Landscape Photography in Kansas

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I'm in Kansas -- not a highly popular destination for landscape photographers. But that's exactly why I'm here. While other photographers are lined up elbow-to-elbow at places like Mesa Arch and Horseshoe Bend, I'm photographing a landscape where there's not even a another human being (much less another photographer) literally for miles.

I'm just not interested in shooting those same overcrowded hotspots. This is my first time in Kansas and I have found it to be more scenic than I expected.

I expected a flat featureless landscape covered in wheat fields or corn. But there's more interest than I expected.

There are nearly-abandoned small towns.

There are a lot of abandoned ramshackle old farmhouses.

And there are landscape oddities, like these mushroom rocks.

Kansas was once home to the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kansa, Kiowa, Osage, Pawnee, and Wichita tribes. And man is it beautiful in a very different kind of way.

And, it still has a LOT of dirt roads, hence all that "dust in the wind."

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