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At the Phillipsburg, Kansas 2007 Rodeo. Wish I had a larger file of it. I didn’t have a computer at the time and the file was made smaller to not take up too much space on my dad’s palm pilot. I should of have him save it to a cd but I don’t think he could of from work.
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Fredonia Kansas, USA - Not a ghost town yet!
by kathleenI have the pleasure of having met the acquaintance of Patricia Ballard from North Carolina t…
I have the pleasure of having met the acquaintance of Patricia Ballard from North Carolina through RedBubble. We first started chatting when she became concerned that photos of her home town in Kansas would be considered ‘snap shots’. I went to find them laid out in her portfolio in a educational and fantastically informative format. It gave me an insight into an aging, ailing town in a place that I only know about through their tragic tornado weather and brief media experiences. So I asked Pat if I could learn more about her travels. Originally from New Mexico she seems to be darting all over that ‘big nation’ in our conversations, but she tells me of her very old ‘mom’ who’s eyes are failing. She won’t leave Fredonia because she is there and wants to stay, so Pat is driven home to a town that won’t give up the ghost just yet. With homecoming festivals, cheerleaders and big pickup trucks. Red, white and blue banners and the one and only ‘class of 1967’, Fredonia has recently survived a heartbreaking flood and the reality of an aging population against the new millennium. Here is Patricia’s story of her ‘homecoming’ to her childhood and her past. The sadness of progress is one that many face when the ‘wheels of change’ and political, social and largely economic forces squeeze for all it’s worth, but there’s still something left way over there in that little place that I will most likely never ever lay real eyes on… there’s the recipe of ‘class 4h’. Thanks for the collaboration Pat and thanks for letting me play with your photos.
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Image by photographer Glennis Siverson, www.glennisphotos.com. Captured in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Canon 5D with 17-40 mm lens mounted on a tripod. I also used a Canon EX580 flash and fired it twice, off the camera without any TTL or other readings, holding it off to the right of the image above.
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Just a lovely work of architecture.
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Taken at the PCC Model shoot Pakenham Camera Club
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Beautiful day, beautiful barn
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Kansas, 1934
by asd25Look back across the years, and you will see us. See each moment as clear and self-contained as a raindrop before it hits the earth and …
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Oil on canvas
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The churches in Kansas are monoliths. I’d forgotten how large they all are.
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Can you find the tornado in this photograph? Look at the larger image and study the lowering beneath the storm carefully. There is a needle shaped tornado dancing it’s way across a field of grasshoppers and sunflowers in the Kansas prairie near the town of Protection. This is an extremely wide-angle shot, I have “leveled out” some of the distortion created by the fisheye, but not too much as to ruin the shot. I personally love how the inflow band appears to be tracking directly above the highway and leading right into the heart of the spinning dragon of the Great Plains. This storm was truly remarkable and produced several tornadoes for all those who came to watch.
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Along the Missouri River back in 1993…....viaducts upriver broke flooding all the lower farm land…tearing up railroad tracks for miles. / At times I could sit above the river and watch dead cows/horses/goats floating down….other days I’d see coffins from washed out cemetaries. So much destroyed that year….Always be greatful if u live on higher ground! (hint hint New Orleans!)
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When he stood up and gave me a hug, it was really hard for him because he said he had bad ankles. His beard was really scratchy but he gave warm hugs. He told me to not let go too fast. When we first started walking too, I was kind of skeptical. But when we sat down I felt like I was in a really comfortable aura. He was a really nice man and had so much he wanted to say.
