DAVE BRUNER: Photo Gallery — Badlands Beauty

the North Dakota’s state flower, Prairie Rose.

Killdeer on a log.

Young bison calf and mother cow.

Bison herd with young calves.

A coyote on an early morning stroll.

Some neat rock and clay formations can be found in the Badlands.

Lone tree on a unique rock formation.

“The Spirit Tree” The lower upper right cloud formation caught the early morning sunlight and the higher clouds stayed out of the light causing this colorful split light V cloud formation. This lone tree is half alive and half gone, but still endures the prairie weather.

Fog along the Little Missouri River. The morning sun is rising behind the hill lighting up a colorful sky. Rising fog in the valley along the river gave a nice composition.

Sunlight just starting to hit the higher buttes in the background. A winding river with it’s rising fog, green trees and red scoria shoreline.

” Sundown Butte,” with the sun setting right between these peaks, which sprayed the rays of the sun across this butte. The evening sky was lit up in a fire red orange display.

Wind Canyon Sunrise.

The clouds had some small openings, where the sun sprayed its rays downward and upward in this scene along the Little Missouri.

In “Peaceful Evening,” where there were low clouds casting shadows as they floated along the green prairie hills.

These scenic landscape and wildlife photos, taken recently by Dave Bruner of Grand Forks — on many early mornings and late evenings — show the beauty and majesty of the North Dakota Badlands.