Monday, January 24, 2011

More Winter Fun at the Overland Park Arboretum

We bundled up and visited the Arboretum after our second big snow this January (4th snowiest January in Kansas City).  We saw families with little ones having fun in the snow and fellow photographers.

The sky was blue, as opposed to the snow photo shoot a couple of weeks ago, when the clouds were grey and featureless.  That creates opportunities for nice contrast in colors and great shadows.
 

Beautiful backlit golden grass plumes against the brilliant blue sky.
I used a polarizer which deepened the color of the sky.

Shadows on snow are always nice.

We saw tracks of lots of animals.  These are probably from the
deer who roam the Arboretum grounds.

Bundled up photographers!

My niece is a photography enthusiast and I always love to see her in action.   




She has a very creative eye.  Here are a few of my favorites that "B" took. 


Nice way to photograph the tracks of an animal - framed by the bushes and trees.
Your eyes goes right to the tracks.

Nice shadow play.

A nice, simple, graphic image

A different view of the grass plumes, showing more of the background than
my photo.  Very nice.  

Love, love, love the backlit grass with the sun flare.  The grass just glows

The cardinals were active in the bird area.

This photos is a nice abstract of the cardinals

The deer ran right past us and posed for their pics!

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