Barbed Wire
A very busy post, this is. It holds a corner position, stabilizing the a join of three fences at the top of the hill on Bobcat Road.
Twisting Road
Wabaunsee County – The backroads of Kansas are the way to travel if you want to see the inner beauty of the state. Of course this assumes you’re not in a hurry, and have four-wheel-drive to get, or keep you out of trouble.
Smoky Haze on Wabaunsee County Farmland
Looking down from one of the hilltop views in scenic Wabaunsee County, the land sections in the valley below are painted with spring colors. The view isn’t a clear and usual. Smoke from range burning throughout the area has filled the hills with a bluish haze.
Photographing the Burn
Photographer Don Palmer carefully approaches a section of burning range grass on a Wabaunsee County side road. Ground cover is commonly burned in the Flint Hills every spring to help maintain the tall grass prairie ecosystem.Also check out my Flash slideshow from this…
Range Burn in the Kansas Flint Hills
Range burns are used, in the Kansas Flint Hills, to help maintain the tall grass prairie. An excellent source for more information is this article on the Emporia State University web site .Also check out my Flash slideshow from this years burn .
The Road West
Early morning fog accentuates the layers of the rolling Flint Hills, on a side road just off highway 99. I hit the road early this morning, as I looked forward to a day touring the Flint Hills with photographer Don Palmer, of Kansas Photos . I’d never met Don,…
Early Morning Alley
A photoblog, or journal, is a little like a sketchbook. It’s a record of experiments, visual notes for things to try later. I don’t know if this images works by itself, but there is a play of light and color that I like, and I want to do more with it. I…
Rain soaked daffodil
Rainy Day Tulip Leaves
Rainy Day Daffodil Petal
Lights Out for Earth Hour
Tonight at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund. – from the Earth Hour website
Blackbirds
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…
Cattle and Dry Grass
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…
Nesting Herons
A group of great blue herons (I think that’s what they are) nest in the top of the trees beside a river in Rice County, Kansas. Overcast skies and late afternoon light turned this into a silhouette. The big birds were watching me. I found that if I slowly raised my…
Mullinville Sky
The welded and painted political art of M.T. Ligget dominates a stretch of highway in Mullinville, Kansas. This was photographed in May of 2007. I reworked it a little bit so I could post a better quality version.