South Dakota
Feb 23, 2020 08:36:02 #
tcthome
Loc: NJ
Dang, how close were you to that bison? Nice set. Particularly like the sun flower field.
Feb 23, 2020 08:36:12 #
khumiston wrote:
I love your photos. I have a friend who is also fascinated with train tracks. He collects RR track spikes, each is labeled where & when he found it; I don't know if he has every state yet. Do you have more RR photos posted somewhere I could access, and send a link to my RR enthusiast friend? Thanks for the photos!
I wish I had somewhere to post these photos. I will try and gather up what I have and post here.
Feb 23, 2020 08:51:11 #
I grew up in South Dakota and remember the prairie well. My grandparents would tell of prairie fires in the late 1800s. I didn't really appreciate the prairie till much later. As a boy I read Thomas Hardy books and was impressed by his description of the English moors. I longed to see them. As an adult, I finally did. They looked pretty much like the South Dakota prairie!
Feb 23, 2020 08:53:22 #
tcthome wrote:
Dang, how close were you to that bison? Nice set. Particularly like the sun flower field.
As close as I can get. lol I have a love for bison and very little fear, but always respectful knowing they are animals and are wild. I have a awesome video of one of the big males cooling himself off rolling in the dust having the best time. I remember stopping beside the road getting out and photographing a heard of elk in CO I believe, it was mating season and I could whistle and the males would respond. I was at the front of the truck when I heard my boyfriend say "be still don't move" I turned and this beautifully huge male elk was right beside me. He stopped and looked at me and I just uttered "how beautiful" and he snorted and walked on. It was awesome. My boyfriend about peed his pants. I stood on the edge of the Grand Canyon to photograph the Colorado River. OMG he was freaking out telling me the sides were collapsing. I was perfectly safe, but his fear of heights is worse than my fear of snakes and that's bad. I have yet to see a Moose. Maybe this year in Alaska.
Feb 23, 2020 09:18:25 #
sb wrote:
You have done the impossible! This makes me want to go to South Dakota! Beautiful photos!
Thank you and great! You should go. I can't express how much seeing America has been such an eye opener for me. Every time I think I have seen the most beautiful sight I go a few more miles and there it is again. There is not end to God's magnificent majestic artistry in every thing. The Badlands are awe inspiring and breathtaking. I constantly find myself singing God Bless America and every word is true in that beautiful song.
Feb 23, 2020 09:24:26 #
khumiston wrote:
I love your photos. I have a friend who is also fascinated with train tracks. He collects RR track spikes, each is labeled where & when he found it; I don't know if he has every state yet. Do you have more RR photos posted somewhere I could access, and send a link to my RR enthusiast friend? Thanks for the photos!
I collected rocks traveling and labeled those so I could share with my family and friends. My boyfriend joked I had collected a ton. We are still finding rocks in little bags with labels in the truck from 2016. Each year we get a big map book and I highlight our routes we take. I have 3 now which I will be decoupaging on a piece of wood to hang in frames.
Feb 23, 2020 12:27:35 #
Feb 23, 2020 18:05:22 #
Cat wrote:
Thank you and yes it was. Every Reservation I go ... (show quote)
Thanks for doing these photos. Many of us will not have the opportunity to see these things. I know how Native Americans are about having photos taken of them our their lands. Had a Native American retire Chief friend who was a POW in Korea as a scout for the Marines. His health had him leave the reservation to be near a VA hospital. POW get special care. He told me many stories about growing up on the reservation as the son of the Chief, back the late thirties and 40's. I miss him very much. Looking forward to more photos.
Feb 23, 2020 20:11:35 #
I am always respectful being native myself. I was not raised with my family and I was forbidden in most of the foster homes of finding my family except for one. The first thing that was said to me was "welcome sister." I felt like I had finally found my place. Something I have searched for my entire life. I took the time to find my family looking and studying the Dawes Rolls and Siler Roll Book and genealogy background. now that I am older I look just like my great grandmother.
Feb 24, 2020 05:21:45 #
Feb 24, 2020 07:22:51 #
bpulv
Loc: Buena Park, CA
Cat wrote:
I checked store original on every pic but it's not working properly. I love SD. Sunflower fields for as far as the eye can see.
The clouds and the mountains change through each state. I love it! I have a thing for train tracks and I have shots of train tracks from every state I have been to...actually there's nothing I won't shoot everything is a moment I want to capture.
The clouds and the mountains change through each state. I love it! I have a thing for train tracks and I have shots of train tracks from every state I have been to...actually there's nothing I won't shoot everything is a moment I want to capture.
Very nice sequence!
Feb 24, 2020 09:05:35 #
Feb 24, 2020 09:17:04 #
Drigby1
Loc: American Fork, UT
Very pleasing sets. I have only been to the Mt. Rushmore area in S.D. Tons of things to do there. Did a bunch, but not all.
Feb 24, 2020 09:44:41 #
Feb 24, 2020 09:47:02 #
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