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I've never been able to get a satisfactory image of this little prairie wildflower. They bounce around in the slightest of breezes. Today, it was totally still on the Holland Sand Prairie.
The textures and colors of the prairie grasses in this part of the country are particularly interesting this time of year.
This is a view I have photographed often but have never posted. It seems I just can't do it justice.
On this day the formations in the distance were highlighted by the clouds which perhaps helped to balance the view.
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
Gather round the grain elevator, I have a country story to tell. One could travel up and down the back roads of rural Saskatchewan for a full year, and still you'd never discover everything you wanted, through each distinct seasons flavor from dry hot summer afternoons to full blast winter storms.
Yet whenever you spot a weather beaten wooden grain elevator dotting a horizon, you sense you're stepping towards the Heart of another rural community, where the harvest brought community closer and grain was stored for movement via railway cars.
If you look towards the enveloping Saskatchewan sky, it will often tell what you need to know!
"I found myself between two places,
Neither of them home.
I could not recognize the faces,
I've never felt so alone,
So alone"
{Mary Chapin Carpenter, The Age of Miracles}
*From a previous image 'Knead Path' you'll spot these elevators on the distant left horizon.
**Textures courtesy of Ellenvd
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Sussex Prairie is open for just the month of August but the colours are always a spectacular backdrop for my bee images.
Top of prairie grass along the shore of the Fox River at Mitchell Park Trail in Brookfield, WI.
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This another shot of the old prairie granaries that so often dot the farming landscape across the prairies. As with the first image here this was taken during terrible weather conditions a couple of days ago on the drive to Drumheller from Calgary.
This shot was taken at the end of a very long day. I started out photographing grain elevators at dawn and then drove all day (about 12 hours) visiting 6 sites on the way (ghost towns, grain elevators and churches). About an hour from my destination for the night, this fantastic storm came up. I detoured to photograph two grain elevators that I had meant to shoot the next day, but neither of them gave me quite the right composition and the rain was starting to come down really hard (making long exposure photography pretty much impossible) so I just headed for the hotel. Then, I saw these clouds and I all I needed was something in the foreground, so I screeched to a halt in the pouring rain in front of these small silos and grabbed a couple of handheld shots before the skies opened.
In July 2013 I flew to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, rented a car and drove 2,400 kilometres over the next 6 days via Prince Albert, Kindersley and Calgary to visit and photograph old, unused grain elevators and churches. If you'd like, you can take a look at more images from my Prairie adventure.
What appears to be a large prairie is actually the Gulf of Alaska reflecting the warm light of the sunrise. A two frame pano.
This Prairie Warbler was at Mile Square Regional Park, in Fountain Valley (Orange County), CA, 26 September, 2017 (originally found here on 25 Sept., 2017, by Jim Pike). This species is known as a breeder typically in second-growth, scrubby habitats throughout much of the eastern U.S., although it is a very rare visitor (primarily as a fall migrant) to California. It is one of the many "eastern" North American warblers known to occasionally wander significantly out of range, to the western U.S.; these are often referred to as "vagrants" by birders. Even though a rarity anywhere in the West, over the years Orange County seems to have gotten fewer records of Prairie Warblers than most other So Cal counties.
Przhevalsky's horses in the Orenburg Nature Reserve live in small harem or bachelor groups. But sometimes, groups unite into one big herd
One of our beautiful native wildflowers. Part of the blackland prairie at White Rock lake. Pollinators love it, especially bumblebees. This cluster caught my eye so I tried to capture how lovely it was.
White Prairie Clover (Dalea candida)
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This is an image I took this past summer at Bigelow Cemetery State Nature Preserve located in Madison County, Ohio.
This tiny half-acre cemetery contains original prairie sod, which has never been plowed. It still supports healthy populations of prairie grasses and wildflowers that once covered this vast ecosystem. Native prairie plants that grow here include the state-threatened royal catchfly (Silene regia), wax-leaved meadow-rue (Thalictrum revolutum), wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa), tall coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris), purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea), pale-leaved sunflower (Helianthus strumosus), gray-headed coneflower (Ratibida pinnata), black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia hirta), whorled rosinweed (Silphium trifoliatum), stiff goldenrod (Oligoneuron rigidum), and prairie dock (Silphium terebinthinaceum).
This image is a single exposure processed in Adobe Camera Raw and Photoshop CS5. I used a 3-stop reverse GND filter here to help control exposure of the sky.