Road Trip part 4. The Final Stretch.
Time to wrap up this series of posts on my road trip through Kansas. After leaving the Scott County Lake, Dad and I were headed east for the drive home. We stopped at Cedar Bluff Reservoir, another one of those locations that I had been to when I was growing up (physically, I still haven’t […]
Road Trip part 3. Scott County
Time for the next installment of “road trip” updates. After photographing around the Clark County Lake and the Big Basin area, Dad and I drove north up to Scott City to photograph around the Scott Lake and some of the unique limestone rock formations in that part of the state. This is another part of […]
Road Trip part 2: Sunrise, scenic detours, and surprises
Day 2 of the road trip started off with getting up before sunrise to drive from Coldwater to the Clark County Lake. I’d never been to the Clark County Lake, but the photographs I had seen of it had me really interested in visiting. Dad and I were following a bit of ‘back road’ route […]
Clouds, sunset and slow shutter speeds.
Fall is my favorite time of year for many reasons, but one of the main ones is the weather. I’ve never been a hot weather person and I love the cool temperatures of fall. We have been having some nice weather lately, but….we haven’t had hardly any cloudy skies the past couple of weeks. Almost […]
Road Trip, part I: Down to Coldwater
Earlier this month I had the great pleasure of taking a 3 day, 1100 mile photography road trip through south central and western Kansas with my Dad (who is also a photography addict). We had a great time and it was great to get to spend time with my Dad driving through country we both […]
Lens hoods, lens flare, and shading your lens
The photo above was taken last weekend at Wildcat Park. I’m shooting right into the sun for this shot to demonstrate how to make a “sunburst” effect with the sun for my photography class. Very noticeable in this photograph are the colored shapes on the left side of the photograph. These spots are “lens flare” […]
A (lucky?) dramatic morning at Konza Prairie and Pillsbury Crossing
This past weekend I went to the Konza Prairie Biological Station’s “Konza Prairie Visitors Day.” Konza is a roughly 8600 acre area of native tallgrass prairie owned and operated by The Nature Conservancy and Kansas State University for conducting long term ecological research. While there are public hiking trails available, much of the prairie is understandably […]
The moon, the wind, and working with what you are given.
Earlier this week I was out to photograph the moonrise (which was the “harvest moon” on the 23rd). I headed out to Wildflower Road near the Carnahan Creek area which is a great spot to photograph the moonrise. While waiting for the moon to show up I did a bit of scouting and I was […]
Beauty close to home.
In keeping with the theme of my last two posts about finding beauty close to home, I’ve added a gallery to my website of photographs taken close to Manhattan, Kansas. Beauty is everywhere we choose to find it. “Close to home” gallery of photographs taken around Manhattan, Kansas.
Stockdale Park, another favorite location
In my last post I wrote about photographing a sunset from a familiar stretch of riverbank below the dam at Tuttle Creek Lake. A few days later I found myself photographing sunrise (of all things!) at another familiar place…Stockdale Park on Tuttle Creek Lake. I have taken a lot of photographs at Stockdale, the trees […]