by Dave | May 2, 2009 | Black and White, Dissolving, Landscape
Barton Couty, Kansas
by Dave | Apr 16, 2009 | Equivalence, Landscape
Flint Hills, Chase County, Kansas
by Dave | Apr 12, 2009 | Flint Hills, Landscape, Prairie Burn, Spring
Chase County, Kansas
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.
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,...
by Dave | Apr 11, 2009 | Human, Landscape, Prairie Burn, Spring
North of Kahola Reservoir, Chase County, Kansas – Dan Bacon seeds a controlled burn of prairie grass as a water truck, off camera to the left (image below), prevents it from spreading into populated areas. The seasonal burns are an important part of maintaining...
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 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 29, 2009 | Artifacts, Landscape
Along 280 Road, Chase County, Kansas
