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DuPage River
Naperville, IL
Taken from the bridge at the McDowell Grove park entrance. Did I step on the vibrance, clarity, and saturation a little in Lightroom Classic Who could have possibly guessed?
Saw this interesting tree growing arms or roots or whatever across the ground away from the trunk and towards the water below.
DuPage River, Warrenville Grove Forest Preserve
Nikon D5100, Tamron 18-270, ISO 100, f/8.0, 100mm, 1/125s
This room to myself
Even talking in a hush
Would be quite startling
FTR: No heavy retouching. Just a bit of vibrance.
Wishing everyone a safe and joyous holiday season with those you love. 2014 was a year full of amazing photographs here on Flickr, looking forward to another year of outstanding images in 2015.
Merry Christmas!
Fallen leaves work their way downstream in the DuPage River. Eventually they will decompose and add their nutrients to the river.
DuPage County Historical Museum ~ Wheaton, Illinois
Olympus E-500, Olympus 18-180, ISO 100, f/6.3, 25mm, 1/125s
From Wikipedia ...
Adams Memorial Library was the first public library in Wheaton, Illinois; along with a library in Downers Grove, it was one of the first two libraries in the county. Funds for its completions were donated by John Quincey Adams, a real estate investor and miller. Adams was born in Hopkinton, Massachusetts and moved to Chicago in 1851. He was the fourth cousin, twice removed of President John Quincy Adams. He co-founded the Chicago Board of Trade and became a prominent Chicago citizen. Adams moved to Wheaton following the death of his wife, Marilla Phipps Adams, for whom the library was named. Charles Sumner Frost, who had recently designed the Chicago and North Western railroad station in Wheaton, was selected as the architect. It was one of Frost's first commission after he split with partner Henry Ives Cobb. Ground was broken on October 2, 1890 and Adams dedicated the museum on October 28, 1891. The library classified books with the Dewey Decimal system, becoming one of the first in Illinois to use this system. Adams Memorial was the main library in the region until a new library was constructed in 1965. The endowment from Adams completely supported the facility until 1923, when Wheaton provided additional funds. The initial book purchase by Adams exceeded 2,700 books.
The DuPage County Historical Society purchased the Adams Memorial building in 1965 and transferred ownership to the county. It re-opened as the DuPage County Historical Museum in 1967. On June 4, 1981, it was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum seeks to "educate the general public through the collection, preservation, interpretation, and exhibition of materials which document the history of DuPage County and its relationship to Illinois and the nation, and to provide local history services for historical organizations and for scholarly endeavors."
Hammel Woods, Will County Forest Preserve District, Illinois, USA
Fujifilm XT5, Fujinon XF23mm f2
You can find me at medium.com/@vplutphoto
There's a nice river nearby. It's called the DuPage. It's about 50 miles or so west of Chicago. Flows nicely when there isn't a lot of rain. It can be clear too; looking more like trout water than smallmouth water, but it's too warm for trout. (And, that would be Smallmouth bass. I like that fish. A lot.) Very pretty that river can be much fun to wade around in.
I always wear waders. Light-weight ones. No wading bare-legged any more with water up to my tender bits. The water may be clear, and look clean, but aging immune systems aren't always as strong as young ones. I'm not interested in trying to "man up" and wade against little bitty live things that can find ways to get into and under the skin.
Age. Wisdom. Sometimes a good match.
True, youth isn't wasted on the young, but it wouldn't hurt if some of that youthful vim and vigor, piss and vinegar were spread out a bit more evenly over six or seven decades. Nonetheless, I still have - with whole bunches of gratitude, I must state - legs that allow me to wade in current over uneven rocky bottoms for four to five hours or so. Many can't.
Back to my fish. This is a nice size one for this species. The camera didn't catch my toothy smile. The fish was jumping around a bit, needed to hold her steady. The smile dropped a bit. But I'm smiling inside, like an eight-year-old about to dive headlong into a big piece of chocolate cake and a bowl of ice cream.
The fish was released. I only eat fish in a restaurant, a fast food joint, or one I buy at the grocery store and have at home.
The rod I'm holding is a Tenkara rod. It's a Japanese style of fly rod. 13'6" long. No reel, no reel seat, no regular fly line. Real light in weight and it is fished with one hand. It holds a light line (a leader) at the tip of the rod, some tippet, and a fly or lure. Very simple (but not simplistic). Lot's of fun. Full of creative possibilities. I catch a lot of smallmouth using it while wading the "Dupe" and other succulent rivers. (Yeah, that's right. I said "succulent." Ain't manly enough? KMA.)
Oh, the catfish hat? That's another story.
Life is good, don'cha' know.
Photo by John Miao.
Collings Foundation's B17G "Nine O Nine" takes off from Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling bound for DuPage Co. Airport.
Former DuPage County Courthouse ~ Downtown Wheaton, Illinois
This tower sits atop a grand historic structure which has long been the showcase of downtown Wheaton. Designed in Richardsonian Romanesque style, the building served as the DuPage County Courthouse from 1896, when it was constructed, until 1990, when it was replaced by a new courthouse elsewhere in Wheaton. In danger of being demolished, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The property is now part of Courthouse Square condominium development.
Nikon D7500, Sigma 18-300, ISO 1800, f/4.8, 50mm, 1/60s
The DuPage County Historical Museum building was built in 1891 as a library for Wheaton, IL. The DuPage Historical Society moved in when the town needed to create a larger library building in 1967.
NILTC has staged a successful spring show at this place for the last two years. This year, I was asked to create a model of this building in Lego. It will be installed this weekend.
Atop Greene Valley Hill at the DuPage Birding Club Hawk Watch
Greene Valley Forest Preserve
Bolingbrook, Illinois
41.730389, -88.078482
September 21, 2003
This is from almost 18 years ago. Alas, a few people in this picture have gone on to that great hawk watch in the sky.
This is a redux of this shot
www.flickr.com/photos/jimfrazier/5569506809/
Obviously reverted to color, adjusted exposure, enhanced the sky, more panoramic crop, and noise reduction
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