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| Dredging along the Missouri River shoreline at Ponca State Park, working to create the backwater channel, June 2004. (Photo by Daniel Binkard) |
The Overlook Trail at Ponca State Park has a few cliffside spots where you can look out over the Missouri River. This is a bit of a different perspective compared to the overlook platform, and can be helpful in arranging foreground and background objects that are both distant to the photographer. Here in 2004, there is a project going to dredge a backwater channel along the Nebraska shoreline, which will create a habitat for birds, fish, and the ecosystem that goes with them. I don’t know the specifics of the dredging process, but it’s interesting to see the machinery involved. I like the arc of the floats in the foreground, which point back toward the boats and other equipment, and beyond toward the shore.
