I’m writing this post toward the end of Winter when I’m really looking forward to Spring and bright, vibrant colors coming back into the world. The tail end of Winter is probably my least favorite time of year. I’ve been catching up on editing photos from this past Fall and looking back at the…
(click on any photo in this post to enlarge it) I had the chance Saturday to do some exploring around Alma with the gang from Kansascapes. We had hoped to photograph the moon rise out in the Flint Hills, but the clouds weren’t cooperating with us; a predicted 25% cloud cover had turned into 95%…
(click on any photo in this post to enlarge it) Photography is a strange blend of technical skills and knowledge and creative abilities. On the technical side you have things like f-stop, shutter speed, depth of field, etc. On the creative side you have things like composition and vision. The technical side of photography…
(click on any photo in this post to enlarge it) This weekend I had the opportunity to spend another afternoon photographing on the Bird Runner Refuge with the gang from the Kansascapes Photo Alliance. The light was less than ideal, but you can always find something to make a photograph of in any…
(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…
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…
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…
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. …
With the temperatures warming up this weekend I thought it might be a good time to visit some of the waterfalls in the area with the hopes that the snow melt would have them running full. So I took a road trip down to the Chase County Fishing Lake to see how the falls there…
I had the chance today to drive through a beautiful area of the Flint Hills around Fostoria that I hadn’t explored before. I was out today with a good friend, Adam, that had scouted the area recently and thought there might be some great views…and he was right! It was also probably one of Adam’s…