Kansas Captured

“I take pride in showing beauty in very simple things and showcasing the beauty of Kansas. When I go out shooting, I like to move around and not stay in one spot very long. I also like to shoot early in the mornings, and this image was taken right at sunrise, so I had a small window of time when the sun was coming up over the horizon. I had remembered seeing this bald cypress tree before and how it stood at the edge of a camping spot. Of course, since it was winter, there weren’t any people or tents around, so I was able to get close to it and use a wide-angle zoom to capture this scene.”

—BRAD NEFF

Location: Perry Lake, Jefferson County Social Media: facebook.com/kansaswhisperskansasphotography

Brad Neff is an award-winning landscape photographer. For the past 12 years he has focused on his “Kansas Whispers” project of almost daily posts of four related landscape images, all of them taken in Kansas and most near his home in rural Shawnee County. He took this image with a Nikon DSLR using a 12–28mm wide-angle zoom lens.