After a good wet Spring, the nature preserve where I like to photograph came alive with irises. Those days feel like they’re gone. Chicago has had less and less rainfall, and more and more heat, from year to year over the last decade, and this part of the pond doesn’t even exist anymore. This is a bittersweet reminder of what we could still have.

May 13, 2012. Nikon D90 (DX sensor), 70–300mm Nikon zoom lens at 70mm (35mm equivalent: 105mm), f/11, 1/500, ISO 400.