Deep dusk

Deep dusk. Badlands National Park July 23, 2009. 75 megapixel Stitch from 9 shots from Nikon D300, 18-55mmf/3.5-5.6 at 35mm, f/16, 3.0s.

I ran across this possible shot going through old pictures in Lightroom just recently. This was taken at dusk in Badlands National Park in South Dakota, a truly remarkable place. Strangely, I had never stitched these images together. The badlands take on amazing colors at sunrise/sunset and are sometimes even more deeply colored at dusk. Hope you enjoy this image.

Badlands sunset

Badlands National Park. Buy a print.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 at 46 mm, f/9.0, 1/1000s, ISO 100/

An image where you don't need enormous resolution. Made from the parkinglot of the little restaurant there a few years ago. This is a new interpretation of the image here using Lightroom 4 beta. I really like the way it handles the highlights.

South Dakota's Badlands

I already had this as my "featured gallery" for a while. We visited Badlands National Park in South Dakota. This is an absolutely fantastic place well worth a visit. After having dinner at the surprisingly better than mediocre restaurant next to the big visitor's center, we saw the sunset.

Somewhat further along, I took several high resolution landscapes:

(for a gorgeous sepia version, click here). This image will print at many feet high. The max my printing service offers is 30x40, but at that size it will still retain impeccable detail.

A slightly different composition:

After the sun had already set I created some dusk images. The following is one of them.

This is again very high res that will print gorgeously at the very largest sizes I offer.

You can see the entire gallery of images here.