KS Roadside Attraction

Gallery: NAD 2009Posted October 5, 2009262 views5 comments

Sunday NAD day, I found myself deep in the heart of Kansas returning from the opening of the Kansas Park Trust show: Visions of the Flint Hills, a show benefiting the Tall Grass Prairie Preserve. I was fortunate to have had two of my prairie grass images juried into this show. Never one to waste an opportunity to photograph I planned a weekend of work in the central part of the state as I returned from KC. My main plan was to photograph the full moon set at Cheyenne Bottoms wildlife area, but Sunday morning mother nature had other plans: total cloud cover and no moon or sunrise light! As I headed home the heavy cloud cover started to give way and provided some really nice diffuse soft light and the grasses along the road where just wonderful. As many of you know I have a special love for photographing grasses and so I pulled over. I was in heaven as I found several nice compositions with this image being one of several I will print and add to my portfolio. So from what turned out to be a bust at sunrise turned into an opportunity and fed my passion for making images of the natural world. It was a good day!

D700
Nikor 24 PC_E
RAW process in LR and CS4

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Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on October 5, 2009 at 2:52 PM

Nice mix in the mix here, Great colors and textures

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Comment posted by John Williams on October 5, 2009 at 3:47 PM

It seems like nature doth provide, just not always what we expected! Very nice layer of grass.

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Comment posted by Angela Classen on October 5, 2009 at 4:42 PM

Congrats on the juried show. Your grassland photos are certainly deserving. Grasslands tend to be overlooked for their beauty, but you've got a knack for finding it and conveying it through your photos.

This is another wonderful image. I really like the differing textures and colors in this shot.

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Comment posted by Floris van Breugel on October 7, 2009 at 4:52 PM

Beautiful lines and colors here Steve. For the web version it looks a hair over sharpened, the primary result of which is an emphasis on the edges, and reduced saturation (I think) - in any case, very nicely seen.

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Comment posted by Morris McClung on October 8, 2009 at 12:33 PM

Enjoyed your story and your layers and textures here are sublime.

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