Chickamauga at sunrise - Part 2

What's happening: last month I started sharing photos of a winter morning visit to Chickamauga Battlefield. In the last article I shared photos from just the first auto tour route stop. Now my best friend and I have driven onto stop two, three, and four...

One thing that I really liked about going on this trip with my best friend was that he would encourage me to poke around in some parts of the park that were a little off-the-beaten-path, but still really cool. Sometimes the neatest things can be found by doing that! For example, as you'll see in the below photo, the sun had just popped over the horizon. I loved how I was able to capture this sunburst on the monument, which was a little ways off the road. Definitely a place I wouldn't have visited without some encouragement!

Unfortunately I did not have my telephoto lens on, but I still enjoyed trying for shots of this deer. He was a little scared of us humans! As a diversion, I enjoyed snapping these shots of the cannons below:

I really liked this Alabama monument, so tall and lonesome against the barren trees...there was a trail just to the right of this monument, and I followed the deer down it a ways. Was pretty happy with this shot of them! :)

Of course I had to get a picture of my pretty car ;) Below, at the Brotherton Cabin location (see more pictures below), I really enjoyed "capturing" the sunburst right behind the wheels of the cannon.

It is really fun taking pictures in morning's golden hour of light. Just overall, it was great playing around with different compositions and seeing what effects they had on the overall pictures...

This is one of my favorite cabin shots - it looks so small against the much bigger trees, ground, and sky. And the below two - there is a difference between placing the sun behind the pillar and right next to it! So fun to play with angles.

What pictures are especially your favorites in this series?? Leave me a comment and let me know! :)

To be continued...