The badlands stretch for 4000 miles on Kraken Tor,you need a good map for treking though this,even then!!! / Legend as it there’s a City of the Ancients somewhere out there,some have looked / and some even came back. / Its a forbidding place at any time. Excerpt from Chapter 63 of the “Travels of Zorind Rakkmnn”.
The Badlands of South Dakota is a strange and mysterious place…..somewhat like a moonscape. I took this shot this fall on a warm “indian Summer” Day just a few weeks ago.
After a day spent on the road we were heading home when we came upon this doe lit up by the full moon. She stood there for a second and then she was gone.
Precious rain leaves its bounty for desert wildlife. Joshua Tree National Park, California. Taken on the East side of the Geology Road, 2008.
Taken in the Badlands of South Dakota. What a sight it must have been for early travelers to come upon this site. To think…the Sioux knew it was there all along and also knew how to survive here. / / Please View Larger / /
There’s always another sunset to capture or fabricate.
The Badlands of South Dakota
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Such a stunning place.
Named “mako sica” (Badlands ) by the Lakota, the South Dakota Badlands were a Native American hunting grounds for thousands of years. Containing one of the richest fossil beds in the world, the The Badlands National Park of South Dakota is now home to bison, pronghorn, mule and whitetail deer, prairie dogs, coyotes, butterflies, turtles, snakes, bluebirds, vultures, eagles, hawks and the black-footed ferret…..Sense of Place…you’ll find it around every corner… I have applied an Orton technique to this image. No matter what you do to images from this area, they always seem to come out breathtaking….. Badlands National Park of South Dakota, USA / Nikon F4 / Featured in “National Parks of the World”
Early morning I climbed up Masada, and on my way down it I had enough light to take that picture. I just love the curves of the badlands in Judea desert in Israel. The picture was taken on May 2005
This dry clay wash was found in Badlands National Park in South Dakota, USA. I was absolutely fascinated with the abstract quality of the dry clay in a stream bed at the foot of fossil filled hoodoos. / Featured at “Textures” – January 25, 2009.
Watercolour on 140 lb. Arches.
Lake Mungo Dunes, South Western NSW Australia – dawning
Golden Canyon at sunrise in Death Valley National Park, California. Featured in the Mountains and Mountain Light group.
The Bisti is a 45,000 acre National Wilderness that is an ancient seabed and is now full of hoodoos, striated rock formations, petrified wood and dinosaur bones, and other examples of tortured geography of the most surreal sort. The Bisti is located in Northwest New Mexico, near the Four Corners town of Farmington. On this occasion, six of us hiked in to the Bisti just before sundown, on the night of the full moon. We packed in a scant two miles, but the undulating and unforgiving landscape (and the frequent photo breaks) made it seem much further. Along the way, we encountered another group of Bisti chroniclers led by Carole Devillers, frequent contributor to National Geographic magazine and one-time guide for Jacques Cousteau. Pentax K20D, 1/3 second @ F5.6, ISO 200, 160mm Using a Scott Kelby technique, I shot the moon separately. Then, in Paint Shop Pro XII, I copied an adjustment layer and converted that to B&W and then to infrared. Then I reduced the opacity to let in a little color from the bottom layer. Pentax K20D, 1/250 @ F8, ISO 200, 300mm.
Zabriskie Point is a section of Death Valley National Park (in the United States) noted for its erosional landscape. The terrain is referred to as badlands because it is very difficult to grow plants there. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago — long before Death Valley came into existence.
The Bad Lands in South Dakota have great meaning for the Sioux Nation. Legend has it that the great brave ‘Crazy Horse” and many other Native Americans hid among the canions from the persuing white soldiers. The Bad Lands is an amazing place to visit and i hope one day to return to visit again. Layer one… BadLands South Dakota / Layer 2… Cheif statuette for your information: BadLands more Wall
The Badlands have been photographed millions of times and in so many different ways. The awe they inspire is endless I guess. Having lived in South Dakota my whole life, I have gone through this part of the country several times and it always looks different. I was struck by the thought of how early pioneers, using primitive tools like the implement in this image, tried to “own” this land—they tilled the prairies and built roads through the Badlands. We erected fences and designated “reservations” and hunted the game. Yet in the end, it belongs still to those who were there first. The buffalo, the antelope, the native Americans. And in spirit—if not in actuality, they will go on owning it after the prairie and the sun and time absorb the tools and machines we have invented to ravish it.
The Badlands, South Dakota.
Rustic in South Dakota Badlands area
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