Photographing Kansas Elk and Bison at the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge
(ISO 400, 400mm, f/5.6, 1/60) This past weekend I had another opportunity to visit the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, located near Canton, Kansas. The refuge hosted a special event the past two weekends for photographers to visit the reserve and photograph the bison and elk. This is the third time I’ve been to one of these […]
Stalking and photographing a couple of windmills
I’ve had an obsession with photographing the moon in the landscape for a long time, an obsession that started by watching the moon rise over a windmill just outside of Manhattan, Kansas. I didn’t get a photograph that first time I really watched (and took the time to really see) the moon rise over the horizon, […]
A couple of beautiful sunrises at the River Ponds
(7 shot stitched panorama: each frame ISO 100, 10mm, f/8, 1/25) At the risk of “TMI”, I’ve been working on developing some better habits for 2014, one of which is setting a regular sleep schedule and getting up at 6:30 a.m. I haven’t been much of a morning person so the first week of this […]
From the Field:First sunrise outing of 2014
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a good New Year celebration. I have been looking forward to getting out and making my first images of 2014 and last Saturday I finally had the chance. Checking the weather forecast I had noticed that conditions around sunrise were supposed to be partly […]
A Cold Morning at Pillsbury Crossing and a Cold Sunset at Willow Lake.
Nice weather on Saturday and brutally cold on Sunday…ahh Kansas weather. I had hoped the heavy snows before Christmas and the warm weather on Saturday would mean lots of snow melt which would have the waterfalls at Pillsbury Crossing running heavy. Then I had hoped the nasty cold weather that developed early Sunday morning would […]
Catching The Last Of The Sunset At The River Ponds
On Monday I made a post about photographing the beginning of what turned out to be an amazing sunset while out at Tuttle Creek Lake. I had left the cove near the marina on Tuttle and was headed back to the River Ponds area below the dam at Tuttle to try and catch a shot of […]
Bald Eagles at Tuttle Creek Lake
In my last post, I talked about photographing the beginning of an amazing sunset last Sunday (part 2 of which is coming soon!). I ended the day on Sunday with photography and I also started the day with photography. Sunday morning I was out at the outlet area of Tuttle Creek Lake to watch, and […]
Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay (sort of) and photographing sunset.
Photographs from the start of sunset at Tuttle Creek Lake, Kansas.
Nature Photography and City Parks
It is probably obvious that I enjoy being outside. I grew up spending time outside hunting and fishing and I have just always enjoyed being outside. This works out great with my addiction to photography, nature and landscape photography is a perfect outlet for me and a great excuse to get me “outside” (all those […]
Photographing the Kansas Wheat Fields
Kansas often gets stereotyped as having no landscapes other than one large wheat field. This isn’t quite accurate, but Kansas does have a large number of wheat fields and those fields produce a large portion of the US wheat supply. In fact, Kansas is normally the number one wheat-producing state in the U.S. and produces […]