PRAIRIE COLORS DURING A SUMMER SUNRISE PRAIRIE A beautiful morning walking through

A beautiful morning walking through the park with an abundance of wildflowers including these cup plants and ironweed plants in full bloom

The silhouette of a teasel weed plant is being backlit by the soft filtered summer sunlight at Wildflower Park

along rivers and ponds

I arrived at the trailhead with plenty of time before the colors of the sunrise would dominate the sky

PRAIRIE COLORS DURING A SUMMER SUNRISE PRAIRIE A beautiful morning walking throughIt was to be another beautiful morning and with that, I set off from the trailhead with camera gear and tripod in hand on this July summer morning at Wildflower Park. I was looking to photograph the wildflowers and sunrise on this day in the park. I didn't have far to hike to reach the west end of the park where there was an abundance of wildflowers. With the colors of the sunrise appearing just before the sun touched the horizon, I quickly composed