Tim Walker Media: Badlands Landscapes

BADLANDS LANDSCAPES
by TIM WALKER

The first of three installments from my trip to South Dakota. Our first stop on the trip was to Badlands National Park just south of Wall South Dakota (home of the infamous Wall Drug). The national park is amazing, the sedimentary layers streak the landscape and the whole place looks unearthly. In the first fifteen minutes in the park I had seen this landscape below and a Big-horn Sheep ram--I knew then it was going to be a good trip. The eroded pinnacles of the park provided some interesting lighting problems to deal with, but ultimately I was happy with how the photos came out. Anyway, hope you all enjoy!

Buttes and spires stretch out into the distance, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/50 | Aperture: f/13

Plants grow out of the cracked sediment, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/250 | Aperture: f/11

Eroded layers of sediment, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/160 | Aperture: f/11

Exposed orange and yellow sediments, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/200 | Aperture: f/11

Mixed-grass prairie ecosystem, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/250 | Aperture: f/11

Plants and pinnacles, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 250
Shutter Speed: 1/320 | Aperture: f/10

Mixed-grass prairie ecosystem, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/200 | Aperture: f/11

Prickly pear cactus close-up, Opuntia sp, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 40D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/160 | Aperture: f/8

Prickly pear cactus grows on the edge of mixed-grass prairie, Opuntia sp, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/160 | Aperture: f/11

Pinnacles at sunset, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 40D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/20 | Aperture: f/10

Moonrise over pinnacles at sunset, White River Valley Overlook, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 40D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/20 | Aperture: f/13

Pinnacles at sunset, White River Valley Overlook, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 40D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/10 | Aperture: f/13

Moonrise over pinnacles at sunset, White River Valley Overlook, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 40D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/10 | Aperture: f/13

Moonrise over pinnacles at sunset, White River Valley Overlook, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 40D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/8 | Aperture: f/18

Moonrise over pinnacles at sunset, White River Valley Overlook, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 40D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/8 | Aperture: f/13

Pinnacles at sunset, White RIver Valley Overlook, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 40D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/5 | Aperture: f/13

Desert shrub and pinnacles, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/13 | Aperture: f/14

Yellow and orange sediment layers and pinnacles, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/13 | Aperture: f/14

Prickly pear cactus growing near pinnacles, Opuntia sp, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/60 | Aperture: f/13

Rains streak patterns in the cracked sediment, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/640 | Aperture: f/11

Plants grow in the dry cracked sediment, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/100 | Aperture: f/13

Mixed-grass prairie ecosystem and underlying sediment, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 250
Shutter Speed: 1/160 | Aperture: f/8

Red and white sedmentary layer are streaked with lines carved by erosion, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 250
Shutter Speed: 1/160 | Aperture: f/8

Pinnacles at sunset, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 250
Shutter Speed: 1/160 | Aperture: f/8

Soil, Mixed-grass prairie and pinnacles, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 250
Shutter Speed: 1/100 | Aperture: f/8

Mixed-grass prairie grasses blow in the wind, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/2 | Aperture: f/22

Mixed-grass prairie grasses grow under pinnacles, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 500
Shutter Speed: 1/80 | Aperture: f/6.3

Mixed-grass prairie grasses grow under pinnacles, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/20 | Aperture: f/13

Prickly pear cactus grows through cracked clay, Opuntia sp, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 200
Shutter Speed: 1/50 | Aperture: f/14

Mixed-grass prairie grasses grow under pinnacles near dry cracked clay, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/13 | Aperture: f/14

Prickly pear cactus and grasses grow from mound of sediment, Opuntia sp, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/13 | Aperture: f/14

Pinnacles at sunset, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/13 | Aperture: f/14

Mixed-grass prairie and pinnacles at sunset, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/6 | Aperture: f/14

Moonrise over eroded valley, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 1/2 | Aperture: f/13

Eroded spires at twilight, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 100
Shutter Speed: 8" | Aperture: f/13

Pinnacles illuminated by moonlight, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Camera: CanonCanon EOS 7D | ISO: ISO 320
Shutter Speed: 190.00005158202" | Aperture: f/7.1