Heading south

It's time for my last trek of the year, a few days on the road to visit places I've yet to see. At the moment, all I know is that I'm working my way south, likely to Oklahoma and wherever else I may end up over the course of this trip. Today was spent mainly on interstates, working my way south of Kansas City and down to spend a night in Joplin, Missouri. 

Some random thoughts..

It's hard to believe that it's almost November. The temperature was above 80 degrees for most of the day. Just about perfect.

If you've been wondering where all of the Trump yard signs are this election season.. They are all in Missouri. The biggest Trump / Pence sign I saw was in Liberal, Missouri of all places.

A boy on a little motorcycle in Hume, Missouri asked me what I was doing, then proceeded to stare at me while I walked around the downtown buildings. As I left, he sped up behind me and appeared to be taking pictures of my car with a smartphone. Never can be too vigilant, I suppose.

Commerce, Oklahoma tomorrow. A place forever burned into my consciousness after reading Mickey Mantle's biography in 5th grade.

Visited: Adrian, Merwin, Amsterdam, Amoret, Butler, Rich Hill, Hume, Amos, Stotesbury, Richards, Deerfield, Bronaugh, Nashville, and Jasper, Missouri.

Fall 2016 Print Sale: Fontenelle

I find myself with time to take off work between now and the end of the year, and would like to hit the road for a few (or more) days on a photographic exploration. You can help!

Exhibition prints from my Fontenelle series are available for only $100. Each is a one-of-a-kind black and white print on wonderful Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper. The prints are presented in white museum-quality mats and are ready to be framed in the 16x20" frame of your choosing. All materials are of archival quality.

If you'd like to support my travels but are not interested in a print, contributions of $25 and up are also accepted.

All print purchasers and donors will receive access to a special blog entry with pictures from the trip(s), many of which will not be shown publicly for many months following my return. This is a great way to see what I'm up to without waiting for my photo-a-day Flickr page updates. There is also a chance that a larger project will develop out of these travels and that the images would not be shared with the public until the project is exhibited.

To purchase a print or make a contribution, please email me at josephvavak@gmail.com. I will verify that your print choice is still available and send a paypal invoice for payment.

Please remember.. All Fontenelle prints in this sale are available on a first come first serve basis. This page will be updated as each image is sold.

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Photographs from a Sunday afternoon in southwest Nebraska before hitting the road home...

Lamar, a tiny place located a mile or two from the Colorado border off of US 6, marked the last town south of the interstate that I had yet to visit. This leaves me with just 9 more towns to visit on the official Nebraska highway map. One obsession leads to another, from a random photo project documenting Nebraska to visiting all 93 counties to exploring every single town.

Lamar, Nebraska

Trenton, Nebraska

Venango, Nebraska

Nothin' but blue skies from now on

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One last road trip before fall arrives, a quick tour of the southern border of Nebraska along US 136 and NE 89 to McCook. I'm crossing off the last few towns I've yet to visit south of I-80 and stopping by a places I haven't seen since my initial travels for ninety-three back in 2007. Returning to some of these towns, like Wilsonville, is like seeing an old friend, even if we only met for a very short amount of time several years ago. Not much changes in these parts.

Tomorrow I'm headed towards the Colorado border and then back home across the state. 

near Dorchester

Bloomington

Wilsonville

Visited: Milligan, Superior, Abdal, Red Cloud, Bloomington, Naponee, Harlan County Lake, Republican City, Alma, Orleans, Stamford, Beaver City, Hendley, Wilsonville, Lebanon, Danbury, Marion, Grove Cemetery, and Culbertson, Nebraska. Oberlin, Traer, and Herndon, Kansas.

Post title: Willie Nelson - Blue Skies