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Beautiful Prairie

North Dakota's prairies offer up a beauty that most people will never see.
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What happens next?!  At the small sanctioned annual rodeo at Wing, North Dakota, there's a fine line between the spectators and the cowboys -- well actually just a fence.  You can drive right up to the arena to get a front row seat of cowboys such as this one about to bite the dust.
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What happens next?! At the small sanctioned annual rodeo at Wing, North Dakota, there's a fine line between the spectators and the cowboys -- well actually just a fence. You can drive right up to the arena to get a front row seat of cowboys such as this one about to bite the dust.

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  • When railroads abandoned their old wooden box cars Cooperstown area farmers used them as barns and storage bins.
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  • Hangin' out at the street corner, a bunch of the boys from the hood.
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  • Coming home to where I lived at the time, in a hunting lodge in the Knife River Valley near New Town, I watched the sunset become more intense.  I walked out in to a flax filed to get the silhouettte of the parked combine.
  • Until about 1985, this was a thriving local grain elevator. Then Burlington Northern decided to abandoned the line and this empty grain elevator remains at Lake Williams. While the "golden hour" produces good color as seen in the ice chunks in this album, it also provides a lighting that can't be duplicated during the mid-day sun. So, with skillful processing, enhancing contrast and lines while desaturating, a spooky clean image of an abandoned grain elevator is possible.
  • A February night and the light was right to capture this image of the old depot that is now a mexican restaurant, Fiesta Villa.
  • From near Steele, North Dakota mother and child watch the photographer intently -- or maybe they're just posing.
  • Until about 1985, this was a thriving local grain elevator. Then Burlington Northern decided to abandoned the line and this empty grain elevator remains at Lake Williams. Unlike the B&W image next door, this one accentuates the color of the sunset, the reason I stopped to take this photo in the first place.
  • This lonely abandoned farm house in Oliver County, North Dakota prompts an erie and forlorn feeling. The tire tracks through the tall grass, the aged home.  You can almost imagine the family that grew up here and now lives somewhere else.
  • Until about 1985, this was a thriving local grain elevator. Then Burlington Northern decided to abandoned the line and this empty grain elevator remains at Lake Williams. While the "golden hour" produces good color as seen in the ice chunks in this album, it also provides a lighting that can't be duplicated during the mid-day sun. So, with skillful processing, enhancing contrast and lines while desaturating, a spooky clean image of an abandoned grain elevator is possible.
  • What happens next?!  At the small sanctioned annual rodeo at Wing, North Dakota, there's a fine line between the spectators and the cowboys -- well actually just a fence.  You can drive right up to the arena to get a front row seat of cowboys such as this one about to bite the dust.
  • Mid-summer, a mature wheat field and grass pasture next to it.
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  • Along Highway 14 in central North Dakota is the reminder of a farm long abandoned.  Where there once was a yard with perhaps children playing is now overtaken by a growing wetland, a slough or pot hole. This is typical of the prairie pothole region of North Dakota.  It was a cold autumn day when I shot this, and so with a little post-processing work added filters to present not only the image, but the mood of the moment.
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