This morning, I visited nearby Big Finn Hill Park. Frankly, most of the park isn't very interesting, but there are some swampy parts with some interesting plants and nice cottonwood groves. This picture was the one good one I got this morning. My camera did a good job of filling in the shadows - so good, in fact, that the picture almost looks like it went through HDR processing. It didn't, but it's still almost overdone. Anyway, though, I like the backlighting and the reflections.
Why only this good one, you ask? Well, the sun was so high and bright by the time I got outside that the light was too contrasty for very many good pictures. I had thought it was going to cloud up, which was why I waited. Clouds did not come - at least not in time for my purposes (it's clouding up now, but I'm eating lunch and have to go to work soon).
It's getting to be that time of year when I can't just sit around in the morning, waiting to figure out what's going on lighting-wise. If I do that, as I did this morning, I can wind up outside too late for good lighting. In the spring and summer it's wiser to go right out at first light and take the gamble based on the forecast. If it becomes sunny - something that is getting more and more likely - I can miss the good light, due to earlier sunrise and higher sun angle.
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