What is there to photograph in Missouri? I have a couple of weeks off and want to photograph some really pretty scenic views. I have lived in MO since 1992 and haven't come across any...

jim quist Loc: Missouri

I have a couple of weeks off and want to photograph some really pretty scenic views. I have lived in MO since 1992 and haven't come across any place I would want to spend a couple of days just photographing nature. Any great spots out there?

Shellback Loc: North of Cheyenne Bottoms Wetlands - Kansas

Go to Branson and Table Rock lake - beautiful area...

http://www.branson.com/learn/branson-lakes/table-rock-lake/

Leitz Loc: Solms

jim quist wrote:

I have a couple of weeks off and want to photograph some really pretty scenic views. I have lived in MO since 1992 and haven't come across any place I would want to spend a couple of days just photographing nature. Any great spots out there?

I once read that there's a river there someplace. No matter where in the world, unless you're stuck in the middle of a city, if you cannot find any place to photograph nature, nature photography is not for you!

Cdouthitt Loc: Traverse City, MI

ozarks

http://www.google.com/search?q=ozarks&espv=2&biw=1497&bih=866&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pp-JVdTVMIy7ogTGjKaICQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&dpr=2.5

caverns

http://www.google.com/search?q=ozarks&espv=2&biw=1497&bih=866&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pp-JVdTVMIy7ogTGjKaICQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&dpr=2.5&gws_rd=ssl#tbm=isch&q=missouri+caverns

jim quist Loc: Missouri

Leitz wrote:

I once read that there's a river there someplace. No matter where in the world, unless you're stuck in the middle of a city, if you cannot find any place to photograph nature, nature photography is not for you!

I hear you. We have a forest behind our house. I generally take a macro lens or a bellows and and can spend hours with insects, snowflakes, flowers, rocks, etc. I would like to just go to some beautiful scenic spots and try something a little different. I think this time just to enjoy nature and get some shots along the way.

jim quist Loc: Missouri

Cdouthitt wrote:

ozarks

http://www.google.com/search?q=ozarks&espv=2&biw=1497&bih=866&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pp-JVdTVMIy7ogTGjKaICQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&dpr=2.5

caverns

http://www.google.com/search?q=ozarks&espv=2&biw=1497&bih=866&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=pp-JVdTVMIy7ogTGjKaICQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&dpr=2.5&gws_rd=ssl#tbm=isch&q=missouri+caverns

Thank you. Looks like just what the Dr ordered.

SharpShooter Loc: NorCal

jim quist wrote:

I have a couple of weeks off and want to photograph some really pretty scenic views. I have lived in MO since 1992 and haven't come across any place I would want to spend a couple of days just photographing nature. Any great spots out there?

Jim, as long as you have a couple of weeks, why don't you just have the Doctor order you to go to Yosemite?!?!
I'm pretty sure you could find something to shoot in Yosemite!!!! :lol:
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Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

jim quist wrote:

I have a couple of weeks off and want to photograph some really pretty scenic views. I have lived in MO since 1992 and haven't come across any place I would want to spend a couple of days just photographing nature. Any great spots out there?

I have lived in Missouri all my life, mostly within 100mile radius of St.Louis, been into photography since 1955 and have always been able to find something interesting to photograph. While the Grand Vistas of the west aren't available there are all kinds of scenes, Maybe your eyes are too busy looking for grandeur to see the beauty in simplicity.
Try Elephant Rock state park, Johnsons Shut-ins ( in the same area}, Lon Sanders Canyon, Castor River shut-ins it goes on and on.

greg vescuso Loc: Ozark,Mo.

You could always go around the state to all the old grist mills. Look up Alley mill and Hodgeson mill to name a couple.

exakta56 Loc: Orford,New Hampshire

Get on state highway 63 south of Jefferson City and wander south. Plenty of side roads to explore. Ozark streams: Jack's Fork, Eleven Point. Like little old German villages? Vienna, Herman, Westphalia, Dutzow. Caverns? Onandaga Caverns off of I-44 near Rolla. Onyx Mountain.
Unless you enjoy traffic jams and way too many people, avoid Branson, Lake of the Ozarks, I-70 corridor and lack-luster Merramec Caverns.

R.J. Loc: Overland Park, KS

Alley Mill and Springs near Eminence; Bollinger Mill and Covered Bridge, Burfordville; the Mississippi river, the new bridge, and Old Town in Cape Girardeau; Maramec Springs near St. James; the lookout over the Mississippi river at Trail of Tears State Park near Jackson; Lookout at Weston Bend State Park near Weston and the town of Weston; Botanical garden in St.Louis; Missouri river and Old Town in St. Charles; Audubon Center in West Alton; The Great River Road north of Alton, Il.

banjonut Loc: Southern Michigan

Parts of old Route 66. Merimec Caverns.

auntmary Loc: Olathe Kansas

Squawk Creek National Wildlife Refuge near Mound City in the NW corner of the state

Wanderer2 Loc: Colorado Rocky Mountains

I would also endorse the Ozarks but would suggest crossing the state border and photographing in the Arkansas Ozarks in addition to Missouri. I've found that area even more appealing photographically than the Missouri mountains, actually hills by Idaho standards but still beautiful. :o).
Although not nature photography, the old town section of Eureka Springs is very interesting. And I thought San Francisco was hilly!!

You didn't mention what season you will be going but the fall color in the Ozarks can be beautiful, although I assume it varies somewhat from year to year. The one year I was there in fall it wasn't far behind New England or the Rocky Mountains in beautiful autumn foliage.

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The Kaskaskia Bell State Memorial is a 1948 brick building in Kaskaskia, Illinois that houses a bell cast in 1741 by King Louis XV of France as a gift to the Mission of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church at Kaskaskia. Wikipedia

Kaskaskia is actually in Missouri. The river cut through the town many years ago.