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Colorado slide show (28)
These images are from the Crested Butte area and Estes Park.
Kansas Land Trust Conservation Easements slide show (78)
I support the Kansas Land Trust, A nonprofit organization that protects and preserves lands of ecological, agricultural, scenic, historic, and recreational significance in Kansas. I donate my images of their conservation easement properties for use in their newsletters, on their website (www.klt.org) and any other way they feel might help promote their mission. Over the past couple years, I have been privileged to meet a number of easement owners, all of whom feel they are actually caretakers of the land rather than "owners". All of these people have been most kind to me and have taken time to show me around the property they truly love and want to see preserved. I am indebted to them all.
Kansas, Flint Hills slide show (97)
The Flint Hills region is my favorite place to visit and to photograph. I've visited the Oregon Coast and the Rocky Mountains. I've seen fall color in the U. P. of Michigan, in Vermont, New Hampshire, Arkansas and the Adirondacks in New York state. I've seen spring in the Texas Hill Country and in Georgia. But for me, the Flint Hills of Kansas are where I want to be most. I feel at peace there. Nature essayist John Burroughs said, "I go to nature to be healed and soothed, and to have my senses put in order." That's why I visit them more and more often as the years go by. Out there, I am home.
Kansas, Flint Hills Ranch Rodeo slide show (64)
I'd never seen a ranch rodeo, so when friends invited me to come see their regional WRCA ranch rodeo in Council Grove, KS over the 4th of July weekend, I thought "why not?". I shot for a couple new friends I met at the rodeo, and others I took just because. I am already looking forward to going back again next year! One thing that really struck me watching the competition two nights is that there is no quit in any of these cowboys. The face shot of the cowboy with the tape on his nose & blood on his shirt was shot in the event following bronc busting. His horse had fallen on him and, I assume, broke his nose as well as causing assorted aches and pains. But the EMTs cleared him, and he participated in all the rest of the events seemly ignoring the pain he must have been in. Take a look at the image where the cowboy and his horse are both sideways & 3 feet off the ground. Would you believe the cowboy stayed in the saddle and rode the bronc to the time limit? He did!
Kansas, other areas slide show (66)
North Carolina slide show (12)
Odds and Ends slide show (12)
Photo Impressionism slide show (21)
Photo impressionism is an aspect of photography I enjoy when I'm in the mood to do something "non-standard". Some images I sort of know what they're going to turn out like. But I also like surprising myself with something I didn't expect. I burn a lot pixels, or in the old days slides, but usually end up with one I like from an outing.
Street Rods & Junkers slide show (235)
I enjoy talking with owners of hot rods and examining their creations. Like snowflakes, there are no two alike. Each owner puts a piece of him or herself into their cars and trucks. Photographing hot rods is a diversion from my usual nature work. I find myself often times concentrating on an isolated aspect that catches my eye, like I do when I'm shooting intimate landscapes & capturing a small segment of a scene. Rusty, paint-faded old carcasses are fun to photograph too. I sometimes like to "Ortonize" them to give the image a saturated, surrealistic effect.
U. P. of Michigan slide show (34)
Vermont slide show (23)
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