Oglala Grassland Badlands, March 25, 2012

Afternoon sunlight shows the Oglala National Grassland landscape in harsh relief, March 2012. (Photo by Daniel Binkard)

An evening flight over the Oglala National Grassland and Toadstool Geologic Park badlands. This is film, I think Tri-X pushed to EI 800 and developed in Diafine. The lighting and striations in the rocks create a beautiful graphite look. I pushed the contrast a bit more in post processing to heighten the impact of the blacks and whites. There is plenty of detail in a scene like this, and it holds up pretty well close up, considering it's film and push-processed.