Lake Crabtree Project

I started photographing Lake Crabtree park in Raleigh late in 2010. Over the years I have captured over 7000 images at the park, including flowers, the forest, the lake and animals. I would normally visit the park at lunch time since I worked within a 10 minute drive.

I'm sharing a few of my favorites here, but you can see all my images over on Flickr here:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/wadebrooks/albums/72157625275680707/

This is one of the first images that I really liked.

Later in the Fall I created this image.

This image below, was used in a photo scavenger hunt for the word embrace and was taken at the park. This was taken in 2014.

Another 2014 image that I really liked was this one of a great blue heron. There are several herons that stay around the lake and I always love to see them.

Of course the flowers are always beautiful as well.

And there are many chances to take some great landscape photos, like this one.

I'm not sure why, but I truly love yellow flowers and will always stop and take some shots.

Here's me at the park in 2015.

And more yellow flowers, you know you like them too!

OK, enough flowers! Sometimes I'm also being watched, like by this seagull I spotted on my walk.

The park really is very beautiful and calming to me.

And of course there is plenty of opportunities for abstract art.

Or the random heavy machinery on the property,

Some days the view is truly epic!

I think this is a good start for this project, we are now through most of 2016. I'll be back and add more soon!

Cheers,

Wade

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