Several years back I photographically attacked the Grosse Point Lighthouse in Evanston, Illinois; sadly I haven’t been back since. The lighthouse is less than a dozen miles from where I live, and I need to revisit it.

I’d imagine it’s a spectacular place to photograph in autumn.  The lighthouse is located among trees about one hundred meters/yards from Lake Michigan’s shoreline.

This past autumn, for the week before and after the prime color extravaganza, I had some things come up that pulled me away from photography.  That bummed me out because I had been waiting for most of the summer for autumn to arrive, and when it did I was nowhere to be found.

Before waiting until October of 2012, I’ll head back up to Evanston to see what winter and spring and a gentle snowfall can produce.

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The Baha’i House of Worship in Willmette, Illinois.

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As previously mentioned in this space, some days I throw my camera in my work-bag to capture some images before, during or after work.  On this day, I was working Northwestern University’s graduation ceremony and had to be at work about 7AM.  I left work about an hour early and stopped at the Evanston Lighthouse to get the sun in that golden hour of soft, full light.  As I was wandering around looking for good angles, a runner came along the beach, turned at the break-wall behind me and went back north past the lighthouse, aligning nicely for this image.

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A nearly-empty Welsh-Ryan Arena, in Evanston, Illinois (home of the Northwestern Wildcats).

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