Bison Bison

Today I went to the Konza Prairie research area and had the opportunity to shoot some of the bison. There are about 350 head of bison over 2500 of the prairie's 8500 acres. They were originally introduced to the research area to examine the impact of both fire and grazing on grassland. This particular bison was the largest one in the group I came across.

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.

Konza

These are some shots I got out on the Konza as the sun went down.