Flinthills Konza sunset

All of you that made the trip out Utah, excellent captures. Makes me not even want to post a Kansas scape. We went out last night for a hike on the Konza prarrie trails and was treated to a spectatular sunset at least in Kansas . I'll post a few along the trail too. Thanks for looking and CC always welcome.

Heres some back lighted Butterfly Milweed along the trail.

We were also teated to quite a few deer along the way. This one was taken after the sunset photo and was shot at a high ISO and low shutter speed. I'm still learning different process ways on this, so if you have any suggestions please submit them.
Thanks everyone for your help.
Chris

Nice images Chris, but don't sell Kansas short, we have some awesome sunsets to share with the rest of the world.

The backlit butterfly milkweed shot is very nice. I really like the sunset image to, good comp but I would try to pull out some more overall brightness in the image so we can see more foreground detail. The buck with its unusual rack is good too. My only suggestion would be to clone out the bright branch that is in the deep shadows immediately above your subject.

Keep up the good work. Looking forward to seeing more.

Ditto everything Wayne said. Bring up the sunset foreground. Maybe try to double process the RAW file and blend them.

Kansas has some nice stuff. Keep showing us!

Don't apalogize for anything here, Chris. I agree about the foreground in the sunset. I would try to see if there is a little more detail there to bring out. The Butterfly Milkweed is very nice.

Hey Chris, I have some shots from the same spot as your sunset - however, it was a few years ago when we did a Flint Hills photo shoot in the dead of winter. If I had waited for a sunset I would be a popsicle. I agree with Wayne's comments. Trust me, he knows that part of Kansas - as well as several other members of the board who live and shoot in that state. Keep posting, you won't find a better group to work with.

Thanks for all the comments. I lightened the foreground up a little. I'm fighting the dirt that was in the air that day due to all the wind we have had making the picture hazy. We actually had to hold our tripods down that day or the wind would blow them over. If I lighten anything up to more I think the picture gets to hazy and flat looking. Any suggestions on working with photo like this would be helpful. I am going to go back up there and try this again, I just really enjoy the sunset when it is a big orange ball like that.

Very nice series, Chris

Really made an improvement with the processing on the re-post...too bad about the smoke and haze from the fires in New Mexico, Colorado and Arizona.

Chris, the reworked image looks much better to me. And I know what you mean about the wind & dust. We actually saw small scale dust storms as we drove back across western Kansas a couple weeks ago. I was exhausted after fighting the strong cross winds all the way home that day.

I sure hope the weather pattern changes and gives the south central part of the US some much needed rainfall this year.

Thanks for the comments, Hopefully the atomsphere clears up because I would love to catch the wheat with the golden light on it from this view. I tried to lighten it up but it just doesn't look quite right to me. Were going to try again Thursday and see what happens. I have some from Castle rock, Kansas I'll share tonight or tomorrow sometime.

The reworked looks good. Big improvement from just that little.

Thanks everyone for your help, its very much appreciated.
Chris