A couple days ago, we had several inches of heavy, wet snow where I live. I hadn’t planned on going out to make any images, but my 18 year old daughter wanted to go out in the snow, so we grabbed a couple umbrellas and a camera and headed into the whiteout.

After ten days of photographing Autumn in Acadia (Maine), I was well primed for more color. I was supposed to do a shoot in Michigan in late October, but it was cancelled. I unexpectedly found myself with a couple days of ‘free time’ so I drove up to Illinois’ largest state park, Rock Cut, near Rockford and the Illinois/ Wisconsin border.