Mitchell Heritage Prairie

At the end of last summer I learned about the Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie over near Wamego, Kansas. I made it over once last September to do some photography. The wildflowers were incredible, it was a very beautiful spot.
Several days ago I had the chance to go back while the prairie was being burned and do some more photography. That was a great experience! It was interesting to watch how the burn was done. I can't wait for the flowers to come back this year and I'm planning on being a more frequent visitor this year. Photos from my trip over last September and from this year's burn can be viewed at the links below:

Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie - Sept. 2009 Photos
Mount Mitchell Heritage Prairie - Spring burn

If you get a chance, I would recommend a visit!

Some Infrared Photos

Well since spring has apparently decided not to show up yet, I'm catching up on photos from last spring and summer. I've put together a few infrared photos from Konza, Marlatt Park, and Old K18 in this post. You can click on the link below to view them:

Kansas Infrared Photos

I'm using a new gallery for my photos, the first one should load full page. You can scroll through them using the arrows or numbers on the bottom of the page.

The first image (and the one shown above) is a shot of my favorite tree on Konza Prairie. I don't what it is about this tree, but it has a very majestic, peaceful feeling to it. I've photographed it many times and never felt like my photos were capturing the spirit of the tree. I think this infrared shot comes close though. The infrared really makes the tree standout and shows it's structure well. As soon as the weather cooperates I'm going to head to Konza and spend some more time with this tree.

Washington County

I was up at Washington County, Kansas this week doing some photography with my Dad. A cold front was coming in with snow forecast for the following day. We drove into some new territory and I didn't think we where going to find much to photograph, the clouds where interesting and the sunset was starting to show some nice color. I was starting to get a little frustrated that I couldn't find a place to stop and shoot. However, we found an old barn and homestead that provided some good subjects. You can click on the link below to view a few of my shots.

Washington County, Kansas

Catching up on photos

Despite vows to do otherwise, I've fallen behind on processing images. I made some progress catching up this weekend and I've posted some a my favorites of the photos I went through. You can view them by clicking the link below:

Photos from last spring and summer

I've also changed the format of the image gallery, let me know what you think of it.

Enjoy!

Wildcat Park

Last weekend I was at Wildcat Park with my photography class. This is a really nice little park. There are several lines of black walnut trees that were planted in a clearing which makes for interesting lines and shadows in the evening. I took this first photo facing down one of the rows of walnut trees.

After photographing some geese in the stream that runs along the edge of the park everyone started back towards the parking lot and some nice color started showing up with the sunset.

Near the parking lot the trail crosses a small stream which was reflecting the colors of the sunset.

Marlatt Park

I was out at Marlatt Park last weekend with one of my photography classes and we lucked into a great shooting situation. The light was pretty good with a decent sunset, but the best part of the evening occurred as the last group of students and I were leaving.








As we turned to go back up the trail we were greeted with this view of the nearly full moon rising above the horizon.
The moon is a lot brighter than many people think and it is often hard to get the moon properly exposed and still have enough light to retain detail in the foreground. However, between 1-3 days before the actual full moon is almost always a perfect time to balance the exposure between moon and ground as the moon rises and the sun sets. This happened to be the day before the 100% full moon. We were also in a perfect position on the side of a hill so as the moon rose higher in the sky, we were able to back down the hill and keep the moon close the horizon. This made for some great shooting.






























I think this last shot is my favorite from the evening:



Enjoy!

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