Hitchcock Nature Center
It’s the first of November, daylight savings time. When you set your clocks back an hour. The shorter days are here when the sun sets by 5 o’clock. Not my most favorite time of the year. However the warm colors of the leaves and the glowing sun is a nice feeling. It’s a sign of summer ending, foot ball season starting, and the holidays around the corner. I’v been wanting to get out to photograph the trees with their turning leaves before there all gone.
I’v all ways enjoyed the out doors and walking through any nature trail. Growing up my family and I lived down the street from Fontenelle Forest. A nature center in Bellevue, NE off the Missouri River. We often spent time walking the trails.
My grandpa and great uncle would tell me about the different trees and how to tell them apart from their leaves. I didn’t pay too close of attention at a young age. Now that i’m older I can appreciate the different trees and leaves. It’s great to photograph a subject matter that you grew up on. Hence I still don’t have a full understanding of the different trees, however I do have a appreciation for the beauty of nature trails and the turning of autumn. I wanted to share a few images, I was able to capture on my Sunday nature hike in Honey Creek IA, at the Hitchcock Nature Center.
Photographer,
Collin Leeder
