Yellow Mounds – Badlands National Park

The Yellow Mounds of Badlands National Park glow beneath a sky heavy with billowing storm clouds. These golden, striped hills in Badlands National Park are the Yellow Mounds — a rare stretch of ancient fossil soil that stands out from the gray and tan badlands surrounding it on every side. I caught them beneath a sky heavy with billowing clouds, which is really what made the shot. The deep grooves running down each hillside are just erosion doing its slow work, but from this angle they almost look hand-carved. Behind everything, the more typical pale badlands rim sits on the horizon, a good reminder of how unusual this particular corner of the park really is.  Printed to order on archival paper, canvas, acrylic, or metal in sizes up to 48×72. Ready to hang, and it ships in about a week.