More about Starved Rock & Matthiessen

We stayed in Peru, IL last night and started out this morning 6:00am. The weather is still not good enough for a sun rise. We went to Starved Rock first to hope a sun rise, but got nothing interesting. We went to St. Louis Canyon then. It is an easy hike, but the end of the canyon there is an interesting fall with lots of opportunities.

St. Louis Canyon in Matthiessen. I can get a high point, a little interesting perspective.



An interesting macro with Pentax-M 100/4 macro

Starved Rock & Matthiessen (for Oct. 13)

CCCC has fall color field trip every years since 2005. It is Starved Rock State Park, about two-hour drive from Urbana. We, Barry &I, left off 4:15am Saturday from Urbana. Unfortunately, the cloud was too thick there to get any good sun rise. Nevertheless, we wondered around and had a good time hiking and shooting. We visited Matthiessen State Park in the afternoon. It was a more interesting walk in my mind because it has a canyon with quite some water, which gives the life to the scene. But there were lots of people there and they kept getting into the picture. This is often a bit annoying although sometimes people make good complimentary to the scene. The group had a good dinner in Peru, IL and we stayed in La Quinta there. And we had a good time overall. Here is the link to more pictures.

This is multi-exposure (9 or 5 I think) with long exposure. So total 1.6*9. This creates a good swirl feeling, which I like.


LaSalle Canyon






I like this one. It reminds me the electric field graph I learned in middle school.