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I spent the weekend scouting the Wetland & Wildlife Byway, Prairie Trail Byway and Flint Hills Byway. Love being out on the road.

Cool. I had several photos included in the June issue of Midwest Living. It’s a Kansas story called “Shoulda’ been a cowboy.”

It’s been a very long time since I spent an entire evening exploring new ways to finish photos in Photoshop. I rediscovered several old actions and found some new ones, too. It was fun to be “more adventerous” with color, tone and contrast. I still have some work to get where I’d like the look to be, but I’m pretty happy with some of the pics. The donkeys are a good story that will be covered in a future post.

We recently got a new project to do videos and photography for all of the Kansas Byways. I’ve knocked out scouting trips for three of the byways this week (Native Stone, Flint Hills and Glacial Hills). My photo buddy Mike Snell went along for a Glacial Hills Scenic Byway ride yesterday. We started at the Leavenworth Landing at sunrise, then north to Atchison, Troy, and ended the byway at White Cloud.

On the way back we discovered some real photo treasures (that we’ll keep secret for now). Good thing Mike brought along his county maps or we might have gotten lost (and run out of gas). We finished the day at one of my favorite Douglas County sunset spots – the dam at Clinton Lake.

I used all kinds of photo/video tools and apps to document the day. Looking forward to hitting the road again very soon.