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Chicago: Shooting it Like a Pro

By Mark Rykoff

The Chicago Skyline

Travel Jon Lowenstein / Noor for TIME
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To photograph his hometown for TIME.com Travel, magazine photographer Jon Lowenstein bought a ticket on one of Chicago's jump-on jump-off tour buses and pretended he was a tourist for a day. First stop: this spot near the Adler Planetarium, which the tour guide indicated was a "good vantage point" to shoot the downtown skyline. Even better when you use your fellow passengers as foreground material.

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