Close encounter

A camper enjoys his dinner oblivious that he’s under the eye of a buffalo at Sage Creek Rustic Campground in South Dakota on Tuesday, July 5, 2005. After shooting this photo in the Badlands, I talked to the camper and asked if he wanted a copy showing how close he was to the buffalo. His reply was, “What buffalo?”

Elizabeth Conley
2010 Michigan Press Photographer of the year. I've been a photojournalist at The Detroit News since 2003. Prior to that, I worked at a few smaller papers around the state and feel like every high school state tournament is a walk down memory lane. When I'm not working, you can find me using film cameras, enjoying Michigan's outdoors (and no, that's not sarcasm), traveling or making a mess in my kitchen.

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