Interesting Photo of the Day: Chicago Painted Gold

Interesting Photos

It only happens a few times a year. Chicagohenge, where the sun’s rising and setting lines up perfectly with the city’s east-west streets:

Spring equinox is the perfect day to catch the sunset aligned with Chicago’s east/west streets. (Via Imgur. Click for larger image.)

Captured by a Chicago photographer with his Nikon D3 and a 70-200mm lens. The beautiful image was snapped with a 1/100 of a second shutter speed, at ISO 200, and f/4, giving viewers the detail of city life below while the brightness of the sun is blotted out by the impeccably-timed L train.