the last 200 years.
Just be aware that the museum in Covent Garden only contains a few of the Museum's items, and that a Museum Depot is located in Acton, west London, holds the majority of the Museum's collections.
In an earlier life I traveled Germany quite a bit and this Marriott hotel was my go-to for events in #Frankfurt. The building is called the Westend Gate and was opened 1976 as an apartment and office tower. For a short while it was the tallest building in the country, some even call it Germany's first #skyscraper.