Autumn Inspiration

Fall color season is beginning!  Here's a quick edit from yesterday evening's shoot atop the LaRue-Pine Hills in extreme Southern Illinois.

This unique line of 150-foot limestone bluffs rise out of the Mississippi River floodplain and even impressed the explorers Lewis and Clark in 1803.  From Captain Meriwether Lewis' journal: "Novr. 22ed 1803 …but here putts in some high clifts the summits of which are crowned with pitch-pine & seeder,these rocks are nearly perpendicular in many places sixty feet , and the height of the hills appear about to be about 120 feet above the banks which forms their base…"

Enjoy!