Sunrise at Teter Rock in the Flint Hills
This past weekend was filled with photography opportunities for me. I started the weekend off with a drive through the Flint Hills outside of Manhattan to empty a busy week’s worth of information (it was a good week, but seemed very full of stuff). Saturday morning I was up at a nearby lake for sunrise […]
Travels with Dad – A trip to the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge
This past weekend my dad and I took a quick road trip to a photography event at the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge just outside of Canton, Kansas. The past few winters there has been a photography outing there called FYBO (freeze your buns off) which raises money for the refuge. Maxwell has a herd of bison […]
Light on the ice – Some winter waterscape photographs
I’ve always enjoyed photographing water and at times I’ve thought that waterscape photographer would be a better label for me than landscape photographer. In the heat of the summer I’m really drawn to the water and spend quite a bit of time at nearby lakes. In the winter I also find myself photographing at lakes […]
Goosed – Photographing the geese this winter
This fall and winter I have really enjoyed photographing the Canada geese that have moved in to the area. I know the geese are noisy and messy and can be a nuisance (I wouldn’t want them in my backyard), but they are fun to watch. In flight they are very graceful, when they begin the […]
A long weekend of bird photography
In my last blog post I mentioned that we have been going through some streaks of cloudy days (admittedly with a few breaks now and then so I don’t think it is time to put a coffee shop on every street corner just yet). Grey cloudy days aren’t all that conducive for “the wide view” […]
A few breaks in the clouds and the return of the light
For a bit towards the last half of December I wasn’t sure I remembered what a nice sunny day looked like. It seemed like we were always under a dreary grey sky. I don’t know how people that live in perpetually cloudy locations can take it. A couple of weeks and I was climbing the […]
Photographs from Big Basin and St. Jacob’s Well
Earlier this fall my Dad and I made our annual photography trip down to the Barber-Comanche-Clark county area. We have been going down to this area of Kansas for the past several years and I always enjoy these trips. The Bean family got its start in Kansas in Comanche County in 1885 and it is […]
Making the most of dark Kansas skies – photographing the Milky Way.
On September 12th two coronal mass ejections from the sun hit the earth generating the possibility of northern lights in northern Kansas. I’ve never seen the northern lights so my wife and I and a good friend headed out north of Manhattan to see what we could see. Turns out the northern lights didn’t make […]
A Foggy Morning at Tuttle Creek Lake
Happy Monday! We have had some wonderful foggy mornings the past few weekends and I’ve really enjoyed getting out early with my camera. I love shooting in foggy conditions, you are never quite sure what you are going to come across when it is foggy and everything can change literally in a second as the […]
Saturday Sunrise at Tuttle Creek Lake
(ISO 100, 24mm, f/13, 1/100) Happy Monday! I was up early this past Saturday and made a stop at Tuttle Creek Lake for sunrise. I was on my way to deliver donuts to some nearby family so the morning was already off to a great start (how can a morning be bad if you have […]