Apartment Fire

This lady and her baby were trapped on the top floor of their apartment building as a basement apartment burned, filling the halls and stairways with smoke.


The fire fighter took the baby from the woman then went back to assist her out the window.

SK8about

Before leaving K-State for break I went on a photo/skating adventure around campus. I love going on walkabouts for photos and it's a great way to relax after a busy semester. This shot is of a fired up outdoor kiln.


I had worked my way into a bush to get a detail shot of the branches when all of a sudden a big flock of birds flew up and landed in the bush.


This is a silhouette of a pair of seeds against a sun set.

Up in smoke

I was riding around with a friend, Joel, shooting stuff for a PR assignment about irrigation and water stuff in the land North of Manhattan and came across this fire. I wanted to shoot it then I saw the guy starting the fire and HAD to shoot it. The flames were SO HOT! At one point a turkey flew out of the flames, sadly I didn't have my telephoto handy, but this shot came out so well I don't mind.

Star trails by fire light

Another photographer, Sara, and I went cruising around looking for a place to do star trails one night and once we got around the Tuttle Creek lake we noticed that on the other side of the lake there were prairie fires so we set ourselves up across the lake from them. We were worried that the fire might blow out the trails but wanted to give it a shot anyway and it ended up working out really well.