I was on my way over to my friend Becky’s to pick her up and go shooting this morning.  I passed Marott Park, one of Indianapolis’s nature preserves, and for the first time noticed it.  Driving by, I only saw it for a few seconds but it looked like a good place to wonder around.  I got to Becky’s and the conversation was along the lines one expects when going out to dinner with friends – she jumped in first and asked where I wanted to go.  I answered with the standard “I don’t know” and she said “I noticed Marott Park the other day, would you like to try that?”  Wow!  We were obviously on to something here.

Marott Park is not large, it only had three picnic tables today and although there was a fair size field and then paths through the woods and down to Williams Creek it would be difficult to say it is any more than a modest size park or nature preserve.  But so what?  We discovered (again) that size of the park has little or nothing to do with it. 

The sky was overcast but that didn’t matter either.  It would be more profitable to think of the lighting as indirect and diffuse rather than weak.  The sun did come out after awhile and I got the shot of the leaves above.

My favorite shot of the day though, was of three trees standing near one another. 

This was a special day for me and I think it was for Becky too.  You can see some of her work, although possibly no images from today, in her galleries on photo.net.

Wondering around.  Nothing beats it.