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I’m done with Centennial Beach, a lot of The Riverwalk, and I’m moving my way to finishing the modeling on downtown Naperville itself.

Just kidding.

I actually finally got a chance to go up to the top of the Naperville Carillon last weekend.

It was pretty awesome, I’d love to get more specifics about the radio equipment on it. I spent equal amounts of time admiring all the bells and the complex cable mechanism which drives them as I did tracing the massive trunks of inch thick wiring running to each of the different antenna banks. $3 well spent. I even got to talk to Mr. Chuck Seidel (The father of the Naperville Carillon, more or less.) and get his opinions on how far off the carillon in its current state was from his original mental image.

It hit me on the way home how awesome photos taken from the carillon would be for crazy lens blurs in photoshop to create the illusion of the photo being taken of a miniature. Unfortunately, of all the photos I took when I was up there, I only had two solid source images. When you take photos with the ultimate goal being creating a faux miniature, you have to shoot from a believable angle. If you were taking photos of a small model train, you would be shooting from hard angles with your macro mode enabled. Most of the photos I took when I was on the top of the carillon were like this:

I was pretty amazed with how far away you could see, that crazy building is on I-88! But, without a solid would-be model target these photos are no good. Ah well, weather permitting I’ll be up there again this weekend and hopefully will have much better source images!

I’ve also got a whole photo set of the entire adventure.

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