A new single from my band about those narratives of fear that try and divide us, and make some feel like they don't belong. And how important it is to be the opposite... to make everyone feel safe. There's room at the table. Rest your heart in mine. Please listen. open.spotify.com/track/7wS0rd...

Kansas.

Around a thousand (my estimate) for the #handsoff rally and protest in Wichita, Kansas today.

Wichita, Kansas at the moment as all the red dirt from Oklahoma blows in. #kswx

Protesters gathered at Wichita State University Monday during an appearance by Kansas senator Jerry Moran. Moran entered and exited by car through a garage entrance, causing the protesters to push signs up against windows of the building when Moran entered.

A look at Kansas today. Could be anywhere in the state, tbh, but this photo was taken near Burns, Kansas. #kswx #winter

A table has been set up at Wichita's Eisenhower Airport for people to leave flowers and messages of condolence for the victims of American Airlines flight 5342.

I've been covering the news of the American Airlines crash here in Wichita, where the flight originated from. Some photos from a prayer vigil that was held this afternoon.

Shot some playoff football yesterday. Chiefs over the Texans in a freezing cold Arrowhead Stadium.

Somehow I doubled my followers today. So that's nice. Also, a beautiful snow fell across southern Kansas today, and I feel like sharing because we're seeing a lot of terrible images out of CA and like most, I feel a little helpless. So here's a reminder of the tranquility that's still out there.

Crows are really just flying honey badgers. They don't care. This one was determined to take a shot at this bald eagle's lunch. Along the Arkansas River near downtown Wichita, Kansas. #wildlifephotography #baldeagles

Wichita, Kansas around 10 a.m. #blizzard #blair #kswx #winter

Day 25 of sharing my favorite photos of 2024: I was asked during a speech in April what my bucket list thing to photograph was and my answer was the Northern Lights. In less than a month, on May 10th, it happened. 3 times I saw the aurora this year. But this was the first. #aurora #northernlights

Day 24 of posting some of my favorite photos from 2024: A wild mustang walks along a ridge at sunset in the Kansas Flint Hills. Several ranch properties in the Flint Hills rent pasture space to the Bureau of Land Management to house wild horses. #wildhorses #kansas

Lately the world feels kinda dark. So I made a documentary about something good that came from bad. A statue of baseball and civil rights pioneer Jackie Robinson was stolen from a youth baseball field and a community followed Jackie's lead in how they responded. www.kansas.com/news/local/a...

Day 23 of posting some of my favorite photos from 2024: Two members of the US Navy's flight demonstration team, The Blue Angles, pass over the McConnell Air Force Base airfield during a show in August. #blueangles #aviation #photography

Day 22 of posting some of my favorite photos from 2024: A car makes its way down a freshly resurfaced Hwy 44 near White River, South Dakota after a rain storm in July. #photography #SouthDakota #highways

Why paying for a newspaper (or real journalism) is worth every penny. Florida is no longer the Sunshine State. To get a public record, you often have to hire a lawyer.

Day 21 of sharing some of my favorite photos of 2024: Just two days after catching the winning touchdown in the Kansas Chiefs' Super Bowl win, Mecole Hardman, hands a drink to a young fan while working the drive through of a Raising Cains in suburban KC. #chiefs #photojournalism

Day 21 of posting some of my favorite photos from 2024. The city of Wichita, Kansas celebrates the ending of their annual River Festival in June. #fireworks. #photography

Day 20 of posting some of my favorite photos from 2024. The comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS can be seen in the western sky from a dirt road in Cloud County, Kansas on Oct. 13. Wishing a Merry Christmas to everyone... especially those that never stop exploring with a camera to create REAL #photography

Day 19 of sharing some of my favorite photos of 2024. The aurora of October 10th. An abandoned farm house along Highway 4 in McPherson County, Kansas. #Aurora #northernlights #photography #astrophotography #kansas

Day 18 of posting some of my favorite photos from 2024. I made a quick trip out to the PNW in October. Then rented a car and drove from Bellingham, WA to Wichita, KS. This was one of my stops. #oregoncoast #scenicphotography #photography

