Photography Trip Planning Tools
I am enamored with the Southwest landscape, but live in Eastern Kansas, the town of Leavenworth to be exact. This of course meant, if I wanted to photograph that spectacular Southwest scenery, it would entail a 2,000 miles plus roundtrip excursion. Realizing that a trip to those scenic sites wasn’t close by to allow […]
Website Upgrade
All good things eventually result in a change. This website had to undergo this situation. While I was content using the Photography WordPress theme by Themegoods, a WordPress upgrade caused the theme to crash. The intrigue tied to using the Elementor drag and drop web creation environment to revamp the Johnson County Camera Club’s website […]
A Post Super Bowl KC Blue Hour
The Saturday evening after the Super Bowl the Kansas City lights proudly glow in red to celebrate the Chiefs achievement. This image was taken atop the National World Ward I Museum and Memorial on the Liberty Memorial Tower’s patio on the Northeast side. This was a very crowded situation with both photographers and social media […]
A Tree Frames The Cathedral
When bad weather deviated my plans to visit the Wave, I retreated South to Sedona to photograph a few locations. Taking a picture of the Cathedral Rock was one of the prime subjects I wanted to capture. Research showed that along the Upper Red Rock Loop Road there were several scenic overlooks that were popular […]
Cathedral Rock Reflection
📍 Photographing Cathedral Rock: Reflections, Timing, and Terrain Cathedral Rock at sunset is a siren call for many photographers—but capturing a strong composition requires more than pointing a camera toward red rock glory. This post dives into the how behind one image: from scouting and timing, to gear setup and visual harmony. 🗺️ Scouting from […]
Forever Young
This image is part of my mirror project, where I attempted to use a mirror as a prop for a portrait to meet one of the category with my photography club year end photo contest. In this case, the category was “How I see myself”. This image is a composite of two images, one of […]
Mirrored Reflection
This image is part of my mirror project, where I attempted to use a mirror as a prop for a portrait to meet one of the category with my photography club year end photo contest. In this case, the category was “Three”. This image is a composite from three images. The inner image is one […]
Infinite Me
This image is part of my mirror project, where I attempted to use a mirror as a prop for a portrait to meet one of the category with my photography club year end photo contest. In this case, the category was “Reflection”. This image is a composite of the same image repeated five times. The […]
Great Sand Dunes Site Guide
Summary Experience the photographic opportunities year-round at the tallest dunes in North America. While the dunes are the centerpiece, the preserves are a diverse landscape of grasslands, wetlands, conifer and aspen forests, alpine lakes, and tundra offering photographers a plethora of photo opportunities. At night photographers can enjoy a startling starry sky on moonless nights […]
Photography Options for Cathedral Rock
One of the dominate geological features found in the Sedona area is the ever popular Cathedral Rock, which is often used as a wedding photo shot backdrop and a location where numerous day hikers climb to take one or two breath taking Instagram photos from between the two pinnacles. In the winter of 2021, in […]