Frolf anyone?

In one of the parks, here in Monroe, lies a nine hole disc golf course.   While I have never played this particular game, it is pretty interesting to see how much of a following it has here in WI.   Living in Madison a few years ago I remember people going on and on about playing disc golf and participating in local tournaments.   I worked at a sports store for a brief period and the vast array of disc "golf clubs" that we sold always left me flabbergasted.    Just like in a traditional golf bag, you carry a driver disc, iron discs, and putter discs.   And, depending on the layout of the "hole", you use different style discs to maximize your approach to the hole, as in traditional golf.   The holes are these metal stands with chains coming off the sides to catch the disc as it settles into the raised bucket of sorts on the bottom.   Definitely, this is something I want to try.

I drove to the park on this chilly morning and thought about different ways I could capture such a common fixture.   The sun was just coming up over the horizon through the trees, so my lighting was ideal.   I walked around it and snapped all kinds of vantage points, even using the fixture as a background for shots of the park.   I lay under it and took pictures from below, put my camera close to it and tried for some landscape shots, and just tinkered around with it for a little while.   I put my wide angle lens on and then just put the camera on top and shot straight down.   What came from that was a pretty neat shot that showed the shape of the top piece and a lot of color coming from the trees and ground shadows.   I have to say, this is one of my favorite shots of this blog thus far.   I hope it's as enjoyable to you as it is to me.