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Pawnee aerial

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Posted by Dave Showalter` on June 20, 2006 at 5:16 PM
Pawnee aerial
Hello,

My wife and I had a chance to fly around the Pawnee Buttes in a small plane last weekend. It was a great experience and so cool to go to the Pawnee and be home at breakfast time. I was shooting through the window - D200, 24-120mm (no VR)400 ISO at F8 and aperture priority, doing my best to shoot steady. The window wasn't pristine, either.

The attached image shows the ruggedness and starkness of the landscape. This must be what it looks like to a raptor.

The pilot was kind to fly low and circle the buttes twice. There's still some green, but it's getting parched out there!

Dave Showalter
Posted by Michael de León on June 20, 2006 at 6:20 PM
OOOOOO very cool :toast: I bet its really getting toasty over there! Nicely captured Dave :cool:
Posted by Nat Coalson on June 20, 2006 at 7:05 PM
Thanks for sharing this! A very cool perspective, and a good job of presenting what it "really looks like". Kudos!
Posted by CAZ on June 20, 2006 at 7:21 PM
Very, very interesting!! Thanks for sharing this!
Posted by Nat Coalson on June 20, 2006 at 8:07 PM
Ahhh, if only this was shot with 111 million pixels :razz:
Posted by Paul Martin on June 22, 2006 at 6:44 AM
Really cool view, thanks for the look! :toast: