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ADVENTURE PHOTOGRAPHY
with Cathy &
Gordon ILLG
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Stormy Light
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SOUTH DAKOTA |
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BADLANDS
ADVENTURE |
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September 14 - 19, 2008 |
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$1795 Deposit: $400 |
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Airport: Rapid City,
South Dakota |
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Join us for 5 days of exploring this exciting landscape where the prairie
meets the Black Hills. We'll be going for variety on this
instructional photo tour, and we'll be concentrating on 3 separate
regions--the Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary, Custer State Park and
Badlands National Park. This one's going to require switching back
and forth between wildlife and landscape compositions a great deal.
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Bison Herd &
Fall Willows
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The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary is dedicated to
protecting this vanishing symbol of the American West, and it is a great
place to photograph herds of wild horses. Because the animals are
protected here, getting close to them is not a problem. Choosing
between shooting portraits, interactions or herd shots will be the big
difficulty.
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It's hard to find a better place than Custer State Park
for photographing pronghorn antelope and bison, especially if you want to
capture their relationship with their prairie habitat. We'll be
staying at the State Game Lodge in the park, giving us easy access to
these animals and possibly to bighorn sheep and mule deer as well.
And as long as we're so close, we'll also make time for Mt. Rushmore.
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Pronghorn Are
Plentiful
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Rabbit Brush Blooms
Late
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Subtle Colors, Great Rocks
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Badlands National Park contains the most spectacular
scenery in the thousands of square miles that make up the prairie
ecosystem. Miles and miles of colorful, volcanic soil has eroded
into a labyrinth of spires, mesas, peaks, aretes and draws. To
increase our chances of obtaining some special images, we'll be there
during the full moon, and this is a landscape where the imagination can
really run wild in the moonlight.
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Picture Yourself
Here
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