A good afternoon at the Bird Runner Wildlife Refuge

(click on any of the photos in this post to enlarge them) Earlier this week I had the chance to meet Wayne Rhodus (www.rhodusphotography.com) at the Bird Runner Wildlife Refuge to do some photography.  The Bird Runner Wildlife Refuge is a beautiful place located south of Manhattan and has a fantastic mission – to preserve […]

“Just” another sunrise at Stockdale

Can you believe it? I actually got myself out of bed this morning at 5:00 am for some sunrise photography at Stockdale Park on Tuttle Creek Lake.  Actually the alarm started going off at 5:00, I think I actually got out of bed around 5:30, but that is still pretty good for me!  I was […]

Wabaunsee County Burning

Tuesday of last week I went out in search of some more spring burns to photograph.  It was a still day and there were a lot of fires burning early in the day so I thought it might be a good evening for fire photography.  I decided that I would drive down to Alma, Kansas […]

Scouting, strange weather, and eagles.

We had some really strange weather Friday, heavy fog that stayed around most of the day and then light fog/haze that evening.  I was out at Stockdale Park scouting the location for a sunset shoot for one of my photography classes.  The fog/haze combined with the sunset was producing some really interesting light and colors […]

Its not spring until I smell the smoke: controlled burns of the Flint Hills

Last night I had the great pleasure of photographing some controlled burns near Council Grove with the man behind Kanscape Photography, Harold Gaston.  It was a great night, lots of burns going on and Harold had us placed in an absolute perfect position for photography. For those of you not familiar with the spring burning […]

Photography For A Cause

I’m really excited to announce that I’ve been asked to participate in this year’s “Photography For  A Cause” organized by La Brisa Photography.  Photography For A Cause was started by Chris of La Brisa Photography as a way to use his incredible talents to give back to the communities he has worked in.  For the […]

Wandering around the Flint Hills

I had the opportunity earlier this week to spend some time wandering around in the Flint Hills, which is always a good way to spend a day.  The day started by meeting fellow photographers from the Kansascapes Photo Alliance at the Bird Runner Wildlife Refuge where we are going to shoot a year long project.  […]

Who needs the moon

The full moon today (Saturday the 20th) is supposed to be a ‘super full moon‘ where the full moons occurs when the moon is closest to the Earth (perigee).  The moon will be somewhere around 14% larger than normal.  I went out Friday evening to try and photograph the moon rise a day early.  Why […]

Spring?

  Everyone knows that when life hands you lemons you make lemonade right? Well what do you do when life hands you a late snowfall when you are really tired of snow? You make photographs!   Yes I know, everyone is tired of snow.  But you have to admit, this was a really pretty snow. […]

More Waterfalls and slow shutterspeeds

I recently had the opportunity to take a “shooting trip” through the Flint Hills with good friend and fellow photographer Wayne Rhodus (check out Wayne’s photographs at http://www.rhodusphotography.com/).  We decided to make a bit of ‘waterfall’ circuit and the first stop we made was at the Geary State Fishing Lake to photograph the waterfall there.  […]