Smiley Canyon Scenic Drive winds between the hills, a great Sunday drive. There are good stopping points for photos throughout the route. The foreground trees here are on the flatter part before the hills really start. Normally, the landscape is brown and gray this time of year, but a layer of frost creates a whole new world. I counterbalance the round shapes of the trees with the S-curve of the road and strong angle of the rising hill beyond it. Some fog adds atmospheric perspective. I'm enjoying the warm tones from the foreground grass, which gets repeated here and there throughout the scene.
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| Cold trees and hillside viewed from Smiley Canyon in Fort Robinson State Park, February 2019. (Photo by Daniel Binkard) |
