Country Stampede

Country Stampede is an annual country music festival that lures thousands of people from across the Midwest and it's held at Tuttle Creek State Park in Manhattan. This is a notoriously interesting event to shoot because of the huge amount of things to do. Besides the live music and big name headliners, there's rides, vendor booths, lots of drinking and partial-nudity, and of course the campgrounds.

Lots of party beads, men and women.

Joe Nichols

Lady Antebellum

Lady Antebellum

Lady Antebellum

Not an unusual sight at Stampede.

The flier.

Crying after the show.

Blake Shelton.

Brad Paisley's audience.

Reading Editorial Photo Illustration

I did my first photo illustration ever today! I wrote an editorial about the benefits of reading and the value of young adult fiction. I took the photo at the Dusty Bookshelf an used my soft box flash attachment then used the gradient map feature instead of the greyscale feature to turn it black and white in Photoshop.

Manhattan's Cozy Inn Opening Day

The highly anticipated Cozy Inn has finally opened in Manhattan. The hamburger shop originally opened in Salina in 1922 and is well known for serving greasy, delicious bags of sliders. The sliders are pretty simple, just meat, onion, pickle and a dab of ketchup. I'm sure this new (and cheap!) restaurant will be an Aggieville favorite in no time.

Owner Steve Howard starts the first burgers of the day on opening day.

The six stool counter.

Slider maker.

George Clinton and the Parliament Funk

Me and Matt went to the Smokey Hill River Festival this Saturday and we saw George Clinton. The put on a tremendously funky and awesome show.

Wine in the Wild

I had a hectic day of shooting yesterday because it was Manhattan day! I shot lil Weenie dog races in the morning, then later in the afternoon shot the Humboldt/18th Manhattan day get together BBQ (which was delightful), then finished off my day at the Wine in the Wild, Sunset Zoo's annual fund raising event.

Beautiful etched wine glasses.

Jace Carter • Baby Session

My very good, and old friend Irene asked me to take some photos of her niece Jace. We took these in Westin Gardens.