When you visit the west in the late summer or early fall, there’s a good chance you’ll run into some smoke from wildfires…it’s just been a common thing over the last few years. On this morning in August in Badlands National Park, the sunrise was dramatically diffused by the hazy smoke. Sunsets too would end up with just a glowing orange ball on the horizon. Taking shots of the Milky Way at night were out, but mornings and evenings could be dramatic…and they provided this kind of surreal, lunar look, that would be tough to get at any other time.