Motif: Spiderwort field

Posted by Paul Klenck on Mon Jun 14, 2004 11:24 pm

All times are UTC-05:00

0 people like this post

First unread post

| 5 posts |

Page 1 of 1

This was taken this morning just a few yards off Interstate 55 and the rain came a minute later forcing some drivers to pull over. The common spiderwort has been blooming in the prairie.

Canon 10D
28-105mm @28
ISO 200
1/50, f 4.5

Paul Klenck
Moderator

Website: [url]http://www.klenck.com[/url]
Twitter: [url]http://twitter.com/PaulKlenck[/url]

Posted by:
Paul Klenck
Forum Contributor

Location: suburban Chicago
Member #:00221
Posts: 18232
Joined: 21 Aug 2003

View portfolio
Visit website

by E.J. Peiker on Tue Jun 15, 2004 9:20 am

E.J. Peiker
Senior Technical Editor

Posts: 86788
Joined: 16 Aug 2003
Location: Arizona
Member #:00002

View portfolio

A very nice scene

E.J. Peiker http://www.EJPhoto.com
Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/EJ-Peiker-Nature-Photographer/

0 people like this post

by Jim Jirka on Tue Jun 15, 2004 10:06 am

Jim Jirka
Forum Contributor

Posts: 813
Joined: 5 Feb 2004
Location: Auburn, WA

Visit website

did you happen to get any images where the flowers were more prominent in the frame? this is nice. where on i55 was this. i lived near midway airport for 34 years before heading out west.

[color=blue]Jim Jirka[/color]

0 people like this post

by Paul Klenck on Tue Jun 15, 2004 12:49 pm

Paul Klenck
Forum Contributor

Posts: 18232
Joined: 21 Aug 2003
Location: suburban Chicago
Member #:00221

View portfolio
Visit website

Jim, This is at the DesPlaines State Conservation Area near Elwood. (Blues Brothers fans will remember Akroyd's character named after this town.) Immediately to the west is the soon-to-be dedicated Midwan National Tallgrass Prairie, which has undergone a massive environnmental clean-up from it's former days as the Joliet Arsenal. (Joliet Jake was Elwood's brother.) I drive this stretch frequently to go downstate and I noticed the blue fields of spiderworts last week in the sunrise light, but did not have time to stop and this trip I had some time but the rain came! I'll see if I have any closer one's worth posting.

Paul Klenck
Moderator

Website: [url]http://www.klenck.com[/url]
Twitter: [url]http://twitter.com/PaulKlenck[/url]

0 people like this post

by Wil Hershberger on Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:55 am

Wil Hershberger
Forum Contributor

Posts: 7577
Joined: 19 Aug 2003
Location: Eastern WV

Visit website

Very lovely indeed. Great sky too.

[url=http://www.cricketman.blogspot.com][b]Wil Hershberger[/b][/url] | [b]NSN0025[/b]
[url=http://www.natureimagesandsounds.com/workshops/index.html][b]Nature Images and Sounds Nature Photography Workshops[/b][/url]

0 people like this post