Photo Time…
Had an opportunity to go out and shoot some photos yesterday…Wisconsin got hit with a snow storm on Wednesday, but by Thursday everything was fairly cleaned up…
I took a ride out to the Mitchell Park Domes in Milwaukee, it’s one of those things that exists in the city…but people often forget that it does exist. Admission is $5 and you tour three domes (similar to a biosphere) that are temperature controlled and have various plant life growing in them. One dome has a Tropical rainforest like atmosphere, and the other is an arid desert atmosphere…those two never change. The third dome rotates through out the year. And right now it had a model train set up in it…The Arid and the Tropical dome were a little bit more run down then I ever remember them being. I got a lot of interesting photos…but for the most part, there is only so many ways you can shoot a cactus.
After I toured the three domes and got a few exterior shots I drove to Grant Park which is right off of Lake Michigan in the South Milwaukee area…I didn’t plan on going there at first, but my aunt sent me an email which I got right before I left and it said that she took a ride through Grant Par, and it was beautiful…she said it would be a good time to go take photos there…So that’s exactly what I did. I took a hike for about a mile taking photos of the snow covered landscape. The snow was about 2 feet deep in some areas and I was pretty well covered in snow by the end of the hike…But surprisingly I wasn’t that cold.
I finished up my day by going down to the Marina…and taking pictures of the boats in storage and the frozen lake…This is usually a favorite of mine seeing different ways I can photograph the marina…it’s an interesting place with a great view of the city. I also took a lot of photographs of the Hone Bridge, from underneath mostly…I drove to the summer fest grounds where you have a clear access of the bridge from all angles…not a soul was around the festival grounds so I had my run of the place.
All in all it was a good day of photos…I haven’t looked at any of the close to 300 photos I took…so I’ll be curious to see how they turn out..