Day 17 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. The moon rises behind a church in Piqua, Kansas in September. #moon #kansas #photography

Day 16 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. To mark today's winter solstice, here's the Lower Fox Creek school house at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Kansas after a snowstorm. #wintersolstice #winter #kansas #snow #photography

Day 15 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. A stacked composite of over 170 long exposures to form a star trail at Coronado Heights in central Kansas. #astrophotography #kansas #stars #photography

Day 14 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. Lightning strikes the ground near the Kansas/Oklahoma border as a severe thunderstorm passes through. #kswx #weather #stormchasing #photography #kansas

Day 13 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. L'Jarius Sneed, a defensive back for the Kansas City Chiefs, takes a photo with fans in downtown Kansas City during the Chiefs' Super Bowl parade. #chiefs #football #photography

Day 12 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. Mammatus clouds hang over Wichita's Keeper of the Plains statue after a heavy thunderstorm passed over the city in April. #clouds #scenicphotography #weather #Kansas #photography

Day 11 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. A great blue heron plucks a fish out of the water near a dam on the Arkansas River near downtown Wichita, Kansas in June. #wildlifephotography #wildlife #birdphotography

Day 10 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. Stargazers watch the #northernlights from the Lower Fox Creek school house on the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in central #kansas on May 11. It was the 2nd night in a row the Northern Lights were visible in Kansas. #photography

Day 9 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. A bee collects pollen from a sunflower in Wichita in early August. #wildlifephotography #photography #bees

Day 8 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. Bob Moler's parents opened Moler's Camera in Wichita in 1946 and it's been a staple of the photo community in Wichita ever since. But this year would turn out to be the last. Bob decided to retire and close down the store. #photography

Day 7 of sharing some of favorite photos from 2024. Solar prominences can be seen shooting off the surface of the Sun during the April 8th solar eclipse. This photo was taken in Mountain View, Arkansas where totality lasted four minutes and 13 seconds.

Day 6 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. The body of firefighter Ty Voth is transported to a cemetery on a firetruck after his funeral. Voth collapsed and died while fighting a house fire in Haysville, Kansas.

Day 5 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. A car makes its way down a back road in the Kansas Flint Hills at sunset. Kansas doesn't have mountains or beaches, but it has beauty if you know how to look for it. #photojournalism #kansas #backroads

Day 4 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. A tornado forms just after sunset near Alta Vista, Kansas on March 13, 2024. #photojournalism #stormphotography #stormchasing

Day 3 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. Fans celebrate in downtown Kansas City after the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Fransisco 49ers in overtime to win the Super Bowl. It was the Chiefs' third Super Bowl win in five years. #photojournalism

Day 2 of sharing some of my favorite photos from 2024. Two relatives of the late artist Blackbear Bosin pose near his iconic "Keeper of the Plains" statue in Wichita, Kansas. The statue is a symbol for the city and honors the tribes of the southern plains.

Going to start posting some of my favorite snaps from 2024 over the next couple of weeks. Let's see if I can keep this going. Up first: An old one room school house in the Kansas Flint Hills after an early January snowstorm. #kansas #photojournalism

You’ll almost only ever see me post about photography in this space, but…. I do play drums in a band that performs original music. Here’s a lyric video for our song Ashes & Dust, which touches on the consequences of deliberately refusing to listen to one another. youtu.be/LbYoQh67fIs

Not sure what the photo capabilities of BlueSky are, so I'm uploading this biggie. A 360 degree panorama of the NYC skyline, shot by making my way around the observation deck of the Empire State Building. April 2023. (not great apparently, this 2nd attempt is scaled down) #newyork #NYC #panorama

It's been an exceptional year for pointing my camera(s) at the night sky. Kansas usually doesn't give like this, but it has this year. #timelapse #northernlights #astrophotography

I’m a photojournalist from Wichita, Kansas. Still looking for that better social media space. I also make some music and documentary films. #photojournalism #photography