Looking at the jagged peaks of the Cathedral Spires found in the Black Hills of Soutb Dakota.
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Portrait orientation photo of the sun behind a cloud as it is setting over grey granite rock formations that surround Sylvan Lake, that has an island of rock formations in the middle ground, and granite cliffs in the foreground, with a few small windswept pine trees on the rocks, and a small lens flare.
Landscape orientation photo of the sun setting in a partially cloudy sky, just above a mountainous horizon, with the exposed, grey rocky granite top of Black Elk Peak in the middle ground, and a 10 foot tall spire of granite illuminated orange from the side by the setting sun.
Portrait orientation golden hour fall photo of a scenic vista of a tree covered mountain canyon in the middle ground, that features the Cathedral Spires in the distance. The Cathedral Spires are a formation of massive granite spires and immense naturally stacked boulders that occupy the top of a ridge and descend into the canyon. The canyon is filled with green ponderosa pine and yellow aspen trees. A medium sized boulder is visible between the tops of pine trees in the foreground.
Portrait orientation fall sunset photo of a cloud illuminated vibrant orange from below by the sun, which has set below below a partially illuminated ridge of granite spires known as The Needles in near silhouette, against a yellow sky that fades up to pale blue. A road with trees above and below approaches the entrance to the Needles Eye tunnel under the spires in the distance. A large outcrop of boulders that stretch from the foreground into a valley full of ponderosa pine trees occupies the bottom third of the image. There is also a deciduous tree with a pointed top in fall colors on the left edge of the photo that grows from the foreground and reaches into the sky above the horizon to create a dappled silhouette of sparse small leaves and branches.
The Black Hills are so much more than Mount Rushmore.
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A tall, rough, gray rock formation rising into a clouded blue sky.
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