Because of global warming, the lack of snow has left the wintry prairie
landscape barren and skeletal. While walking around the Lake Forest half of the
Middlefork Savanna Preserve on New Years Day, I took a few photographs with
my 50mm f/1.8 that emphasize the repetitive, wood-colored deadness of the leafless
trees and dried grass.
After about five minutes of hiking along the path the freezing weather became
unbearable and I drove home. It's sort of frustrating that forgetting a minor thing
like a hat disrupted going so out-of-the-way to a place like Middlefork, but I guess
dressing for adverse conditions is a necessity for nature photography. It never
really occurred to me until now how the more prepared a nature photographer is
the more opportunities there are for good shots.
Taken in January 2013
Lake Forest
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