I took a drive out to Mushroom Rock State Park in rural Ellsworth County to try my hand at some long exposure pictures. The subject I choose was the large rock on the south end of the park.
Here’s a couple of the pictures I took:
For the first time ever, Great Bend hosted a football jamboree with Hoisington and Scott Community High Schools. The jamboree is a preseason gathering of three or four schools to scrimmage against each other. In the past, most schools would hold a soap scrimmage. In a soap scrimmage, the varsity side would line up against…
One Saturday afternoon I took some time to tour the Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, Kansas. It houses an amazing collection of Wichita and aviation history. They also have some neat planes on static display. Below are photos of the planes on display there: [flickr-gallery mode=”photoset” photoset=”72157624945049727″]
Two Whooping Cranes stopped over at Quivira National Wildlife Refuge on their way to Texas last week. I took the opportunity Saturday afternoon to take my camera down and try to shoot some pictures of them. Thanks to the help of a birdwatcher with a big sighting scope, I was directed to where they stood….
The first baseball game I covered this year, was the second game of the night between the Halstead Dragons and the Larned Indians. This game proved to be a tight pitchers duel. No one scored until the Top of the 8th Inning. Those two runs gave the Dragons the game. Below are some of the…
While out driving K-96 this evening, I noticed a crop duster spraying some wheat fields between Olmitz and Heizer. I grabbed my camera and took some shots of him making some passes. The plane in the pictures is an Air Tractor AT-602. Below are some of the pictures I took:
With temperatures finally starting to feel like football weather, two teams squared off for a chance to play for a birth in the State Championship. The Valley Center Hornets came into Great Bend looking to clinch their most successful season in school history. The Great Bend Panthers wanted to keep the winning and playing at…
