Swaying Canopy in Elm Park

Somehow I got an idea that a photo of leaves swaying in the 

wind at night would look interesting and artistic, so I brought my 

camera to a nearby park and positioned it to look up directly at the 

canopy and set the shutter speed to 4 seconds and the aperture to f/1.8.

To capture the movement of the leaves, I used a tripod; which is 

something which I've found to be particularly useless. Other than

 nighttime landscapes or time-lapse, there is no situation--at least that 

I've been in-- where a tripod hasn't proved to be anything more than 

a cumbersome burden. Still, the movements of leaves in the wind or 

water can look fantastic if taken with a tripod.

Winnetka

Taken in June 2012