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Rites of Spring

Every Spring in the Kansas Flint Hills there is a ritual of renewal that takes place as ranchers and farmers burn off their pasture land to make way for new growth. I drive down the prairie roads in the evening hunting the burns which can often be seen from miles away. The scenes can be mesmerizing.

Awards

Color Photography Contest

2024

Nominee

Landscapes

Professional

Rites of Spring

Every Spring in the Kansas Flint Hills there is a ritual of renewal that takes place as ranchers and farmers burn off their pasture land to make way for new growth. I drive down the prairie roads in the evening hunting the burns which can often be seen from miles away. The scenes can be mesmerizing.

About Artist

David Zlotky

My approach to photography springs from my years as a painter: experience that has forged my aesthetic as a visual storyteller. I’m not interested in the literal depiction of a moment in time as I would be if I were on an editorial assignment shooting for a news magazine. As a fine art photographer, I treat my images much like I would a painting. Digital tools have replaced my darkroom in which I spent many years, and pixels in my camera’s sensor have taken the place of grains of silver on film. I take great pride in the fact that my painting, “Picnic with the Travel Aire 1926”, has been acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum for its esteemed collection. Another of my oil paintings, this one of Georgia Neese Clark, the first female U.S. Treasurer, is housed in the Truman Library. Two of my paintings are also part of the Air Force Art Collection, based in the Pentagon. My fine art photography has been selected for inclusion in multiple juried shows, most notably at the Center for Fine Art Photography in Fort Collins, Colorado, and the MPLS Photography Center in Minneapolis. It also lives in numerous private collections and has been shown in commercial galleries in Kansas and Colorado.

David Zlotky

Photographic Areas of Focus

Domestic Animals, Film/Analog, Fine Art, Landscapes, People, Sports

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United States of America

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