Best of July 2014

Rabbit Butte Church in Perkins County, SD just after sunset on July 3rd.

Here are my favorite shots from July.  I spent a week in the Pacific Northwest at the end of the month and it was very difficult to pick which photos to post here from that trip as I saw a lot of beauty out there.  Click on an image for a larger file to view and thanks for checking in!

PS  Here is a link to more Pacific Northwest pics if you are interested: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10204635958201713.1073741835.1317890386&type=1&l=f09c4e6860

Rabbit Butte Church a bit later in the evening as the light changed to pink and purple on the cloud base.

July's super moon with a few silos southeast of Garretson, SD

Brown Earth Presbyterian Church with the stars on a humid night in Grant County, SD

A damselfly at Prairie Trails Park in southern Sioux Falls, SD

Thistle just beginning to bloom on the prairie.

A red dragonfly allowed me to get close for this shot.

A prairie rose in bloom in Grant County.

The Milky Way over Mount St. Helens in southern Washington state.

A purple shore crab watching me watch the tide roll in at Ecola State Park in Northwest Oregon.

Sunset on Cannon Beach, Oregon

Haystack Rock on Cannon Beach after the sunset so I could get a long exposure of the waves at it's base.