Small Town America: Winter in the Keweenaw Peninsula
As a lower Midwesterner, I thought I knew snow. Then I learned Kansas City rarely breaks 19 inches in a typical winter - a tiny fraction of what Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula gets each year. In late February, when I landed at the tiny, single-gate Houghton County Memorial Airport, where just two flights come and go...
Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge
I have been setting my sights on day trip destinations near Kansas City. I'm seeking places to branch out and shoot landscape and wildlife photography. I visited Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge in northwest Missouri, about 90 minutes drive north of the city. Loess Bluffs is a birdwatchers' favorite thanks to its terrain of wetlands...
Four Seasons of Loose Park Photography in Kansas City, MO
One landscape photographer pro-tip I received was to choose a place near your home that you can return to again and again, at all times of the year, at all times of day, for photography practice. It teaches you how to look at a place from so many angles and in so many circumstances with...