A good afternoon at the Bird Runner Wildlife Refuge

(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 […]

Its not spring until I smell the smoke: controlled burns of the Flint Hills

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 […]

Wandering through Wabaunsee County, a guided tour

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 […]

A new waterfall (and a big one!)

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 […]

250 miles and 4 gigs later (or, how lost can three Post hole Diggers get?)

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 […]