PrairieDust visual journal

photographer Dave Leiker

Night Ride Home

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...
Last of the Performers

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

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...
First Taste of Winter

First Taste of Winter

No putting it off any longer, the first surge of snow and ice moved over the area yesterday. It’s melting off quickly, though, leaving it just cold, wet, and gray today.Camera: Leica D-Lux4