The sun peeks through grey clouds, with just a trace of color.
You can say many things about Ada, Oklahoma, but one thing everyone says about it is that Francis Wintersmith Park is a jewel, an asset many communities don’t have.
Last week I had the chance to poke around Wintersmith Park with my photographer friends Mackenzee and Robert (link). We had fun, and it was a sunny afternoon I felt was best expressed by shooting in monochrome.
Later in the week, photographer Dan Marsh visited, so we walked in the park again, this time in the evening as it matured into the blue hour. I shot the entire walk with my Nikon D3000 and it’s perfectly-matched AF-S 35mm f/1.8 Nikkor.
These numbers were carved in the back of a park bench behind WIntersmith Lodge.As the blue hour progresses, streetlight begins to shine more on the water of Wintersmith Creek.This view looks straight down at a rusty stand that had been cut off many years before and allowed to rust. I guess this was the mount for an outdoor charcoal grill.As on the walk earlier in the week, we found more locks on the fence above Wintersmith dam.I went a little wild in this single-frame High Dynamic Range image of a tree I have tried to photograph mostly unsuccessfully for more than 30 years.This water fountain near Firefly Cabin takes on blue light from the sky.