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 | Prairie Burn
Photographed near Lake Kahola, in Lyon County, Kansas
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 10, 2009 | Fauna, The Natural World, Wildflowers
Kansas country roadside – It isn’t all smoke and fire in the countryside.Sandhill plums blossoms are beginning to open and the bees are ready for it.
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 5, 2009 | Black and White, Equivalence
by Dave | Apr 4, 2009 | Fauna, Spring
No matter what the calendar says, I didn’t feel like it was really spring until I saw Milo basking in the sunshine, surrounded by greens and grape hyacinth. Photographed with a new Sigma 70mm f2.8 macro lens. I bought it for close-up photography, but it’s...
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 30, 2009 | Artifacts, Black and White, Dissolving, Flint Hills
Morris County, Kansas
