Candle Lights
View the Slideshow Emporia, Kansas – 2009 Seasonal Celebration dress rehearsal
Dance Lights
Emporia, Kansas – A very slow shutter speed helps capture the movement of dancers during the Seasonal Celebration dress rehearsal. Glow sticks held in the dancers’ hands create luminous circles in the darkened auditorium.
Music Lights
Emporia, kansas – Illuminated music stands help keep the orchestra on note during this year’s Seasonal Celebration dress rehearsal.
Fresh Eggs
Dover, kansas – These eggs were spotted in a cooler at the Sommerset Hall Cafe in Dover, Kansas. The cafe also offers important grocery services for the small town. But its big claim-to-fame is the pie made by Norma Grubb, whose coconut cream pie won the 2008 Best…
Winter Field and Barns
Watercolors
Early winter sunset at Herington Lake, Kansas Camera: Leica D-Lux 4
Earl
White City, Kansas – Every town has a character or two who add some color and fun to the mix. When I met Earl in front of the Huskie Hometown Market (grocery store) of White City I was prety sure he was one of those guys. The LED headlights, Alaska Trooper badge on…
Huskie Hometown Market
White City, Kansas – Something to be grateful for in any small town, Thanksgiving or not, is the local grocery store, if the residents are lucky enough to have one. If you come from a city you may take such things for granted, but these stores are big deal in rural…
Night Ride Home
After enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner with family we face the long dark highway home. The curved streaks of color are from a semi-trailer truck blowing by. The photo is ‘comped’ from a few different images to get exposure and focus working across the shot….
Sunset on the Lake
Cheryl Unruh watches the sun set over Herington Lake from a wooden dock.
to the tree
Greenwood County, Kansas
Mannequins #2
Wichita, Kansas – another study of alternate life forms in window displays at Town East Square Camera: Leica D-Lux 4
Last of the Performers
Bushong, Kansas – The high school stage is gradually collapsing beneath the great piano. Classrooms to the west have long forgotten the rustle of books, their window glass now scattered crystal shards. In the rough mix covering the floor I see the title To the Ends of…
Mannequins
Towne East Square, Wichita, Kansas – The sky’s too gray for landscape, or country exploration. But that’s okay. I’m in Wichita attending the annual meeting of Great Plains Nature Photographers. It’s a chance to meet many of the area…
Paint Rust
Surface detail on an old pastured Plymouth