Autumn in Crow Island Woods

Crow Island Woods is a fantastic place for autumn nature photography. Towering

 red, green, yellow, and orange trees create a botanical ceiling to a dense, compact 

field of wildflowers and shrubs with a wood-chip trail circumventing it. This terrain 

provides for hundreds of potentially great photographic subjects which as a whole 

are quite overwhelming and individually are very interesting.

Last year I took a bunch of pictures of Crow Island Woods during autumn to capture 

all the changing colors and the overgrown foliage, and this year I went back to try to 

do the same exact thing but also emphasize the stage-like nature the dense layer of

 shrubs by singling out the brightly colored subject with a shallow depth of field. While 

also skewing perspective and scale, this renders the photograph more like a case in a

 museum, exhibiting an artifact, than a depiction of a landscape or scene.

Winnetka

Taken in September 2012