Photos

I took a couple days off at the end of last week, and I took a long hike through the woods over at McDowell Grove. I took my camera with, and took something like 300 photos while I was out. I posted quite a few to my Flickr account, but I thought I'd put up a few of my favorites here.

I walk across the the flood gates for the DuPage river to get into the forest preserve from the back, and I came across this cool stump right near the path.


Here's a macro shot of a fallen tree I saw in the woods on my way over to the dam. I almost moved the piece of wood leaning against the log when I came upon it so I could get a clear shot down the length of the log, but I changed my mind, and I think this came out really well as a result.


This is a macro shot of a ladder up to the controls for the flood gates on top of the dam. The ladder looked like it was welded up prior to installation, and then galvanized, which created a really cool pattern on the steel.


I spooked a couple of deer walking through the woods, but I managed to switch to my long lens without scaring them off, so I got some good pictures. I was in a pretty dense area, so there's a bit of clutter in the foreground. I managed to clean a bit of it up by applying some sharpening to the images. Next time I'll have to be a bit less noisy so I can get some clearer shots.