We are Preston and Anna of Surface & Surface Photography. We live in the middle of the Kansas prairies and Flint Hills. Photography has always been a favorite pastime and is a shared passion. Our focus is photographing all about Kansas and the Kansas Flint Hills in a variety of subjects and themes.
During the 1980s and 1990s we had a 35mm Minolta X-370 with various lens and filters. A heavy camera that was slung around the neck along with a big black bag filled with film and all gadgets hanging from the shoulder. Then we bought our first digital camera, fixed lens, 3.2 MP with a few nice features. We were able to take some really nice photos but the zoom wasn’t really a zoom, and the quality, depth, and precision wasn’t the best. We switched from being picture takers to photography lovers.
We love taking pictures of everything and anything… experimenting with composition, different apertures, shutter speeds, light and dark…and so many endless possibilities as serious novices. We primarily photograph animals, farm scenes, Kansas, landscapes, nature, pets, and still life…also art, events, objects, mixed-bag, and people. In color and black & white photography.
We are journeying and storytelling photographers.
We both each have SLR Canon Rebel XTi/EOS 400D cameras.
Preston’s lenses:
Canon EF-S18-55mm F3.5-5.6
Canon EF75-300mm f/4-5.6
Anna’s lenses:
Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Lens
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM Ultra Wide Angle Zoom Lens
Canon EF75-300mm f/4-5.6
PS: Check out our pages:
Preston’s Videos
Anna’s Mosaics
Journey with us and enjoy! Thanks for stopping by.
Preston & Anna Surface
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Continuation:
Every Picture Tells A Story
There is something about being in the wide-open prairies and hills of Kansas. Especially in the early spring when the trees have barely begun budding and the fields are controlled burned. It is like another world and hard to capture what it truly looks and feels like by camera. In the middle of this vast expanse of countryside with no other humans, no other vehicles, no power poles, and all is naturally rugged, with only the birds and wildlife, one feels the enormous universe about them.
Preston and I reveal stories through our photographs and without too many words from us. Photography is visual storytelling. When we go out on photo shoots, we creatively capture hundreds and hundreds of shots and spend up to a day photographing. Out of our batch of photos from a day’s shoot, only a selected few make it for show and tell. Our photography isn’t about point and shoot. Our photography is about what we feel with the camera and providing a view of a small part of the universe, which is Kansas, that we capture in a moment in time.
We’ve been out in the countryside photographing when our truck decided to not start. Twice. We’re lucky in that we have someone whom we’ve known for years who owns a vehicle body and repair shop. He is a master mechanic and he comes and gets us out of our fixes even in the middle of nowhere. The pictures above were taken on a rutted, un-maintained, dirt road. Right before we discovered the truck wouldn’t start. After our truck was fixed, the battery this time and the alternator before, we were right back out there capturing photographs. Because we love photography and the magic and wonder of it all when we are out shooting.
There is way more than just what we capture in photographic images which tell their own stories. It is our stories layered within it, all that is many times not expressed by words with the photos. Our stories are what we treasure and carry within our heart memories. What I love about our photography is that we capture our journey and we present it here on our photoblog. We can look back to where we’ve been and what we experienced. Preston and I are a work in progress with our photography as we learn, experience, feel, and grow… and it is wonderful, indeed. This is what we convey in all the photographs we publish on our photoblog. Every picture tells a story…
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Surface & Surface Photography founded January 3, 2008.
Updated: April 19, 2008
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