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Up In Smoke – Badlands Sunrise

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When you visit the west in the late summer or early fall, there’s a good chance you’ll run into some smoke from wildfires…it’s just been a common thing over the last few years.  On this morning in August in Badlands National Park, the sunrise was dramatically diffused by the hazy smoke.  Sunsets too would end … Read more

Badlands Morning Hike

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I have made 3 or 4 trips now to Badlands National Park in South Dakota and while there’s no question, you can see some amazing things from driving through there, the truth is the real beauty lies in getting out of the car and walking, exploring, and discovering formations that you could never see well from the road.

I have shot most of the iconic spots, Ancient Hunter’s Overlook, Panorama Point, or Cedar Pass…and have enjoyed them all, and will likely stop at all of them again down the road, but the greatest appeal for me now is to simply see what else is out there.  

This image was a result of walking a bit.  Not terribly far, but as you traverse the ridges and mounds, you come to find views like this.  It shows the beautiful etched lines in the mud where water has cut into it…and the striations of color in the land is something to behold…they get particularly colorful when the ground is wet from rains…although I’d suggest not going out too far following rain or snow melt…you’ll bring a lot of the land back with you in the form of mud caked to your shoes.

Moon Walk – Badlands National Park

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Badlands National Park is a terrific place to take the family.  During the summer months it’s pretty busy but certainly not anything compared to a place like Yellowstone.  That park simply get’s overloaded with tourists.  The Badlands in comparison, is a retreat. The scenic overlooks are quite spectacular, as are the various peaks and formations.  … Read more