Bighorn, Badlands National Park, South Dakota

I’ve posted a few images from this series in the past. Here’s another of a lone bighorn atop the eroded buttes of Badlands National Park in South Dakota. The bighorn being on the ridgeline allowed me to shoot with a wider telephoto, making the subject smaller in the overall composition and really communicating all that glorious environment. I was also able to use a graduated neutral density filter to hold the detail in the sky while preventing a full silhouette of the landscape. Nikon D800 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 150mm) ISO 400, f/8 at 1/800th of a second, split graduated neutral density filter.