SUMMER BEAUTY FROM THE PRAIRIE

The forecast was to be another sunny beautiful day so, I left the house around 4:30 am and headed to the Burnidge Forest Preserve. The previous days I scouted out a few areas to photograph the wildflowers and the Burnidge Forest Preserve had plenty to photograph so, I made that my priority today. I knew where in the preserve I wanted to go to photograph the wildflowers because there were an abundance of them. It wasn't long before I reached the area of wildflowers I wanted to photograph. As I came upon the wildflowers, I noticed a few tall purple flowers standing out from the other wildflowers and knew that those were the blazing stars. The sun was just breaking the tree tops from the forest behind illuminating the prairie and the many wildflowers during the early morning hours. Many species of wildflowers were in prime conditions to photograph including these hoary vervain plants that were near the blazing star flowers, false sunflowers and yellow coneflowers that I had just photographed. I set up my tripod, camera, composed, focused and began photographing. (513-61)