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Sunset, creek, river, reflection, Nippersink Creek, Glacial Park, Hack-ma-tack National Wildlife Refuge, mirror image, sky, rocks, McHenry County Conservation District. McHenry County, Illinois, park, conservation area, wildlife refuge, sunrise, water, landscape, scenery, snow, ice, shore line
Summer sunrise on a native prairie in Glacial Park, which was recently dedicated as Hack-ma-tack National Wildlife Refuge. Glacial Park is located in McHenry County and part of the McHenry County Conservation District lands in Illinois.

I started out shooting the "old fashioned way" with a 4x5" field camera and by creating color transparencies. I then scanned them at either 1200 or 2400 dpi. Every effort is made to match the original transparency. That said, there was a time when I developed cataracts, and scanning and preparing images for this website became difficult. Now that I've had surgery and can see clearly again, some of the images seem a bit too saturated in color. That's because cataracts mute colors. It's like looking through window covered with a film of grime and dirt. The challenge and reward in 4x5" landscape photography is to capture things as they really are, and get the exposure just right. And at over $6 a shot, it pays to be very selective. ...