"I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching." Daniel Day -Lewis
I remember standing on this spot, waiting for the light and clouds to do the evening magic, and thinking what a geological difference from less than 400 miles from my home in Iowa. From topsoil to bedrock, prehistoric bedrock at that, and each place holds its own beauty. Yet my Iowa is a product of glaciers, while this is a product of eons of course sands wearing away the soil and floods of water cutting a pattern through the landscape that is now the Badlands.
The Badlands story is played out all over our great America, but in different ways and circumstances. Mountains in the West suffering the heaves of the inner earth and the heartland being formed by not only glacial activity, but also tons of soil being blown in from the western landscape to form our luscious hills, with water carving the valleys. If you could flap your wings and fly 100 to 200 miles in any direction and the story and landscape if different and loved no less by those that roam those spaces.
Despite the place, the year, the altitude, the heavenly light does its dance and creates its magic making each and every nuance of the landscape an amazing miracle of lights and darks and colors.
Thanks for visiting me again and I wish all of you the most blessed Thanksgiving. I am so thankful for your attention and that I have been lucky to witness each and every location that has splashed across these pages.
Places to see more of Daniel's work:
Pearson Lakes Art Center lakesart.com
500px.com
Facebook - Daniel Ruf Photography (I can't believe I'm on Facebook again???)
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