
Butterfly at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum at Chicago’s Lincoln Park.

Butterfly at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum at Chicago’s Lincoln Park.

Purple cone flower from our front yard flower bed. June 2012

Macro detail of one of our variety of lily flowers.

In November I visited Millennium Park to try and capture some of the remaining fall color. I found, in the Lurie Garden that a few plants still had some color left as well. This was shot, deliberately, through some yellowed plants to provide a softening effect in the foreground. The composition might not have worked so well here, but I think the idea has merit.

We went for a walk in the woods today and found this jumping spider. I managed to coax it onto a twig and then onto my hand. Right after this photo the spider jumped onto the front of my camera lens. 🙂