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Week 41, October 12-18, 2025

October 18th, 2025

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“Sunrise Sparkle”

October 12th, 2025

Tagged 2025, 25.09.08, 28-200 f2.8-5.6, A7r3, dew, flower, orange, Sept25, September, Sony, Spring Brook, St. James Forest Preserve, sunlight, sunrise, Warrenville IL, Week 41 2025, yellow

punch of yellow

There’s a bit of a story behind this photo:
In late August and early September, the sun is at the exact correct spot for wonderful sunrise photos on my drive into work. A couple of days before this photo, the mixture of sunrise and fog was perfect. I took a dozen photos that I was very excited about, and once I got to my office, I turned my camera back on to see the images that I’d captured.

And that was how I discovered that my Sony doesn’t have any alert when you press the shutter that there are not SD cards in the camera…I’d missed all of those (in my imagination) wonderful photos. So, for the next week, I stopped at the same three locations and captured sunrise photos, attempting to recreate those images that in my memory were perfect.

Anyway, I simply love this photo. I’ve shown it to a few people, one of whom said that it needs more tonal range or the addition of another color (roll back all that yellow to get some blue into the image)…but I like that early morning punch of yellow.

Week 17, April 27 – May 3, 2025 – Black Partridge Woods

May 3rd, 2025

Tagged 100mm f2.8 macro, 2025, 25.04.19, 28-200 f2.8-5.6, A7r3, Apr25, April, black & white, Black Partridge Woods, Cook County, Cook County IL, crack, dark, dew, drops, flower, forest, forest floor, ground, leaf, leaves, log, macro, monochrome, morning dew, Nikon D750, rock, rocks, Sony, stone, trees, water, water drops, Week 17 2025, WEEKS, WEEKS 2025

“Morning Drips”

April 30th, 2025

Tagged 100mm f2.8 macro, 2025, 25.04.19, Apr25, April, Black Partridge Woods, Cook County, Cook County IL, dew, drops, flower, macro, morning dew, Nikon D750, water, water drops, Week 17 2025

peaceful

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The soft purple hue mixed with the greens in this image bring my mind to a peaceful familiar space.

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“Evaporating Morning”

April 28th, 2025

Tagged 100mm f2.8 macro, 2025, 25.04.19, Apr25, April, Black Partridge Woods, Cook County, Cook County IL, dew, drops, flower, macro, morning dew, Nikon D750, rocks, water, water drops, Week 17 2025

magical dew

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There’s something magical about the beaded drops of fresh dew in the morning. I was searching for a tiny scene where I could capture the dew on one of the early spring flowers, and this vignette seems so perfect.

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