by Dave | Jan 25, 2009 | Flint Hills, Soft Lights, Winter
Lyon County, Kansas – Who says you can’t have it both ways? This is a color rendition of the previous post… well, at least winter colors.
by Dave | Jan 25, 2009 | Black and White, Dissolving, Flint Hills, Winter
Lyon County, Kansas – Winter cabin fever is setting in so, gray skies or not, I drove through country, breathing in the feel of open roads. I stopped beside the ruins of an old farmstead. Fallen limbs and barbed wire lay coiled like snakes in the grass. Beyond the...
by Dave | Jan 24, 2009 | Flint Hills, Landscape, Winter
Flint Hills, Lyon County, KansasThere isn’t much going on here, but I like the simplicity of the area, and all of the open quiet space. I visit this spot occasionally, along a country road not far from town. There’s something elegant about the sweep of...
by Dave | Jan 19, 2009 | Black and White, Flint Hills, Landscape
Winter landscape in the Flint Hills, Lyon County, Kansas
by Dave | Jan 11, 2009 | Flint Hills
Chase County, Kansas – St. Anthony Cemetery – This touching combination of figures was found when we were out looking for images that fit with setting of the book “The Virgin of Small Plains” by Nancy Pickard. The work was chosen by The Kansas Center for...
by Dave | Jan 5, 2009 | Flint Hills, Landscape, Soft Lights
Flint Hills, west of Reading – composite photo
by Dave | Jan 1, 2009 | Artifacts, Flint Hills, Soft Lights, Winter
Here’s a simple study that I find pretty satisfying.It’s more than the place, or the thing. It’s the way light spreads over a scene – especially, for me, when it’s slightly overcast – so that light wraps around things, adds a glow...
by Dave | Dec 31, 2008 | Flint Hills, Soft Lights, Winter
Chase County
by Dave | Dec 30, 2008 | Flint Hills
A newly laid grave awaits a marker at this hill-top cemetery in the Flint Hills, north of Elmdale, Kansas. Here’s a little history about the church on the hill: In 1881, Joshua Shipman made an offering of $100 to begin construction of a church. The cornerstone...
by Dave | Dec 27, 2008 | Artifacts, Flint Hills, Soft Lights
Here’s another view of the old chicken coop in the woods.