Polarizing - landscape photography

Blacktop Road near Lebanon, Illinois
Photograph by Tom Atwood

There is a lens filter, known as a "polarizing filter," that brings out deep colors in color photos, and as you can see, also adds unusual contrast to black & white images, especially to clouds and a bright blue sky.
Almost other worldly.

Shutter: 1/200; Aperture: f/8; Focal length: 18 mm; ISO: 100

Virgin Farm

Near Emerald Mound
Photograph by Tom Atwood

Olympian Craig Virgin invited me to his parents' farm near Lebanon, Illinois one snowy day. Or did I invite myself? Either way, it was lovely.

Shutter: 1/250; Aperture: f/10; ISO: 100; Focal Length: 18 mm