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Being Traumatized in Kansas
by Patricia L. BallardAs every good Kansas child knows tornadoes are not something to ignore. Stormphotonet’s pictures have inspired me to write about one of m…
As every good Kansas child knows tornadoes are not something to ignore. Stormphotonet’s pictures have inspired me to write about one of my Kansas bad weather experiences. After she was widowed for the second time, my grandmother moved from Edmund, Oklahoma to Fredonia to be closer to our family. Now, my grandmother was a Home Economics teacher and quite a beauty for most of her life. Along with her beauty came a load of insecurity about her looks. She would never let herself be put in any situation where she would be seen without makeup and very high style clothing. Her grandchildren all called her Mawzie as my sister, the oldest of our generation, was unable to pronounce grandmother as a toddler, and somehow Mawzie became the family word for grandmother. When she moved to Fredonia, she bought a house two doors down the street from my parents house. Unfortunately, it resided on Button Creek, and all of the houses on the creek were subject to flooding and being struck by lightening. When I was 6, the highlight of my week was to spend Friday night with my grandmother at her house. This particular Friday night, we were asleep, but heard the tornado sirens start up. When those sirens started up you moved! It wasn’t raining, but I remember a terrific thunder storm. I got up dressed and was sitting in the living room waiting for Mawzie to finish getting ready, so that we could hurry down to my parents basement as the houses on the creek didn’t have basements. I was sitting in a chair directly across the room from the wall phone. All of the sudden, there was a horrible crack of thunder, and ball of fire flew out of the phone and rolled across the living room rug toward me. A second later my mother burst through the front door wearing nothing but her nightgown, grabbed me by the arm and took off running. My feet didn’t touch the sidewalk the whole way home. To get the full importance of this move on my mother’s part you have to realize that she’s not a person to move or exercise. She’s spent her whole life avoiding any sort of physical exertion. She certainly wasn’t a person to run around town wearing nothing but a nightgown. Fifty years later I can still feel her grip on my arm as she dragged me down the street. No tornado that night, but that ball of fire still haunts scares me.
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I saw this dramatic tree sitting in a grassy hilly area, and immediately thought “oh, what a great black and white shot!”. When I started editing it, it adjusted the curves a little bit and out came a really nice dynamic range with saturated colors. Needless to say, I liked the color shot more than the black and white shot.
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Dusk on a Kansas farm with a supercell thunderstorm in the background.
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A powerful nighttime supercell erupts with lightning near Greensburg, KS in May of 2007. Image was captured using diffuse filters with a D70, exposure time was 30 seconds.
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This is another Fredonia mural that was discovered and restored when the building next to it burned down. Homecoming Parade
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This very well may have been the prettiest storm to witness during the 2007 season in the Great Plains. Taken near Hill City, Kansas on May 22nd, this incredible beauty spun its way towards our tour group and provided us with a show of a few brief tornadoes. Everyone has their reasons for storm chasing, for me seeing these sculpted bases below a massive mass of fluent vapor is what it is all about. These are the types of storms that you walk away from with hurting “shutter finger”. There are also a few lightning photographs here in my portfolio from this same exact storm after the final glows of the sun set behind the horizon.
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The edges of the flag are slightly tattered from the wind. It seems an apt comparison to the country in general these days.
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This wagon is part of the “Little House on the Prairie” exhibit located near Independence, KS, just off of Highway 75. During “non-weather days” that occur while we are conducting our tornado tours at Violent Skies Tours, we often will travel places such as this for the learning experience, as well as any photo opportunities that we might find. This photo was taken on one such day. The Little House on the Prairie exhibit is owned by A&E Television’s Bill Kurtis. Mr. Kurtis is originally from this area (and so am I), in fact the land the exhibit is on has been in his family for many generations. After doing some research on the property, his family learned that their land was actually settled and used by the Ingles Family when they moved to Montgomery County (Indian Territory) in September of 1869. This was learned with the discovery of a hand dug well on the property, which was dug by Charles Ingels himself. The Kurtis Family then found other buildings and structures in the nearby area that the Ingels would have used, such as a schoolhouse/church, prairie house and post office and had them relocated to the property for preservation and to educate the public about the Ingels experiences while they lived in SE Kansas.
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In our little town of 200 fine folk, wheat harvest is the biggest event of the year. This photo is pretty typical of a late spring day, maybe a storm coming, maybe not. Never know in Kansas. We are fortunate that our area of the state is not flat, has rolling hills, and trees that the farmers work around, rather than removing for ease of plowing, harvesting, etc. Truly a beautiful area of the High Plains.
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