This Prairie

I’ve visited the Flint Hills of Kansas a few times now, inspired first by the sprawling detail of PrairyErth by William Least Heat-Moon and more recently by the thoughtful photography of Philip Heying. This was the first trip where I really spent time focusing the landscape, rather than the settlements. The Hills are remarkably green in late Spring, dotted with bands and fields of rocks, and they are far more lush than Nebraska’s Sandhills that I have oft-explored.

The weather didn’t always cooperate, but it still was an inspiring and productive trip.

Going to Kansas

One of my on-again-off-again projects that I have been working on for a few years is a collection of photographs of Kansas called Sunflower Blues. I have a loose framework for what it will look like in the end and I have enjoyed adding to it here and there when I have time for a short trip and want to stretch my photography muscles a bit. The photographs in the Blues capture the strange and colorful side of the state of Kansas.

These are the latest additions from this past weekend…

I'm not ready for an endless summer

I’ve begun working on prints for a group show this summer here in Omaha.

It feels good to start making large-ish prints (16x20”) of images from my Great Plains survey. Every image starts with a small work print to check color and make sure that everything is cohesive from print to print. Once everything looks good, a full size print is created. I will then mat and frame the print at a later date prior to the exhibition.

Check back for more information about the show as well as more behind-the-scenes details of the nuts-and-bolts of how creating an exhibition works.

Post title: Superchunk - Endless Summer

Where the sky is wide and the clouds are few

I headed south as March turned to April, looking for photographs in West Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas to add to my ever-growing documentation of the Great Plains region. The project now has a title - West of Here - and I’ll be showing selections from it starting in July here in Omaha.

Now it’s time to start printing and framing…

Post title: Guy Clark - Fort Worth Blues