Well not actually cabbage, but similar. Still playing with the light and close-up of leaves in Spearfish Canyon.
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The Overseer
Shot literally feet from an earlier post in Spearfish Canyon, this composition features the same foliage but the little flower at the top seems to be overseeing the chaos of the surrounding leaves. A challenge in this image was balancing lights and darks to keep the flower from blowing while still maintaining enough light in the shadows so detail in the leaves stood out.
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Night Trucker
After shooting the milky way and the landscape, I patiently waited for a car to pass by in order to capture some retreating tail light. Instead, (and surprisingly) an eighteen wheeler rumbled by. Even better!
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Lost in a Crowd
One of the most challenging things for me when it comes to capturing close ups of wild plans and flowers is identifying a subject that brings together a subject that brings together various photographic elements that makes the image interesting and pleasing to the eye.
For me the star of the show is the smaller leaf in the center. It has a more vibrant yellow color and is nicely framed by the twig coming in from the right. The larger leaves seem to be milling about randomly while giving the little guy some space.
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Ancient One
This massive cotton wood tree is long since dead, but when it saw a lot of ancient history when it was alive and growing.
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Sunrise on Amber waves
The winter wheat in central Nebraska, not far from the town of St. Paul is looking pretty good.
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Still Waiting on Spring
This image was made in the middle of May of this year at the Roughlock Falls picnic area in Spearfish Canyon, South Dakota and except for a little green grass and a few leaf buds, you’d never guess we were a month into spring.
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Spring Time at Roughlock Falls
This is my third in a series of images I’ve taken in the exact spot at Upper Roughlock Fall in Speadrfish Canyon to capture the seasons of the year. Here I wanted to depict the early spring foliage emerging after a long cold winter. You can see the other photos in this series here
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Badlands Mirage
I was watching the sunrise the other morning from our guest bedroom window and just before the sun broke the horizon I could see what looked like the badlands. Impossible, I thought, since the badlands are 90 miles away as the crow flies. It must be some kind of weird cloud or fog formation, so I took this picture and did a little research. Now I’m not so sure.
WARNING NERD ALERT!
There is a phenomenon known as refraction that bends light rays similar to what happens when light passes through a prism, allowing the us to see the other side of the horizon. It depends on getting the right atmospheric conditions and the angle of the sun relative to the observer.
What do you think? anybody else ever have a similar experience?
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Northern Light Show
When the public found out about the near certainty of an Aurora the other night you almost needed a reservation to get a shooting spot at Bear Butte State Park. I fired off about 70 shots trying to get a clean image without all the head and tail lights in the background, but this was the best and cleanest I could manage. I put myself in the photo to add some interest.
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Touching Winter
I’m not sure if this is one tree or several trees sprouting from the same location. Regardless, I love the way the thick trunks gradually split and divide into smaller branches and stems until there is nothing left but the delicate bare twigs that seem to reach out and touch the cold winter sky.
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Snowy Canyon
Another image from a snowy Spearfish Canyon a few weeks ago. I have to give a shout out to the snowplow driver that morning, so if you see this; sorry for being a pain in the asteroids and thanks for slowing down and not blowing me over the edge of the canyon.
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Erosion on Steriods
One phenomenon on full display at Badlands National Park is the effect of soil erosion on the landscape. I made this image at golden hour while I was killing time waiting for it to get dark so that I could shoot the milky way panorama featured in my last post.
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Golden hour at the Badlands
Spring Snow
In the Black Hills I have a saying: “When the calendar says spring, that only means winter is half over” and this mid-April snow storm makes the point.
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A Long Night
I spent about 10 hours in Badlands National Park recently scouting a location, shooting a blue hour landscape pano then waiting for the milky way core to rise so that I could shoot another pano of the milky way arch. I finished around 3am and got home around 5am, just in time for breakfast!
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Before the Night
This image was captured as the sun was going down and It’s of the same farmstead, but from a slightly different angle. The snow had just stopped and bitter cold was settling in.
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Warm Place on a Cold Night
Moonlight brightens the snowy plains and hills as twilight settles in over the landscape on a bitterly cold evening in the South Dakota Black Hills, and at the base of the hills, nestled in the pines is this secluded farmstead. The yard light casts an orange/yellow glow on the structures and surrounding farm yard providing a warm oasis on a frosty night.
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Moonscape
I’m starting to get into the habit of photographing this scene in various weather conditions and times of the day (and night). A 30% waxing gibbous moon almost makes it seem like daytime and only the stars let you know that it’s long past sunset. Besides the moon, the other bright object just above the horizon is Jupiter setting in the west. The reddish color cast in the pine trees is the result of using my hydrogen alpha modified Cannon 5D III. This is a six shot vertical panorama at 24mm focal length.
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Sunset in Spearfish Canyon
Looking south in Spearfish Canyon in the South Dakota Black Hills, the low clouds and cliff faces catch the last light of the setting sun on a cold winter evening.
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Looking for a Perfect Sunset
I’ve been to this spot on Little Spearfish Creek many times looking for a dramatic sunset, but haven’t come away with the photo I’m imagining. On this evening I was ready to pack it in when a flock of geese landed not far away (look closely in the center right of the frame) and I thought it would make a cool shot if they would just swim a little closer. It wasn’t to be as it started getting dark and the geese were staying put, but I did get this image at almost twilight that I’m reasonably happy with.
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