I'm not a very avid landscape photographer but during a recent visit to Chicago I spent the day with a very good friend & photographer, John Wolf. He participated in the SoFoBoMo project for 2009, and showed me some of the locations that are in the book he produced for that project. We traveled from the western suburbs all the way to the Mississippi River and into Galena. It was quite an adventure as I'd never been to this part of the state even though I'd grown up in Illinois. The most amazing revelation was the wind farms. I'm aware of wind farms from my traveling by car between Arizona & LA through the Banning Pass. Even so, I never experienced wind the likes of this. The only thing that even comes to mind is standing on the beach in Florida as a hurricane was approaching. As I write this I realize that there is nothing in this photograph that depicts such strong winds. You'll just have to take my word for it . . .
