South Dakota is an odd state on
this list. Two things come to mind when I think South Dakota, Mt.
Rushmore and badlands. I have four photos of South Dakota, none of them
are of Mt. Rushmore or badlands, but I think that they are fairly
representative of the state I saw.
The
first one is my favorite photo that I have ever taken. I was
unbelievably tired, I had just found out that Les had lost my debit
card, we were behind schedule and we saw this beautiful sunrise. Les
drove on ahead and I pulled off into a field and got the camera out.
Again I was insanely tired, and every photo I took had the sky washed
out and the field perfect or the field black and the sky looking
amazing, so instead of turning on my brain and changing some settings on
the camera, I left it in program mode, knelt down and shot the sky
through the grass, it showed the prettiness of the sunrise and gave some
context to where I was seeing it from. I saw
a lot of grass in South Dakota. This was taken just outside of Spearfish.
The other three are all from a rest area on I-90. The lone tree especially reminds me of a lot of the scenery I saw in the rest of the state.
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| Tepee monument/art piece at the rest area. |
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| There were a ton of these signs, they weren't kidding around about the snakes! |
