FINDING A PLACE TO CATCH THE SUNRISE STARBURSTS It had been a beautiful

It had been a beautiful spring morning at Wildflower Lake with cool crisp air and excellent lighting to photograph the lake and some of the wildlife

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A winter afternoon snowfall covers this cattail and surrounding wetland prairie scene on this cold February day at Wildflower Park

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FINDING A PLACE TO CATCH THE SUNRISE STARBURSTS It had been a beautifulOvernight we had 2 3 inches of snow and the forecast for this morning was to be sunny with a few clouds, so I decided to brave the frigid 18F temperature to catch this sunrise in the park. Combining the recent snowfall and the sunshine predicted, I set out to photograph the sunrise. As I was trekking along, I was thinking where I would photograph the sunrise and thought that the bridge over a frozen South Fork Kishwaukee River would be a good place to