BOUQUETS FROM THE PRAIRIE MILKWEED set up the tripod

set up the tripod

Wildflower Park

A pair of mallard ducks rests along the banks of Eakin Creek West as their reflections are cast on the surface in this wetland landscape scene during early spring at Wildflower Park

focused on this false sunflower and began shooting

The colors of the sunrise shifts from the purples and pinks of the early morning

BOUQUETS FROM THE PRAIRIE MILKWEED set up the tripodThe 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