Looking across the prairie at some of the unique rock formations in the South Dakota Badlands. This National Park is roughly 244,000 acres and has variety of sensational landscapes and remarkable scenic views. Mobile photo.
This page simply reformats the Flickr public Atom feed for purposes of finding inspiration through random exploration. These images are not being copied or stored in any way by this website, nor are any links to them or any metadata about them. All images are © their owners unless otherwise specified.
This site is a busybee project and is supported by the generosity of viewers like you.
Looking across the prairie at some of the unique rock formations in the South Dakota Badlands. This National Park is roughly 244,000 acres and has variety of sensational landscapes and remarkable scenic views. Mobile photo.
Another mobile photo taken at Badlands National Park in South Dakota, showing a remarkable landscape with visible layers in the unique rock formations. This vast, otherworldly National Park is roughly 244,000 acres and has variety of sensational landscapes and remarkable scenic views.
Well, not really, but it looks like it almost could be. This is actually a mobile photo taken at the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. This vast, otherworldly National Park is roughly 244,000 acres and has variety of sensational landscapes and remarkable scenic views.
when you want to stop almost everywhere!
Bighorn sheep in Badlands NP
Longing...nowadays we cannot take our travels for granted anymore, but I can step back in time with these series of (holiday) photo's.
Two days in this magnificent area are way to short!
Longing...nowadays we cannot take our travels for granted anymore, but I can step back in time with these series of (holiday) photo's.
For this image, I found a point nearby to focus while closing down the aperture on my Nikon SLR camera to capture this view at a stop named Slump Block Pullout. Composing this image was then just a matter of getting down (after walking a few steps back) near some taller grasses. I let the formations then fill the remaining portion of the image with a little bit of blue skies above. My thinking was that slight upward angle and sliver of skies would add a sense of depth for the final image processed.
A view looking to the northeast at Badlands Overlook. With this image, I decided to make a conversion to black & white in Capture NX2 with some adjustments to color filters to bring out a more richer tonal contrast for the final image.
After soaking in the amazing views from the main overlook at this point with the Little Missouri River, I decided to wander around and follow the trail that led slightly North. It was here that I encountered what looked to be more badlands type formations, including the layers upon layers of rock formed over the ages. What I really liked in addition to that view was the prairie grasses that were atop them and obvious to see as I looked further into the national park. Angling my Nikon SLR camera I felt brought out a better sense of depth as one might slowly look across this national park landscape.
After doing some initial work in Capture NX2 for saturation, brightness, contrast and cropping, I performed a conversion in Silver Efex Pro 2 to black & white where I then used some color filters to bring out a much richer tonal contrast for the final image.
A view to the southeast while walking the vantage points along the Buck Hill Trail. This area is in Painted Canyon to the north of the hiking trail I'd walked the day prior.
While I hadn't hiked in that exact part of the national park the day prior, it was interesting seeing the views from another direction. And yes, far off in the distance is Interstate 94 and some teeny tiny cars and trucks driving by.
This is a view looking to the southwest at Boicourt Overlook. Far off in the distance are Square Butte, Sentinel Butte, Camels Hump Butte, West & East Twin Buttes (or at least, that's what an information sign pointed out).
A zoomed in image to this one bison where I was able to use some badlands formations as a backdrop while it grazed on some prairie grasses in this part of the national park.
From a slight rise along a trail with a view to the southeast while walking in Theodore Roosevelt National Park (South Unit). What I was attempting to capture was the varying terrain that I saw from this point. In some areas, I could see the eroded buttes of badlands, while other areas had prairie grasses. Then in other low ground areas were evergreen type trees. The blue skies above were that color contrast that seemed to complement the setting for the final image. I also felt angling my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward brought out a better perspective and depth to take in the view.