Prairie Dreams by auntietk

Photography • Landscape • posted on Oct 29, 2010

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More from the tallgrass prairie. It took a while for me to get tuned in to the place ... it's so different from the Pacific Northwest ... but the prairie has a beauty and a magic all its own. Standing in grass up to my eyeballs, watching it blow in the wind, seeing the view through seedheads and golden stems, gave me a sense of what people love about that area. Today we drove through part of Kansas, through western Nebraska, and into Wyoming. I always thought I'd hate the midwest, but I stayed awake all day, not wanting to miss a minute of the view. I'm not ready to move away from the PNW, but I really am enjoying this trip! .......... Re: techie stuff ... Low f-stop gives the depth of field Although there's a bunch of postwork here, it wasn't cropped. I was happy with the composition straight out of the camera.

Comments (34)

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faroutsider

3:58AM | Wed, 03 November 2010

Another great example of your composition skills...

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Chipka

11:39AM | Thu, 04 November 2010

Once you get past the Laura Engles-Wilder sentimental take on it, then it really does open up and gives you insights into a lot of different mentalities that just can't exist in bumpy land. That's what I actually love about such places. Chicago is in an even odder place--a combination of prairie/swamp/bog: things get geologically and ecologically interesting here, and well...that particular combination of ecological biomes is really good for woodlice and earwigs and other intriguing little critters with lots and lots and lots of legs or six-legged flying that start off life as some of the most extravagantly "overdressed" larvae the world will ever see. And then there's the grass...oceans and oceans of grass...whole kilometers of grass. Sherri S. Tepper captured that in her novel, Grass and on occasions, whenever I see images like this, I wonder if there are hippae running around, kicking dead "bats" through teleportation portals in order to...well...you remember that particular plot revelation, I'm sure. And in short, that's what I love about this shot. It's perfectly seen, perfectly composed, wonderfully presented, and quite haunting in so many wonderful ways. It's brilliant, especially in terms of POV...you've got the close up of the prairie plant with the rest of the landscape in soft focus. Really nice! You've captured the essence of the prairie right here, and I love that. The Russian taiga calls to me, and it's ironic that the taiga is quite simply a prairie with different grass, and mosquitoes the size of something with propellers and gun turrets...and something Bill would undoubtedly know how to fly, or has at least seen pressed into active military service. Yeah, Russian mosquitoes ARE that impressive. But anyway, this isn't about blood-sucking insects, it's about a really fantastic shot! I love it. I don't know what the centerpiece plant is, but I'd love to see it in full bloom, just so that I can utterly fail to identify the blossom.

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