The Falls of the Ohio State Park in Indiana is one of my favorite places to go on photo adventures. Not only are there fossil beds to explore but there's also plenty of other sights to take in from there (plus there's an ice cream parlor nearby). There's bridges, critters aplenty, and of course the Ohio River.
My pandemic partner and I went on our first photo adventure together here, last December. All these photos are from that jaunt. I don't recall which direction these geese were headed but they seemed to be in a hurry.
Along the river's edge there were plenty of fossils in the making...I want to know how long it will take that basketball in the bottom left to turn into a fossil. Fortunately there were plenty of fossils that had had enough time to season properly.
See? Fossils! Some of these I'd seen before, here and elsewhere but never realized were fossils. A park ranger came out and told us more about them and pointed out ones we'd overlooked. It was rather neat, I'd been there plenty of times before but never learned as much as I did in this one adventure.
I would have overlooked this second one as some sort of weird, weathered old concrete if the ranger hadn't pointed it out to us. The park is in a bend of the Ohio River, near its namesake falls. It offers an interesting mix of being quite close to the city and civilization while also feeling like you're out in the boonies.
The bridges make for fun shots to contrast with both the nature and the city skyline. Looking at these photos has got me pining to go back so I think me and my pandemic partner shall go on another adventure there soon :)
Until next time, y'all be safe out there and don't do anything I wouldn't do!