Swedish Kansas Dreams - a photo on Flickriver

            Recently, during one of my aimless drives through the Kansas countryside, two farmers stopped to chat as I took photos of the Flint Hills, just west of Topeka.  We remarked about how beautiful the hills were, cloaked in their greenest finery, courtesy of the heavy rains we've been getting.  Eventually, one asked if I was aware of an area nearby where a few Swedish families settled in the 1800's, leaving behind a cemetery and some abandoned limestone buildings and walls.  Noting my camera, he thought I might be interested.  Little did he know that abandoned buildings were one of my favorite photographic targets.  I assured him I was indeed interested, and so he gave me directions that were somewhere between vague and specific, and off I went.  

It took me two hours to find the cemetery, but find it I did.  It wasn't the neglected, overgrown, and mostly forgotten place I'd envisioned.  It was kept up pretty well, and among the graves from 1880's there were also much more recent burial sites.  Many had Swedish sounding names, so I assumed I had found the correct cemetery.  I noticed in the distance a crumbling limestone house, which was my real target.  I took a few pics in the cemetery, and then grabbed my camera bag and tripod and hiked to the old house.  It was getting late by this time, and when I reached the old stone building, I figured I only had at most an hour before I lost the light, so I had to hurry.  Ideally, I like to wander around a site like this and get a feeling for the place before I start to think about what to shoot.  I had no such luxury here, so I hurriedly set up the camera, pointed and started shooting.

This particular pose was an afterthought, but it probably was the best shot of this session.  The color version came out well also, so I might upload that at a later date.

Taken in: United States / Kansas / Wabaunsee (show map)

Taken on: August 14, 2019

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Camera: Nikon D810, f/11.0, 1/250 sec, 35mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D810
Lens:	35.0 mm f/1.8
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.004 sec (1/250)
Focal Length:	35mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	-1 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Other
White Balance:	Manual
Light Source:	Fine Weather
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 6.14 (Windows)
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