MAJESTIC SUNSET AT WILDFLOWER LAKE BOX ELDER TREES (ACER NEGUNDO) I decide to photograph silhouettes

I decide to photograph silhouettes and close-ups along with the landscape in black and white which adds a little more mystery and mood to the images

foraging in trees and shrubs for insects

passing these oak trees at Wildflower Park

the foreground is made up of mostly dogbane plants which are in the milkweed family

Grasses from the prairie are reflected onto the South Fork Kishwaukee River in Northern Illinois that witnessed a morning dusting of snow

MAJESTIC SUNSET AT WILDFLOWER LAKE BOX ELDER TREES (ACER NEGUNDO) I decide to photograph silhouettesA beautiful sunset appears as the storm subsides at Wildflower Lake. (610 26)