We have finally launched journalimage.com, a website & blog specifically for street candid pictures and documentaries. After having your trust & readership for almost two years, your constant feedback, suggestions for more concentrated street photography and encouragement have convinced us to move ahead with journalimage.com.

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We hope to present candid street pictures, stories, techniques and documentaries from New York City, San Francisco, Boston & Chicago among other cities & metros of US. As in the past, we will also run street projects including street artists, street musicians, body art, street fairs & portraits on journalimage.com..

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You could read the new blog here and email me your suggestions and questions.

Pennsylvania landscape on I-80 @ photoduniya.com

The images on this journey are taken mostly while driving on hand held Nikon D200. More on the trip will come up later on the Travel section of photoduniya.com.

Day 8 was planned to be a rest day as well as to see the city of Chicago. Fortunately, and quite by luck, we found an affordable hotel right on Michigan, about a block’s walk from the Millennium Park. The day had been cloudy with mild wind and temperatures hovering around the thirties.

Millennium Park in Chicago, IL @ photoduniya.com

We spent our day and the evening at Shedd Aquarium, Grant Park and walking along Michigan in downtown Chicago. In the evening the Sears Park, also known as McCormick Tribune Ice Rink, lights up with the decorations from the Christmas and New Year’s celebrations and fills up with eager skaters of all ages.

McCormick Tribune Ice Rink in Chicago, IL @ photoduniya.com

Our day ended at about 9:00 PM CST. Tomorrow we head off east from Chicago and drive through Ohio as close to Pennsylvania.  More on the trip will come up later on the Travel section of photoduniya.com.

We have covered close to 2700 miles now and reached Chicago, IL where we want to rest for 2 nights before heading eastwards again. In the map below, you will see the deviation from I-80 (in pink) where we traveled northwards on I-88 East to Chicago, IL.

Today’s drive had been mostly through Iowa, starting from Council Bluffs in the western end through Des Moines into Illinois. The drive had been strenuous mostly due to the strong surface winds which blew northward at speeds of about 25 mph on an average. It is very hard to keep high driving speeds in such strong cross winds, but we covered the 650 miles in about 8 hours of drive-time.

Iowa landscape @ photoduniya.com

The landscape through the drive was quite monotonous, with wide snow covered land areas lying on either side of the highway. The drive suddenly changed when I-88 East neared Chicago, IL with very high traffic – mostly the office-time drivers. We touched Chicago, IL at about 8:30 PM Central Time. It is about 15 degrees Fahrenheit with wind chill close to 2 degrees. I spent an hour and a half outside with my camera in the city hoping to find some interesting stories.

Night scene in Chicago, IL @ photoduniya.com

The images were done with hand held Nikon D200 with no flash. I shall update the Travel section of photoduniya.com with the more details on the cross country drive from California to New York.

We have covered almost 2100 miles by the end of Day 6 on this cross country drive. That leaves us another 1200 miles to cover before we could reach New York.

The drive through Nebraska had been very nice. The bright sunshine with low cross winds and the almost flat drive across Nebraska made it a very comfortable drive. We were able to maintain an average speed of between 85 mph to 90 mph for most of the time. I-80 however had road work for about 10 miles at the eastern end of Nebraska close to Omaha which slowed us down to about 50 mph for a short while.

Sand Desert in Nebraska @ photoduniya.com

This image was taken on hand held Nikon D200 while driving. I shall post more on the trip and images on the Travel section of photoduniya.com.

It’s day 4 of our trip and it was nice to lay in the bed till noon and get back much of the sleep. We finally made out to the open at about noon and surprised to see the sun peeking through the clouds. Our first drive was a quick one to a pull-out on the WY-22 pass, about 10 miles from Jackson Hole. I wanted to take some vista pictures that i had in mind from driving into Jackson Hole the night before.

Jackson Hole in winter @ photoduniya.com

A lot of my images are done while driving, sometimes at 90 mph, and thus bound to be less sharp. But having a wide angle definitely helps in reducing the shake. The windshield is not often crystal clear, especially in winter with all the rain and the dust sticking to it. I hope to clear out the images in photoshop later.

Jackson Hole on WY-22 in winter @ photoduniya.com

We meandered the afternoon in the quaint town of Wilson and downtown Jackson Hole. The small community here celebrates new year with the festivities of July 4th. With fireworks and food in a small park close to the Jackson Hole hospital. It’s about 6:15 PM Mountain time now, we are tucked in our rooms, getting ready for the New Year’s broadcast on ABC and sleeping the night off for a long 650 miles drive to Laramie, WY tomorrow. The temperature had been about 16 degrees Fahrenheit for most of the day and is expected to be -2 degrees Fahrenheit during the night.

Downtown Jackson Hole ushering in 2008 @ photoduniya.com

More images will be uploaded on the Travel section of Photoduniya.com. To all my readers, best wishes for a happy new year 2008!