Arboretum!

Another recent trip I took, one much more successful, was to the Washington Park Arboretum. It's a popular park, but if you can manage to get there early on a weekday morning you can actually get some solitude. I made it just in the nick of time to photograph sunrise from Foster Island.

There was a thin mist in the air, which made for some of those classic rays-of-sunlight shots. This was the best:

And some leaf closeups! I was pleased with the way they turned out; I managed to get pretty close, and there was almost no breeze. And plenty of photogenic dew. Just the way I like it. The only problem is that the dew, especially in the first of this pair, had a lot of glare, even with the polarizer. Oh well, I still like it.