Barn, Radar Hill Road
We were supposed to have serious snow, if not an outright blizzard, earlier in the week. Didn't happen. Was supposed to happen again yesterday. Didn't. Today? Nope. So, having no excuse to stay inside, we loaded up the camera and hit the back roads to put it through its paces. Nothing posted here has been Photoshopped or edited. All errors are my own original product. As you can see, I'm playing with light. As you can also see, I'm in love with the b/w feature (which for some reason is called "monochrome." It's anything but.).
I used the day as a opportunity to get some shots at tiny rural cemeteries for
Find a Grave. This site has helped me so much with my own genealogical work that I'm glad to be able to help document these little places in turn. Sometimes these shots are the only proof a family has of an ancestor's life. That's especially true out here, where so many in my generation and after left the land and moved to town.
It was a lovely day with oddly pastel light. Enjoy.
House, Radar Hill Road
Farm eggs sign
Tavern
Elevators
Steeple
Distant house
Barn
Lakeside Cemetery
Twin cabins
Belle Fourche river banks
Belle Fourche river
Abandoned farmhouse
Tractor
Sign, Elm Springs Cemetery
Horseshoe cross, Elm Springs Cemetery
Belle Fourche River
Belle Fourche River
Boot on fence, no explanation
Minuteman missile silo site; this area was honeycombed with them. It's sobering to think how devastated this area would have been if these had been launched,
Abandoned house
White Owl Cemetery gates
White Owl store
House with Bear Butte in the distance
Afternoon light
Prairie road
Bald eagles leaving the scene of the roadkill
