by Dave | Mar 25, 2008 | Flint Hills, Kansas, Landscape
Chase County, Kansas — This is a composite photo. The brooding nature of the clouds needed something more to bring the concept into focus, so I brought in the swooping blackbird, photographed a few miles south earlier that evening. A color wash was also applied to...
by Dave | Mar 24, 2008 | Flint Hills, Kansas, Landscape
A lazy, spring afternoon fit the lifestyle of these grazers just fine. Like most domestic animals they saw me as a potential source of food, and came closer to investigate. I also saw dozens of deer, last evening on green grass meadows, but couldn’t get close...
by Dave | Mar 22, 2008 | Black and White
A group of great blue herons (I think that’s what they are) nest in the top of the trees beside a river in Rice County, Kansas. Overcast skies and late afternoon light turned this into a silhouette. The big birds were watching me. I found that if I slowly raised my...
by Dave | Mar 21, 2008 | Kansas
The welded and painted political art of M.T. Ligget dominates a stretch of highway in Mullinville, Kansas. This was photographed in May of 2007. I reworked it a little bit so I could post a better quality version.
by Dave | Mar 21, 2008 | Black and White, Small Towns
Bookcase, underground at Ellinwood, Kansas – A long buried segment of the towns history is now open for tours. Underneath the city streets is another, underground city. Here you can walk through the tunnels that joined cellar businesses in an earthier economy – bars,...
by Dave | Mar 16, 2008 | Flint Hills, Kansas, Landscape, Soft Lights, Winter
North of HartfordI drove through Neosho Rapids, and the wildlife area this morning, but the landscape and sky was pretty gray. This scene has a wash of green in the background, adding a little bit of freshness to the photo.
by Dave | Mar 11, 2008 | Black and White, Flint Hills, Kansas, Landscape, Soft Lights
This is along old road 10, southwest of Alma — This one’s all about the textures in the scene – the grasses, limestone, the walls of the school…. They come through better in a monochrome than in color. The natural coloring wasn’t great...
by Dave | Mar 9, 2008 | Black and White, Kansas, Small Towns
Alta Vista, Kansas — another angle on this fantastic wooden bridge over railroad tracks.
by Dave | Mar 9, 2008 | Flint Hills
Volland, Kansas — On highway 10 southwest of Alma.
by Dave | Mar 8, 2008 | Flint Hills, Kansas
I didn’t know this remnant of a town even existed until today. But we took a wrong turn out of Alma and came across what’s left of Volland.
