New on 500px : Night Glow by AaronGroen by AaronGroen

Taken June 30th at 3:10 am local time in the Badlands National Park along Highway 240 near the Ancient Hunters overlook.
Single exposure shot with some very subtle light painting.

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New on 500px : Pinnacles Overlook at Night by AaronGroen by AaronGroen

Panoramic view of the Milky Way and Badlands from the Pinnacles Overlook (down the steps, left at the “Beware of Rattlesnakes” sign and right up to the huge drop off). 13 frames stitched together, no dodging and burning or layers or blending or whatever its called this week. This is not a composite. Simply 13 frames stitched together after being RAW processed all the same. The exif data displayed is correct and the same for all 13 frames. This was so much fun to shoot here and I had forgotten how very very quiet it is in the Badlands. This pano was one of the first things I shot out here and the clouds were kind of off and on after this but I still stopped at every cool spot I could find and took a ton of shots. If you are interested I shot a quick video of myself working here —>>
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New on 500px : Twin Candles by alexnoriega by alexnoriega

Looks best on black.

Striking formations rise from the grasslands of South Dakota’s Badlands National Park, catching dramatic sunrise light. This is an image from January 2013, shot on a trip back to the Midwest.

There’s not much to work with here if you want this specific perspective, where these formations take on a stoic twin-peaks shape – so I settled on the leading curve offered by this ridge. Full snow cover or wildflowers would be ideal, but both are rare and fleeting, and I never find myself voluntarily in South Dakota. If I did, it’d be for this place alone.

Anyway, did you guys know the red candle can be used multiple times on the same screen? This makes it ideal for finding burnable bushes that are a secret to everybody. It’s also a formidable weapon against slow-moving foes, such as mummies.
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