
Campground at Lake Ogallala
Nebraska State Park System
August 17, 2007 at 8.18am MDT; Pentax K10D; Exposure: 0.017 sec (1/60); Aperture: f/4.5; Focal Length: 45 mm; ISO Speed: 100

Entrance to Great Platte River Road Archway Monument, Kearney, Nebraska
The Archway actually crosses over Interstate 80
August 15, 2007 at 12.07pm CDT
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.004 sec (1/250)
Aperture: f/6.7
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Ancient dunes covered by grass, Lincoln County, Nebraska
August 17, 2007 at 12.20pm CDT
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.008 sec (1/125)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Nebraska — Sky — Trees — Windmill
The sand hills prairie is not normally this luxuriant, especially this time of year. Higher than normal amounts of rainfall resulted in the sand hills being greener and with taller growth.
August 17, 2007 at 3.29pm CDT
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/500)
Aperture: f/8
Focal Length: 18 mm
ISO Speed: 100
see my “out to the ranch” flickr set

This is the road to my great-aunt’s ranch in the Nebraska sand hills. With better than normal rains in 2007,
the prairie grasses were greener and heavier than I ever remember.
August 17, 2007 at 3.33pm CDT
Camera: Pentax K10D
Exposure: 0.006 sec (1/180)
Aperture: f/9.5
Focal Length: 55 mm
ISO Speed: 100

Composite image stiched from several photographs.
The back yard of my great-aunt on her ranch in the Nebraska sand hills.
see my “out to the ranch” flickr set