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Today I am without wife and child.  My responsibilities have boiled down to painting a door and vacuuming.

So I did something that I’ve been meaning to do ever since I got my new camera.

Actually…since my wife and I took a “shortcut” about two years back.

Much like anyone who is absolutely new to an area, we stuck to the major roads in town major highways when travelling to the cities.  For going to and from Madison and Chicago, this was more or less ideal.  Milwaukee was a bit cumbersome though.  To get to Milwaukee, you either headed up to Madison and over or down to Beloit and then over.  Either way there was a sense of wasted motion, of extra expenditure.

Then one day, my wife’s sister who happened to live in Milwaukee came to see us.  This was fairly early on, so most everyone was printing out Google Maps to get to or from our house.  It just so happened that Google diverted my sister-in-law off the major highway much earlier than we had been going.  Instead, it took her on some state highways, shaving off more than a few miles and more than a few minutes off her trip.

So one day after that, my wife & I remembered that little trip tip while planning an excursion to the Milwaukee airport.

It was then that I was introduced to some of the more stunning rolling landscapes that the Wisconsin farmlands had to offer.

And I wanted to get a picture.  A good one.

And now I have a digital SLR and a decent lens.  So this is my first attempt at trying to capture the landscapes of Wisconsin.