City Park
The last few posts have been describing some of my travels through the city of Milwaukee. It has a lot of photogenic landscapes with the tall buildings, historic monuments, and natural environments that the parks, lake, and river provides to visitors. A few years ago, the park planners even put in a very beautiful man-made waterfall that beautifies a water drainage way from the park to the lake below:
Nearby, we spent some time by the North Point Water Tower. Situated high above Lake Michigan, it is a beautiful Victorian tower that contains a 135-foot-tall standpipe that helped to being clean water to the city from 1874 until the 1960s. A traffic circle now surrounds the tower which makes clean photos easy to make from many sides.
Downtown was also a really cool place to take photos. We ran into other photographers that were walking along the 3-mile River Walk that follows the Milwaukee River behind many restaurants, bars, and residences. We had a great time seeing all the people starting their weekend fun by meeting friends after work. There was lots of boating activity from small catamarans, to larger dinner-board cruise ships.
River Walk
We walked through the Historic Third Ward with their boutiques, bars, and the Public Market. On the way back up the River Walk, we also stopped by to see the Fonz! He has a photogenic spot by the river – he could probably jump over shark in the river right behind him… ahem. I should probably quit while I’m ahead. Have a great weekend!
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