Category Archives: Landscapes
Looking Up
Friends, in my heart i am always in the badlands, when i can’t sleep at night, i count the erosion patterns that run down the slopes into the Little Missouri River. Guess that is why this image appeals to me and why i am sitting low and looking up. For my friend, kirk and his family, keep looking up. In the journey ahead keep looking up, til Tomorrow MJ
Storm on the Horizon
Friends,his storm was photographed in May when the girls and i visited the Theodore Roosevelt National Park. We are heading there again on Sunday to sit among the hoodoos and maybe a hike into the petrified forest. Hot weather is predicted so maybe we will have a rest and relaxation with photo runs at sunrise and sunset. til Tomorrow MJ
Turn Around
Friends, this is a picture of my friend at sunset, she is also shooting the sunset. We girls went to the badlands in the last week of May and had a glorious trip. When in the North Dakota Badlands you can often have the whole hillside to yourself. I shouted at her to turn around to see what was happening behind her, 🙂 til Tomorrow MJ
Help! Sunset Six
Friends, yes, this is six versions of the same photo, a storm coming over the hill at sunset. I am trying to decide which of these is the best. Maybe you can help. Which of these versions do you like and if you care to share your reasons, I would greatly appreciate. thanks til Tomorrow MJ
Practical HDR or natural high dynamic range
Friends, we have all seen the garish images created with high dynamic range tool in photoshop, but here is a real life situation where this tool was necessary to achieve my goals. The water is high key and has some details and the rocks are very dark but contain some details and i wanted to retain both sets of details in the same image. Enter high dynamic range tool. First of all one needs to plan ahead while in the field, and shoot three exposures of this scene. One exposure is 1 stop over-exposed and one shot in under- exposed 1 stop, and a third image is shot with exposure compensation at zero. So three exposures, bracketed around zero by 1-2 stops. Now to photoshop where the three images are combined with the HDR tool. Now the image has retained details in both the water and the rocks in a single image. til Tomorrow MJ
Wild Horses on a Spring Morning
Friends, these wild horses are high on a bluff letting the wind blow away the bothersome flies. A storm is brewing behind as a huge thunderhead billows into the sky. But for now, the sun is shining, the grass is green and the breeze is cool. til Tomorrow MJ
Horse Day
Friends, we went out in the middle of the day to see what we could see. The wild horses of TRNP were abundant and standing on the road, stopping traffic as they often do. The sky was blue and filled with the puffy clouds of summer, temperature in the low 80s and a perfect day in the North Dakota badlands. til Tomorrow MJ
Weekly Photo Challenge:Between
Friends, this sunrise in the badlands is between night and morning, that morning glow that sets the mood for the day, the evening showers have passed on and the sun is shining over the horizon, this is a special moment in the day, one of awakening and meditation on things to come til Tomorrow MJ
From the Top
Friends, thia is the view from the top of wind canyon looking north from the hiking trail. These large blocks of sandstone have fallen from the hill and some have been so eroded by wind and rain that they have holes all the way through their bulk. The banks rise above the Little Missouri River sometimes called locally the Little Muddy or Little Misery, depending on your mood for the day. The day that we visited, the sky was beautiful with cumulus clouds dominating this scene. til Tomorrow MJ
Wind Canyon
Friends, going through the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, we come to a small parking lot near the north end of the road. The sign says Wind Canyon and a short trail leads you to the top of the canyon where you can see carved figures of sandstone below you, like this golden man standing on a pedestal. A gigantic tree is growing from the bottom of the canyon, but a warning, the trail to the canyon bottom is wicked. You can slide on the sandstone to the bottom, but coming back up, you not only fight gravity but sandstone is so smooth that getting any purchase on the rock is difficult. til Tomorrow MJ
MJ Springett 