Category Archives: Nature

Symphony in the Flint Hills

Big surprise in the mail today.  A book, Symphony in the Flint Hills Field Journal, with one of my photographs in it.  A check, and two tickets to the Symphony in the Flint Hills event. Thanks! Infrared image of Kansas Clouds and Sky taken at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.

Infrared photograph of Kansas sky and clouds by Kansas City photographer Kirk Decker
Infrared photograph at Tallgrass Prairie Preserve by Kansas City photographer Kirk Decker

Nature’s Curves

There is are particular curves whose angles and arcs nature constantly repeats.  Beaks and wings of birds, flowers, faces, brains, and other parts of humans. Perhaps even our thoughts.  Experienced painters know this curve and nail it.  Inexperienced artists struggle with it, making flowers and faces that sound like out of tune pianos.  It’s probably just a fibonacci curve – here’s a pair of curvy hawks.

A Red-Tail Hawk photographed by Kansas City Photographer Kirk Decker
A Red-Tail Hawk photographed by Kansas City Photographer Kirk Decker