Devis Tower (Bear Lodge, Devils Tower National Monument)

            Adventures can be dangerous even for those used to the thrills
There are terrifying views from trails walked 
Or a scramble across to a peak seemingly beyond one’s years
I’d say though that what’s really terrifying is sitting and doing nothing 
The routines of a life can temper too much a person’s soul.

Another work of short poetry or prose to describe and complement the image captured one early morning while walking the Red Beds Trail in Devils Tower National Monument. To compose this image I went back and forth in my mind how high to have Devils Tower in the image. The skies were amazing with the clouds, but the landscape with the trees and prairie grasses was also a sight to take in, especially as the sunlight moved across adding different hues to the greens and yellows as well as shadows cast. Metering the image was then a matter of finding a good enough one to not blow anyu highlights while later pulling the shadows out in post-production with Capture NX2.
   

Taken in: United States / Wyoming / Crook (show map)

Taken on: May 17, 2018

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1558 m

5112 ft

Bear Lodge

Bear Lodge Butte

Bear Lodge Mountains

Belle Fourche-Little Missouri Area

Black Hills

Blue Skies

Blues Skies with Clouds

Butte

CamRanger

Canvas

Capture NX2 Edited

Cloud Wisps

Color Efex Pro

Daisies

Day 8

Devils Tower

Devils Tower National Monument

Eccezionale

Evergreen Trees

Evergreens

Field of Daisies

Free Verse Poetry

Grassland

Grassy Area

Grassy Field

Grassy Meadow

Great Plains

Hiking Trail

Hillside of Trees

Igneous Rock

Image Capture with CamRanger

Laccolithic Butte

Landscape

Looking NE

Mixed-Grass Prairie Ecosystem

Nature

Nature Trail

Nikon D800E

North America Plains

Outside

Partly Cloudy

Pinus ponderosa

Poems Used

Poetry and Prose

Ponderosa Pine

Portfolio

Prairie Grass

Prairie Grasses

Project365

Red Beds Trail

Rolling Hillsides

Sunny

Tall Trees

Tall Trees All Around

Trees

Trip to Dakotas

Trip to Dakotas and Wyoming

Wildflowers

Yellow Daisies

Wyoming

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Camera: Nikon D800E, f/6.3, 1/400 sec, 24mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D800E
Lens:	24.0-120.0 mm f/4.0
Aperture:	f/6.3
Exposure Time:	0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length:	24mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Landscape
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Capture NX 2.4.7 M
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