I had the great fortune to take a road trip down to the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge this weekend with several fellow photographers. This outing was organized by photographer Jim Griggs (check out Jim’s work on Flickr or visit his website) and the proceeds all went to benefit the Friends of Maxwell Wildlife Refuge. The refuge…
I was out this week the day before the full moon to try and get some shots of the moonrise. I had used The Photographers Ephemeris to scout for possible locations and found an old schoolhouse that I thought I was going to able to get the moon rising over. But like most plans, it…
A friend and I had an amazing guided tour (thanks Rick!!) of some land south of Alma in Wabaunsee County this weekend. That is a beautiful area of the Flint Hills. If you haven’t visited that area of Kansas you need to. Alma has a lot of historic buildings with some very interesting architecture. Two…
Iin my last post, I talked about finding my way to a waterfall I had never photographed before. When I posted a photo of that waterfall on Facebook, one of my old (and I don’t mean that he is old!) high school teachers (thanks Mr. Davis!) made a comment about the waterfall at the outlet…
Ok, I know, I know…I made a reference to the Wizard of Oz. I swear when I’m traveling and one more person says “Duh, your not in Kansas anymore are you Toto” there is going to be some…well probably nothing, I’ll just grumble and go my way. But anyway, to the point. Since Kansas is…
Last night I heard that the weather people were predicted fog for this morning. Fog usually makes for some interesting conditions to photograph in so I decided I would get up early and head to Stockdale Park on Tuttle Creek Lake. I thought the trees in the water there might be interesting in the fog.…
I’m going to be teaching a new photography class at UFM this summer titled “Introduction to Photography 2: Improving your composition”. The class starts June 10th and you can read more about it here: https://ufmprograms.org/CourseStatus.awp?~~10BCF120
Last weekend I had the pleasure of taking a road trip down to Teter Rock with a couple of friends and fellow photographers. We made several stops along the way and made some interesting discoveries (intentional of course!) including an old car in a fence line. The first place we stopped was the Lower Fox…
Since it is a little chilly today for this time of year, I thought I would post some pictures of the sun to help everyone warm up. Some of these I’ve posted before, some I haven’t. Think warm thoughts while you look at these.
Today I had to use a floppy disc to move some data from an old computer. Floppy discs, remember those? Took me awhile just to find one. I was lucky the much newer computer in my office even had a disc drive to read it with. Since I had to go ‘old school’ today using…