Years have passed since we’ve covered the Laura Ingalls Wilder homestead in our magazine. This gorgeous slideshow by David Eggen from the New York Times reminded us why we need to get up there.
De Smet in the Times
Category: columns-photo
A Farmer’s Pictures
Today we stumbled upon the website of Randy Halverson, a farmer from Kennebec whose photos and videos of South Dakota’s night sky have been shared around the world.
Halverson raises corn by trade, but does time lapse photography as a hobby. He describes it as the opposite of high speed photography. The exposures are long, and when replayed at a normal speed things appear to move faster. He has shot storm clouds, cottonwoods and the Milky Way passing over a cornfield. The video that’s gotten the most buzz lately is his “Sub-Zero: A Winter Night Time Lapse.” Halverson braved 25-below wind chill to create a 2 minute, 43 second video of the night sky, featuring the constellation Orion passing overhead.
National Geographic called his videos “jaw-dropping.” Watch and you’ll understand why.
