Pronghorn Landscape, Badlands National Park, South Dakota
The cheetah may be the fastest land mammal on earth, but when it comes to long range speed, it can’t touch the pronghorn (up to 55 miles per hour for five miles). The pronghorn ranges across a large area of western North America, along the front range of the Rockies. This one, photographed in Badlands National Park in South Dakota, wasn’t exactly showing off its stellar speed, but it cooperated by posing in front of the colorful early morning sky.
Nikon D700 with Nikkor 70-200mm lens (at 200mm) ISO 800, f/4 at 1/125th of a second, graduated neutral density filter