Badlands View
Badlands National Park, South Dakota
2016

I got the idea that this shot of the Badlands might look with a pen and ink drawing or etching look to it. This is the result of fooling around with it to that end.

Lectio #65
Helena, Montana
2016

Zebra Maze
Wichita, Kansas
2016

Spent Beauty #14
Wichita, Kansas
2016

The filtered light through the vegetation gave this leaf a glow like that of polished metal.

I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Wichita, Kansas
2016

Lectio #64
Wichita, Kansas
2016

I could have just as well called this “Reading About Gordon #2” because here my brother-in-law is perusing a book about Gordon Parks.

Reading About Gordon
Wichita, Kansas
2016

A woman pauses to read the description accompanying the photos by a rather famous native Kansan, Gordon Parks,  in a gallery at the Wichita Art Museum. By the way, this is the size of crowd I like to see when viewing exhibits at museums.

Free Autos
Wichita, Kansas
2016

Another case (see yesterday’s post) where by chance a yellow accessory to a mural really adds balance to the composition. Also similar to yesterday’s photo, this one is auto related as well.

Four-Hundred Years On
Wichita, Kansas
2016

Whoever parked the yellow car in front of this mural has an impeccable sense of composition. The mural, by Jordan Tarrant, is titled “99 Words and Phrases Coined by Shakespeare;” created I’m sure in honor of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death. I can’t imagine anything original I say today being common vernacular lasting 400 years. I wonder if old Bill had any idea his words would.

Just Me
Wichita, Kansas
2016

One last blackboard photo (promise). My sister decided to get in the act. She went for a photo-realistic portrait. I think it came out quite like the real thing.