TEXTURES AND PATTERNS FROM THE EARLY MORNING SNOW DUCKS While watching this pair

While watching this pair

I left the house before 5:am and after photographing the wildflowers for a couple hours

Most of the South Coast is made up of sea cliffs and beaches

I thought it would be another beautiful and colorful sunrise so

TEXTURES AND PATTERNS FROM THE EARLY MORNING SNOW DUCKS While watching this pairThis January winter morning sunrise brought some incredible lighting of cool and soft looking colors around these elderberry bushes along the South Fork Kishwaukee River in Northern Illinois. I like how the soft lighting brings out the textures of the patterns in the snow beneath the elderberry bushes. The temperature was an incredible 28F. (529 38)