And the moral for this day, dress appropriately!  Knowing that rain had been forecast, I had at least prepared for that, but was otherwise underdressed.  With a temperature of -3°C  (27°F) at sunrise, it was far cry from just a week ago when the temperature at sunrise was 15°C (59°F).  I arrived at Starved Rock State Park just before sunrise, which was at 07:17.

I had planned on spending at least half the day at the park where I intended to photograph the sunrise, the early morning light across the park and the morning light seeping in to the canyons.  As twilight became day, it became evident that the overcast sky would not produce the desired light for a picturesque view I was hoping to photograph.  Even if storm clouds had been on the horizon, they might have presented a more dramatic sunrise, or even a red sky, but alas, it was all rather bland.  From atop the Starved Rock outcrop, I managed to tolerate an hour of the nippy temperature before I decided to call it quits for the day.  Soon after it began to drizzle and then it poured rain for most of the rest of the day.

About This Photograph

The above photograph was taken from atop the Starved Rock outcrop and shows the varying autumn colours of the foliage across the park.  This was one of the last photographs I took this day as it soon began to drizzle.  Even though I enhanced the saturation of the autumn colours only slightly, the dreary overhead sky reveals the bleak weather conditions.