Strange Photography Opportunities for the First of Spring
It seems like winter really didn’t want to leave this year with several late snow storms coming through the area. I know I’ve complained about the snowy weather (who hasn’t) which was a largely wasted effort on my part. The weather will be what it will be (this summer I’ll be complaining about the heat […]
March Print Of The Month Special – “Almost Sunset” from the Flint Hills of Kansas
http://fineartamerica.com/weeklypromotion.html?promotionid=139089 I’ve been wanting to try something like a ‘print of the month’ deal this year (I’m a little slow getting this started!) so here goes my first attempt at this. For a limited time the photograph “Almost Sunset – View From Teter Rock” as a 16×20″ canvas gallery wrap for $99…over 50% off the normal […]
Wandering the shoreline of Tuttle Creek Lake….again.
This past Monday I was feeling the need to get out somewhere with my camera and photograph something. Last weekend I didn’t make it out and was starting to go through withdrawal. The temperatures were not ideal (it was cold, cold, cold) but I had a partially cloudy sky to work with and the […]
Front Yard Birds
With the recent snow storm in my area and the gloomy cloudy days I haven’t made it out to the countryside for a while now. I can’t say I’m going through withdrawal or anything like that (it hasn’t been that long) but I have missed spending some time outside. I did get a bit of […]
Photographing Kansas Elk and Bison at the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge
(ISO 400, 400mm, f/5.6, 1/60) This past weekend I had another opportunity to visit the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, located near Canton, Kansas. The refuge hosted a special event the past two weekends for photographers to visit the reserve and photograph the bison and elk. This is the third time I’ve been to one of these […]
Stalking and photographing a couple of windmills
I’ve had an obsession with photographing the moon in the landscape for a long time, an obsession that started by watching the moon rise over a windmill just outside of Manhattan, Kansas. I didn’t get a photograph that first time I really watched (and took the time to really see) the moon rise over the horizon, […]
A couple of beautiful sunrises at the River Ponds
(7 shot stitched panorama: each frame ISO 100, 10mm, f/8, 1/25) At the risk of “TMI”, I’ve been working on developing some better habits for 2014, one of which is setting a regular sleep schedule and getting up at 6:30 a.m. I haven’t been much of a morning person so the first week of this […]
Spring Introduction to Adobe Lightroom Class
FYI, my UFM class “Introduction to Lightroom” starting Jan 28th still has some open spots if anyone is interesting in signing up. More details and registration information is available at: https://ufmprograms.org/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=14ACF140
From the Field:First sunrise outing of 2014
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a good New Year celebration. I have been looking forward to getting out and making my first images of 2014 and last Saturday I finally had the chance. Checking the weather forecast I had noticed that conditions around sunrise were supposed to be partly […]
Review of 2013, My Year in Review and the Changing Kansas Landscape
At the end of each of the past few years, I’ve been creating a slideshow of my landscape and nature photographs as a sort of ‘year in review’ presentation (here are links to 2011, and 2012). I’ve continued the tradition this year as well. . This was a good year for my photography and I feel […]