Chalk Formations & Yucca

Gallery: LandscapePosted March 30, 2012204 views6 comments

Not many people would associate a scene like this with the state of Kansas. But there are many areas like this one near the Castle Rocks area in western Kansas. In this image I've captured some of the 80 million year old chalk formations at sunset.

I can't quite think in terms of millions of years so I calculated the number of sunsets that these formations had seen, approximately 29,200,000,000 ... give or take a few million!

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6 comments

Comment posted by Darren Huski on March 30, 2012 at 11:14 AM

Thumbs up! Great to see stuff from the Great Plains!

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Comment posted by Nathan Apodaca on March 30, 2012 at 12:47 PM

Kansas??!

Very nice image. Simple yet effective comp, with a good sunset.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on March 30, 2012 at 3:12 PM

That is alot of sunsets!

This is very nice Wayne. I think your comp worked really well, wonderful natural colors, and I love the foreground grasses with the green bush adding some nice contrast. A wonderful scene. Nice work!

Nick Bristol
Lone Rock, WI

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Comment posted by Rick Turner on March 30, 2012 at 9:55 PM

Good scene Wayne. I like it.

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Comment posted by Tony Kuyper on March 30, 2012 at 10:48 PM

I like the comp and light. Could maybe see trying to bring out more texture in the grasses by adding contrast in this area. It would better balance maybe with the light and contrast in the sky and rocks.

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Comment posted by John Williams on March 30, 2012 at 11:52 PM

Excellent Wayne, but I really like Tony's idea. (LOL at your comment on the sunsets the formations have seen.)

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