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 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 | 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.
by Dave | Mar 7, 2008 | Flint Hills, Kansas, Landscape, Soft Lights, Winter
by Dave | Feb 20, 2008 | Flint Hills, Kansas, Landscape, Soft Lights
Morris County, just off Diamond Creek Road near Hwy 50
by Dave | Jan 18, 2008 | Black and White, Flint Hills, Kansas, Winter
by Dave | Jan 1, 2008 | Flint Hills, Kansas, Landscape, Winter
Happy New Year!Here’s a winter portrait of my favorite out-building in the state. It’s on the south side of Highway 4, just a few miles west of Topeka.