OVERLOOKING 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, as the sunlight illuminated the prairie and a small area of rosinweed flowers during the early morning hours. Many species of wildflowers were in prime conditions to photograph including these rosinweed flowers that were near the blazing star flowers, false sunflowers and hoary vervain that I had just photographed. This rosinweed flower was off in the distance some but, I thought looked in great condition and compositionally eye appealing. I wanted to focus solely on this rosinweed flower being illuminated by the early morning sunlight so, I set up my tripod, camera, isolated the flower, composed, focused and began photographing. (513-48)