by Dave | Apr 10, 2009 | Fauna, The Natural World, Wildflowers
Kansas country roadside – It isn’t all smoke and fire in the countryside.Sandhill plums blossoms are beginning to open and the bees are ready for it.
by Dave | Apr 6, 2009 | Flint Hills, Landscape, Soft Lights
Flint Hills, Chase County, Kansasfor Deb* * * ‘I will not be clapped in a hood, Nor a cage, nor alight upon wrist, Now I have learnt to be proud Hovering over the wood In the broken mist Or tumbling cloud.’ William Butler Yeats – The Hawk* *...
by Dave | Apr 5, 2009 | Black and White, Equivalence
by Dave | Apr 4, 2009 | Fauna, Spring
No matter what the calendar says, I didn’t feel like it was really spring until I saw Milo basking in the sunshine, surrounded by greens and grape hyacinth. Photographed with a new Sigma 70mm f2.8 macro lens. I bought it for close-up photography, but it’s...
by Dave | Apr 4, 2009 | Landscape
Sunrise – Lyon County, Kansas
by Dave | Mar 31, 2009 | Equivalence, Landscape
Emporia, Kansas – From my driveway I watch clouds roll over the city again. The darkening sky is pierced with lightning. A neighbor family returns home as it begins to sprinkle. The mother watches with me for a moment. There was, she says, a great view of the sky as...
by Dave | Mar 30, 2009 | Artifacts, Black and White, Dissolving, Flint Hills
Morris County, Kansas
by Dave | Mar 29, 2009 | Artifacts, Landscape
Along 280 Road, Chase County, Kansas
by Dave | Mar 28, 2009 | Winter
by Dave | Mar 28, 2009 | Cityscapes, Winter
An out-of-season blizzard moved across the central U.S. today, bringing snow and a thick coat of ice to Emporia. Still, we got it pretty light compared to many areas. As the photographer takes refuge among the window geraniums in the warm lobby of the Kress Building,...