Wilton park bench
It’s become one of my favorite locales for seasonal photo shoots. I’ve returned often to the Wilton Centennial Park and on this evening caught the empty picnic table, the orange lights and the quiet environment.
Looking back in North Dakota 365, I surprise myself at how many different ways the park can be photographed. It all started way back on January 4 this year.
The night produces a landscape of a different shade or coloring. Wilton’s Centennial park, a short two-block walk from my house is an attractive destination on an evening stroll. The pony-truss bridge moved in to the park is a pedestrian bridge now, though before it was moved it carried families and farm equipment across a nearby creek. On this night, it had one set of foot prints.
I used my tripod, kept the shutter open and tried several angles and several shots to capture the glow of the park. Generally it has an orange or yellow glow similar to the photo above, but once I process it to give it a visual personality, the blue tones in the photo to the right seem to suit the image, giving it that crisp clean cold look that you can feel.
North Dakota 365 