My entry for the #monomad challenge.
As I've slowly gotten more into photography over the past few years, the one thing that has resonated with me is that one needs to stop moving to find the right scenes to photograph. When I first started taking photos as a hobby, I was always hurrying somewhere...hurry to the marsh to get a picture of a bird. Hurrying into the brewery to get a magical shot of some 150-year-old beer tank...hurrying to the river to find a perfect picture to take of some scene I hope exists and presents itself.
Today, my 46-year-old self has finally realized one just needs to "hunker down"...take in the sights, wait a bit, and then start photographing the world around me.
In this case, I walked to the end of a concrete pier and took a solid ten minutes to breathe in the freshwater air from Lake Michigan. What did that yield? Well...
First I noticed a 1000-footer on the horizon...
Some church steeples off in the distance...
Downtown Chicago off to the South...
And more importantly, dogs having fun along the shoreline... ignoring the bitterly cold water that they all seemed to appreciate...
Yet really, the most beautiful sight of them all is to look at the Great Lakes and see nothing but the horizon ahead.
All in all, it's the little things that matter!
Thanks for checking out my #monomad share! The Great Lakes are quite the experience to visit...if only I could do it full-time!
The pictures are really beautiful, I always wanted to see Lake Michigan. I am happy to be here with you friends
Thank you! The Great lakes are a wonderful area to visit...my favorite will always be Superior, but Michigan is a close second!
Nice photos.
My favorites are those photos with the wood in the water...
Thanks for share and cheers from Mexico.
Thank you so much! I'm already missing the lakes as I write this...(and cheers from Wisconsin!)
Great photos with never ending waters, simply takes your mind to infinite.
You can most certainly zen out in a place like this ... my secret fantasy is to live on a Great Lake in the future (let's go Hive, lol!)
Thank you @brumest and @qurator - I appreciate it!!