Flint Hills | PrairieDust

Bones & Prairie Grass

by Dave | May 7, 2009 | Black and White, Flint Hills

Flint Hills, Chase County, Kansas

Stone and Trees

by Dave | Apr 15, 2009 | Black and White, Flint Hills

Chase County, Kansas

Receding Fire

by Dave | Apr 12, 2009 | Flint Hills, Landscape, Prairie Burn, Spring

Chase County, Kansas

Spring Burn #2

by Dave | Apr 12, 2009 | Flint Hills, Landscape, Prairie Burn, Soft Lights, Spring

Chase County, Kansas – Smoke from a prairie-burn eclipses the sun and shrouds the landscape in soot, abstracting our view of the Flint Hills. Though it’s mid-afternoon on very bright day, it looks more like dusk.

Spring Burn – Starting the Fire

by Dave | Apr 11, 2009 | Flint Hills, Human, Landscape, Prairie Burn, Spring

Chase County, Kansas – Dan Bacon is setting flame to tallgrass along the roadside. He moves quickly. The wind is at his back, the fire chasing him as it spreads rapidly in the dry cover. The torch he pulls is fueled with a mixture of gasoline and diesel. He father,...

Circling Hawk

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* *...