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With this image, I zoomed in on the focal length to have more of Devils Tower (Bear Lodge) that I captured be in the mirror and minimize the area behind.

This image was captured while walking the Red Beds Trail in Devils Tower National Monument with a view looking to the northwest.

From an unnamed roadside pulloff along the main road in Wind Cave National Park. After parking in the nearby lot, I followed a walking path to the southeast. I then found this spot with an overlook across a field of prairie grasses that stretched across this plateau to Beaver Creek, near a drop-off with the Ponderosa Pines off in the distance.

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.

As I drove along Wyoming Highway 24, I'd see off and on views of this famous butte. Needless to say, it was hard not to just stop and capture another image, but I wanted to get to the national monument to explore and walk around. Here I stopped next to some farmland and used that and the surrounding hills to add this pedestal or base like setting to it. I finished up post-processing work in Capture NX2 by adding a few CEP filters (Low Key, Polarization and Graduated Neutral Density) and some minimal cloning out of farm equipment for the final image.

A parking lot view that pretty much anyone stopping at this national monument couldn't help but be drawn in! And even though I'd seen similar images captured from other photographers before heading up to the Dakotas and Wyoming, it's hard not to just stand and absorb the view with this butte that seemingly rises to the skies above. So using the nearby trees, I tried to compliment that look upward and use the blues of the skies above as a color compliment for the final image.

After doing some initial work in Capture NX2 for saturation, brightness, and contrast, I performed a conversion to black & white where I then used some color filters to bring out a much richer tonal contrast for the final image.

After doing some initial work in Capture NX2 for saturation, brightness, and contrast, I performed a conversion to black & white where I then used some color filters to bring out a much richer tonal contrast for the final image. In some ways, the slight variation in the blues of the sky helped to highlight that one lone tree with the tones present than when I composed it in color.

With the use of a Polarization CEP filter in Capture NX2, I felt I was able to have that better highlight the feel of clouds seemingly floating on by...

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.

This was more of a mid-focal length type image I wanted to capture with a view to the southeast across the varying terrain in the North Unit of this national park. My thinking was to angle my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward, capturing more of a sweeping view that would slowly lead the eye to the Little Missouri River with the high riverbanks and blue skies off in the distance. I finished up post-processing work in Capture NX2 by adding a few CEP filters (Low Key, Polarization and Graduated Neutral Density) for the final image.

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 looking to the south where the folds across the earth with the hillsides just had that feel of varying terrain that drew me into this setting. I decided angle my SLR camera slightly downward and capture, or rather bring out, more depth in this view from the slight vantage point I had along the hiking trail.

A view looking to the southeast while at River Bend Overlook one "early" morning in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Using the shadows present and the slight variations in hue across this landscape, I worked with color filters in Capture NX2 and made an image conversion to black & white. I found making those adjustments brought out a richer tonal contrast that best complemented it for a final image.

A view looking to the northeast while walking along the Buck Hill Trail. With this downward angle, I wanted to capture that feeling of looking across the prairie grasses blowing with each passing breeze. I later 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.

From an overlook with a view looking to the southeast while parked at the Lookout Point Trailhead. I angled my Nikon SLR camera slightly downward, so I could capture more of a sweeping view across this landscape in Wind Cave National Park.

An idea for an image I got while researching from other photographers on places to visit and hike while at Devils Tower National Monument. This was a roadside stop on my way to walk the Joyner Ridge Trail just up the road and a view looking to the southeast.