Michigan Valley Grain
Michigan Valley, Kansas – There is more to this small town than a faded main street (previous post), so I’m adding a second photo to provide some balance. This active agriculture center provides important services for the area. The photo would be more interesting with…
Michigan Valley, Kansas
The town has a large grain / elevator complex a couple blocks from this, but main street looks like this. A couple other buildings, nicely matched to this one, give it some company.
Supplication
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…
Elmdale Elevator
Elmdale, Kansas — This scene lends itself easily to black and white. The snow patterns on the ground mimic the texture of the clouds, while the winter trees create a rich black for contrast.
Goose Flight
Flint Hills, west of Reading – composite photo
Fish Feeder
Southeast area of Lyon County Fishing Lake, Kansas – The coloring was coming out by this time, though I filtered out the bluish cast in this image.
Winter Lake
Reading Lake (a.k.a. Lyon County Fishing Lake) – Kansas
Winter Morning
Reading Lake, Lyon County, Kansas – Taken before sunrise, that’s a camping area yard light reflecting across the ice.
Orwell, Kansas
Hodgeman County – If it weren’t for this crumbling site, and a blip the intersection of roads in the Kansas Gazetteer, one wouldn’t know a town was once here. These fragments of failed towns are common in the midwest. Often nothing is left but a pile of…
Return of the Chicken Coop
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…
Iced-Over Stock Tank
Chase County
Return to Prairie Earth
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…
Winter Abstracts: Ice Patterns 1
Also check out the Winter Abstracts collection. Kahola Reservoir Spillway, Chase County, Kansas – I spent some time on Sunday exploring ice formations in the river channel below Kahola reservoir. Great fun, juggling camera, camera case, and tripod while climbing over…
Winter Hail
We were pelted with hail a couple nights ago. The winter cold kept the pellets frozen in the grass and along the walkways, glistening pea-size spheres. Looking a bit like a chunk of lead crystal, the above image is a close up of one of the stones. (Actual size was…
Advent Candles
This year we had Christmas dinner at my brother’s home. Before the feast, Curt led the family in a very touching lighting of Advent candles, following the traditions of their faith (Catholic). The yellow candle was lit in memory of my sister, Deb, who died…