Driving Through Badlands National Park by bmac62
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When we are out taking pictures, I am always asking, "when, what, why, how". Thank goodness for park signs and Google, the answers are usually findable.
It took me awhile to figure out what I am about to write below, so if you already know this, please indulge me:-)
500,000 years ago there was a great grassy plain hundreds if not thousands of feet above this entire scene. The lower bowl in the center-ground has just eroded to a much greater extent than the background. So, everyone of those layers exposed in the background used to extend across this entire area. Eventually, the background will look like the center-ground. You know...in a mere couple of 100,000 years or so.
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Comments (14)
Such an amazing landscape and a fabulous shot too.
Nice country I visited some years ago.
I'm getting deja vu.......... Here's proof that great minds think alike!
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/off-the-grid-for-a-while/2665533/?p
This is a magnificent view, and you've captured its depth beautifully, Bill! This spot is always well worth a re-visit! :-D
Phenomenal photo!
It looks so unreal, like something from a computer game!
A fine photo!
wonderful landscape
So what you are saying is that we shouldn't make any plans. This is a wild image. It looks like someone or something reached in and scooped out the middle. A superb image.
I've never been there, but it reminds me a little of the Needles area of Canyonlands (though more yellow, where Canyonlands has more reds). If not for the road & vehicles, I can easily imagine this as an alien world...
Sweet shot!
I have heard of the "Badlands" from my son Jeff, when he plays computer games, but we both didn't know, that they actually existed for real - so, a quick Google search and we watched 'a visit to the South Dakota Badlands' ! (been there - done that now!) LOL, thanks Bill and we also seen a few fossil digs - very interesting.
also a very cool panorama and POV, especially when enlarged - we discovered a lot more...
LOL @ Rod! I loved seeing his picture and comparing the pov in both. Wonderful!
WOW, how amazing is that. x
EXCELLENT!
Very cool shot...