Photos

I happened to be in Madison a couple of Sundays ago, just before the annual running of the Capitol Mile, a romp around the state capitol grounds in the city's downtown. I'd bought my first polarizing filter a day or two earlier, and this was my first foray with it. I was struck by the runner trudging to the starting line -- and by those clouds. I left the bike tire in at the edge of the frame because it's part of what evokes Madison -- bikes seem to be almost a trademark in the city. It was a few minutes after a shower, but already the skies were lightening enough to go for the low ISO, and I felt the wider-angle lens would really help show the whole scene. It was, for me at least, an interesting urban landscape.