Congrats, Slobodan! A nice image - but WHAT is it? Well not that that is so overly important, but...
Thanks Hening and everyone else.
It was in the Architecture-Buildings category of the Awards, so it is a building
As Chris pointed out, it is indeed the 83-story Aqua building in Chicago. The thing is, it does not look like much from a distance, as the attached first two images (not mine) illustrate. Only when you come closer, real close, and look up, you start to see an incredible number of different shapes, created by the fact that not two balconies are the same shape. You can spend hours exploring various angles and framing. For this particular image I further took it into abstract territory by inverting the curves and playing with white balance until I got the effect I liked.
In this state, depending on imagination, you can see a field of wheat after storm, The Girl With the Flaxen Hair (
La fille aux cheveux de lin - Claude Debussy), brain waves, or a river of liquid gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOxJpPiFe0k
