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A LEFT-EYED VIEW
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The fountain is considered to be Chicago's front door, since it resides in Grant Park, the city's front yard. The fountain, located at Columbus Drive and Congress Parkway, was designed with sculptures by Jacques Lambert. It was donated to the city by Kate Buckingham in memory of her brother, Clarence Buckingham. The fountain itself represents Lake Michigan, while each sea horse symbolizes a state bordering the lake. The statues were created by the French sculptor Marcel F. Loyau. The design of the fountain was based on the Bassin de Latome and modeled after Latona Fountain at Versailles.
The fountain runs from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM every day from mid-April to mid-October. During a water display that runs for 20 minutes every hour on the hour, the center jet shoots up vertically to 150 feet (as captured above). At dusk, a light and music show coincides with the water display. The last show of the night begins at 10:00 PM. Each display lasts for 20 minutes.
The fountain contains 1,500,000 U.S. gallons of water. During a display, more than 14,000 U.S. gallons per minute are pushed through its 193 jets.
Buckingham Fountain was dedicated on August 26, 1927.
Photo captured October 1, 2010.
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@DowsherVision: Speaking of the right POV, I almost missed this shot. I took a few shots of the fountain with Lake Michigan in the background. As I continued around the fountain keeping an eye on the Lake, I turned to hear a dog barking and this view captured here slapped me in the face. I even captured a panoramic of the fountain and skyline, but it was too wide for Aminus3 when we're restricted to 800mm for width. When I first posted that panoramic here, I couldn't even really see the fountain.