Emerging from Early Morning Fog

Today’s post features a well-known landscape along Minnesota’s North Shore … the Split Rock Lighthouse. While touring the North Shore area a few years ago, I was able to photograph the lighthouse at sunrise. After a few minutes of shooting, the view got much more interesting as fog slowly rose along the cliff walls and […]

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Patterns in the Soil

Today’s post features a couple of images I captured in Yellowstone NP (Wyoming) a few years ago. While hiking around the geyser area, these intriguing patterns caught my attention: Canon 1D Mark 3 camera body + Canon 28-135mm, f/3.5-f/5.6 IS lens, shot at 44mm to 47mm Handheld, with IS “On” ISO 200 Aperture f/22 Shutter […]

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A View From the Bluffs

Today’s post features a couple of images I captured last week while hiking at Ha Ha Tonka State Park, in the Missouri Ozarks. Hiking along the bluffs, I ran across a couple of views that showed not only the changing fall colors, but the Niangua arm of the Lake of the Ozarks: Coming up … […]

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Moving Into Night – Badlands

Today’s post features the magnificent nighttime skies that are prevalent over the Badlands of South Dakota. Immediately after the sun began setting, I moved to another location and captured the transitioning skies: Sunset begins, over the Badlands: As the sun sets, the clouds above took on the hues of the sunset: A short time later, […]

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Colorful Badlands Sunset

Today’s post features a couple of sunset images as the sun dropped towards the western horizon, over the Badlands NP of South Dakota.  I have never seen a “bad” sunset here … ok, if it is really cloudy it might not be good sunset material.  But typically, I can always count on some really nice […]

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Visiting the Badlands

Just back from an exciting week of travel. One of the highlights of the trip was a 3-day stop in the Badlands NP (South Dakota). I will be posting several blog posts featuring this incredible place … today’s post features a look at some of the landscapes withing the park: Coming up … some of […]

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