Photos from Middle Fork

I made this post originally to try out a gallery feature I was implementing for this website. Coincidentally, I started working on right after I came back from the Middle Fork River Forest Preserve . For some context, Middle Fork is a sectioned out zone in the middle of Illinois (it literally is surrounded on all 4 sides by farm land) that serves as a nature preserve. It also is Illinois’ only international dark sky park as of 2025. I’ve wanted to come for a while to take pictures of the stars or milky way, but I never really found the time. Now, on the last few days of spring break, I decided it was worth a trip.

Like I mentioned, my original intention was to ensure my gallery feature was working. I can now safely say (sort of) that this feature works as intended. Here is a gallery of images I took while I was at Middle Fork:

(Just a note, you can even click on the images to see them better or for their caption. Or you could just hover over one to see it’s caption, if it has one.)

Here, I want to test out a non-gallery image that can also open up a pop up. Here is one I like (even though its blurry cause I couldn’t hold my camera still enough for the 8 second exposure):

I have more photos on my actual camera. All of the photos above were taken with a Samsung S24+. When I have time (or if I remember), I’ll upload some of the photos from my camera to here.