Ghost Car
What’s your Google+ ID? I’ve really been enjoying Google+ since the beta version came out. It is like the best of flickr, facebook and twitter all in one easy to use format. I have to say I like it better than all the other social media networking platforms and it is especially great for photographers. [...]
Badlands Yellow Mounds
When the black hills were formed in South Dakota the ancient sea drained away. Once exposed to air, the black ocean mud was weathered into a yellow soil known as the yellow mounds. Tropical plants began to grow. Today many fossils are found in the yellow mounds. I took these shots on a somewhat cloudy [...]
Timeless but Ever Changing
The badlands have a way of making a person feel small within its vastness and ancient history. You think back to prehistoric times when dinosaurs, saber-toothed cats and miniature camels and horses roamed here. The buttes themselves feel timeless. The landscape changes suddenly from an “ocean of prairie” to its sharp buttes. It changes constantly, [...]
Buttes and Spires in Badlands National Park
Badlands National Park is a desolate landscape of buttes and spires carved by centuries of prairie winds and rain. It is located on the edge of the Great Plains grasslands, home of the Ingalls homestead from Little House on the Prairie. From the top of the spires looking out on the landscape, it is hard [...]
Wet Landscapes and Saturated Colour
We arrived at our campsite in Interior, South Dakota. It looked great on the website, but when we got there we found it was really run down. You could tell it used to be a nice place, but it was not maintained, they failed the water testing and had to chlorinate the water, and standing [...]
The Happy-Dancing Badlands Bison
Once upon a time, in Badlands National Park in South Dakota, there was a bad-ass bison. He was the largest bison in the herd and had a reputation for being, well, a bad-ass. But he was much more than a bad-ass. Sometimes, when he saw a funny looking person staring at him, he would show [...]
Baby Bears!
Awww, baby bears! Who can resist a baby bear? Not me. And there are not very many opportunities to observe baby bears frolicking about. So when I saw the billboard and got a personal recommendation from a fellow camper, I just had to go visit Bear Country in South Dakota. I remembered when I was [...]
Where the Deer and the Antelope Play
Where do the deer and the antelope play? Also in South Dakota! Although my first glimpse of these creatures (which I suspected were antelope, but I had to look it up) was in Montana. After not seeing much wildlife at all at Glacier National Park, we spent the next night at a truck stop where [...]
Where the Buffalo Roam
Where do the buffalo roam? In South Dakota! I let out a huge gasp when I saw the first one, a giant of a beast, as we rounded the corner to Custer State Park. Little did I know how many more were to come. Of course I had on my telephoto lens at first thinking [...]
