Photographs from an autumn weekend spent exploring the sandhills of Cherry County.
Post Title: Kent Haruf - Plainsong
At the end of the song, so long
Photographs from one last trek this year to the expanse of the Great Plains in the Dakotas, Montana, and Nebraska.
Post title: The Promise Ring - Say Goodbye Good
Blue in Green
Photographs of Nebraska’s Sandhill region, many made on one-lane blacktop roads listening to jazz and thinking of what’s to come.
This may or may not be the start of something new.
I experimented with a telephoto lens to take landscape photographs for the first time in many years in an attempt to isolate some of the details of the landscape. The Sandhills are a fascinating place, full of subtle variations in color and shape, but I have always struggled to capture them in a way that does all of this justice. Time will tell if I find success or not.
Enjoy!
Post Title: Miles Davis - Blue in Green
I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found
Back in June, I spent a few days in North Dakota visiting many new places and some I had been inspired by on a previous trip during the spring of 2013, places like Antler, only a few miles from a very quiet Canadian Border, and Devil’s Lake, a natural phenomenon that has grown exponentially over the last few decades due to changing climate. The weather spent almost the entire time I was on the road threatening to due something but politely holding back when I needed it, for the most part.
All of these images are part of a yet-untiled Great Plains project that is taking shape in my mind with photographs from the past decade of wanderings. I think I’m nearing the point that I will call the making photographs portion of it done, and then I’ll focus on making something out of it for a book and unveiling at a group show at Gallery 1516 here in Omaha next year.
It’s just about time for something new. What that is and how that works - I am not entirely sure. That’s the (mostly) fun part of all of this and why I’ve kept at it for a good 15 years so far.
Post title: John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley: In Search of America