To keep mixing up the fall pictures, here's another picture out at Pine Hills.

Another fall picture, this one of a small stream with a couple of quick drops. The location is actually on the property where I live and the flowing water is the result of us draining some ponds for the research that I do.

I've got lots of yellow color this fall, but not much red. Here's the exception with a brilliant red tree on Forbes Lake.

I still have some Pine Hills pictures to post, but I figured I needed to introduce a little variety. This is a picture from Forbes Lake, right by where I live. This wide angle shot captures the color on the far bank and a lot of reflection of that color and the sky.

I like many aspects of this picture. The framing by the shadowed vegetation in the foreground, the tall light bluff and the bright yellow tree at the top.

This is a swamp/lake at the base of the bluffs at Pine Hills. I liked the reflection of the colors in the clear part of the lake.

Another picture of the bluffs and tree colors at Pine Hills.

Taking a short break from pictures of the bluffs (there will be plenty more to come). I just liked the color these trees were showing. The was also at Larue Pine Hills.

Here's another picture of some fall colors on the Pine Hill bluffs. This time not so zoomed in.

This is another picture from Pine Hills. This is at the base of the bluffs looking up. Though there wasn't a lot of color, some individual trees were showing color and it made for a good picture.

This past weekend, my family and I went on a day trip to the Larue Pine Hills National Natural Landmark in southern Illinois. The area is composed of some bluffs overlooking an old river canal that is now a series of oxbow lakes and swamps. The leaves were just starting to change color so there wasn't a lot, but there was some color. This is a shot from on top of the bluffs looking down at one of the swampy areas.

This fall foliage picture is a little different than the ones I usually take. I liked the lighting and the contrast of the yellow leaves with the trunk of the tree.

Well, it's fall again and the leaves are starting to show their colors. This year I hope to be able to post a bunch of pictures from multiple locations. This one is on the trail from our house to our pond.

This is the last of my Chicago pictures after the sun has set. That is Navy Pier jutting out in the middle almost splitting the city in half, Sears Tower on the left, John Hancock on the right.

The Chicago cityscape with a pirate ship tour boat in the foreground.

The Sears Tower (though I think they changed the name) and other buildings surrounded by the golden glow of the sunset. You can see the sunlight shinning through the glass windows of one of the smaller buildings.

The John Hancock building with the sunset illuminating the southern side. The structure with the green roof and flags is the easternmost point of Navy Pier.

Recently, I went on a dinner cruise with my wife in Chicago. It afforded me a great opportunity to take some awesome pictures of the city skyline during sunset.

I thought the color and cloud formation in this picture were different and neat.

This was the scene the other evening after some storms had passed through the area. I had taken this picture with the automatic settings on my camera and much of the color and texture had been bleached out. I reshot it with the manual setting and decreasing the aperture and it looked like this which was much closer to what I saw. I need to take a class sometime and really figure out what I'm doing.

A different perspective on the same sunrise scene.

Another sunrise picture, this time with some morning fog. This time of the year is always good for sunrise pictures.