Monday, January 18, 2010
Kansas Country
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I grew up in California, so photographically speaking Kansas has been something of a challenge for me... at least until recent years.
With more rain and milder summer and autumn weather, the Kansas I have lived in for more than two decades is changing. Brown fields under piercing-clear blue summer skies have been replaced with green fields filled with wild flowers that bloom well into September.
Photographically, this means richly clouded blue skies over lush, green, meadows liberally sprinkled with wild yellow sunflowers, other daisies, and other wild flowers.
If this weather change persists, then Kansas' new policy of less frequent and more conservative mowing along country roads should combine to make Kansas country a destination for photographers interested in scenic landscape and wild flowers.
And of course, this landscape is populated with an abundance of livestock which are also featured in many of these images.
Kansas country images obtained mostly during the last two autumns in south central Kansas are posted on my Kansas Countryside Gallery. Some of these will be on display at the Up Front Gallery, 412 East Douglas (near the northeast corner of Douglas and Topeka), for the January 2010 Final Friday crawl in Wichita. 316 262 2435.
The image at the top of this post is an unpainted barn near Augusta, Kansas.
Labels: barns, countryside, Kansas, livestock, pasture, sunflowers, wildflowers
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