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40 images Created 23 Jan 2017

The Kansas Prairie

I began my photojournalism career in Oklahoma and Kansas, marrying a wonderful woman from Wichita. Over the pasts four decades, I've come to know and love the wide open spaces of the western prairie. These images aim to share some simple vignettes that begin to depict it.
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  • Clouds and sun create a striking pattern over growing field of corn or maize.
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  • Clouds and sun create a striking pattern over growing field of corn or maize.
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  • Clouds and sun create a striking pattern over growing field of corn or maize.
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  • Kansas farmland scene south of Wichita.
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  • Clouds and sun create a striking pattern over growing field of corn or maize.
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  • Road leading to Waco Cemetery, established in 1870.
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  • The "Party Tree" stands against an August sunset on 95th Street south of Wichita.
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  • A lone, dead tree - once known as the "Party Tree" - stands along a dirt road and farm fields south of Wichita.
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  • Site of the former party tree on 95th Street south of Wichita.
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  • Field of wheat grows along 95th Street, south of Wichita.
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  • Hedge rows create a tunnel over 95th Street South near Wichita.
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  • Hedge rows create a tunnel over 95th Street South near Wichita.
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  • Horse farm along 95th Street South, near Wichita.
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  • Power pylons snake along Seneca, south of Wichita.
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  • August sunset and clouds south of Wichita, at the intersection of West and 103rd Street South.
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  • A winter field just south of Wichita.
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  • A winter field just south of Wichita.
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  • Wheat ripens in fields south of Wichita, near Waco, KS.
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  • Wheat ripens in fields south of Wichita, near Waco, KS.
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  • Milo sorghum ripens in the Kansas sun.
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  • A Garden City CoOp grain elevator rises from the prairie, against the dark cloud of a passing storm.
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  • Power-generating windmills rise from the prairie, against the dark cloud of a passing storm.
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  • A high-power line and its pylon poles rise from the prairie, against the dark cloud of a passing storm.
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  • A line of power poles and a Garden City CoOp grain elevator rises from the prairie, against the dark cloud of a passing storm.
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  • A Garden City CoOp grain elevator rises from the prairie, against the dark cloud of a passing storm.
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  • Spring flowers along Jackie's driveway.
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  • Horses in a small paddock.
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  • Horses in a small paddock.
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  • Horse near Waco cemetary.
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  • Barn with hay hook at Wichita Polo Center on S. Broadway.
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  • The weak remnants of a corn crop cover parched ground near Wichita, KS.
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  • The weak remnants of a corn crop cover parched ground near Wichita, KS.
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  • Late afternoon light glows on the prairie landscape south of Wichita.
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  • Grain elevators rise from the prairie near Meade, Kansas.
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  • August sunset south of Wichita.
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  • Late afternoon light glows on on a powerline and passing birds south of Wichita.
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  • Welcome to Kansas sign and grain elevator on U.S. 160 at Saunders, KS.
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  • Windmills dot the praire in groups of wind farms near Montezuma, KS.
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  • Windmills for power generation cluster near an old rail crossing outside Montezuma, KS.
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  • A flock of Canada geese fly over the prairie as a hot-air balloon tests a cold winter morning's sky over south Wichita.
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