South Dakota 2017

[Anirban Halder]

.... and its remains of the Cold War with its numerous Minutemen Nuclear Missile shelters ....

Lovely pictures 👍🏻  Please, go on 😉

Thanks MFloyd

#20. More badlands



#21. Needle highway/Black hills


#22. It was around 4th July after all


#23.


#24. "The" Mount Rushmore.

[David H. Hartman]

Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the jackelope play,
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

This is what I hear in my ears each time I look at these photographs.

Thanks for posting!

Dave

[Hugh_3170]

Lovely set of images Anirban, and David's poetic response seems entirely consistent with your interpretations of this state.

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Looking at the Mt Rushmore image (#24) reminds me that on our TV this evening was a news clip reporting that some of the current US President's supporters want to see his his image up there with the first four............

[David Paterson]

Excellent work throughout; beautiful images and beautiful clean processing.

[Anirban Halder]

Excellent work throughout; beautiful images and beautiful clean processing.

Thank you David. Glad you like them.

Dave H - that poem is very appropriate. Thank you.

Hugh - it was eve of July 4th and I came across many supporters of current US president on the streets of South Dakota. 

#25. Ethanol plants. Common sight along the highways. South Dakota is the sixth leading ethanol-producing state in the nation.


#26.

[Jakov Minić]

Anirban, thank you for taking me to South Dakota.