Winter Wildlife at the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge
This past winter I spent more time photographing wildlife than I normally do. Granted this wasn’t a lot of time, but it was something different for me. I got started photographing wildlife at the “freeze your buns off ” (FYBO) event at the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge set up by fellow photographers Jim Griggs and Jeff Heidel. This […]
Dancing on the Prairie – Watching the Greater Prairie Chickens Boom
This past weekend I had the opportunity to visit a greater prairie chicken booming ground on Konza Prairie. A booming ground is an area where male prairie chickens do a “dance” and also “boom” to attract the attention of females (a bit like a college bar district on any given weekend for humans). The day started […]
The Beauty in Agriculture
Order a print of this photo Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been slowly re-working my photo galleries and added new images. I’ve completed one gallery of Flint Hills photos, “The Flint Hills – The Wide View”and I’ve just completed another gallery “Beauty in Agriculture” Of course landscape and nature photographs are beautiful […]
The End of the Beginning
I had big plans for photographing the transition from 2012 to 2013 – I was going to photograph the last sunset of 2012, the first sunrise of 2013 and the first sunset of 2013. Thought that might make a nice set of photographs. I’ve been planning to shoot sunset/sunrise/sunset at the change of each year […]
First Snow
Well winter is off to a better start this year than last year, we have already had two really pretty snows. After what seemed like the extended Fall we had last year, I hope we continue to get some real winter-like weather this year – especially if it brings some much needed moisture to the […]
Another year of Kansas – photographs from 2012
It is hard to believe another year has gone by. This past year was a strange on weather wise, wildflowers and the wheat crop were 3 to 4 weeks early in much of the state, we are still in a nasty drought and summer was a lot hotter than I prefer. The world still turns […]
A Dry Moon rise at Tuttle Creek Lake
A Dry Moonrise We had a brutal hot, dry summer this year in Kansas and I’m glad it is over. Unfortunately, the drought the summer brought is still hanging around with much of Kansas in either an extreme or exceptional drought (interesting use of the word ‘exceptional’ for the worst category of drought, I think […]
Shining Down
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The View from Coronado Heights
I’ve had the chance recently to photograph a few areas in Central Kansas including another stop at Coronado Heights. On this particular evening storm clouds were moving through the area and provided some really dramatic skies to photograph along with some of the fall colors at the top of the hill. I love big wide […]
A Bird Runner Afternoon
(click on photo to enlarge) I had the opportunity to spend some more time at the Bird Runner Refuge Sunday, this time for an overnight stay. I took the time late in the afternoon to wander around the refuge and ended up near one of the ponds as the sun was just starting to dip […]