Overland Park, KS (III)

Here is a selection of new images from my continuing series about Overland Park, Kansas, where I live.

Overland Park has been consistently ranked in the top 10 best cities to live in the United States, by CNN/Money magazine. Additionally, the city was ranked one of the ‘best places to raise your kids’ and also ranked 3rd for ‘America’s 10 best places to grow up’. As a photographer this news comes as an inspiration and something of a shock to me and I have decided to explore what it is that gives Overland Park this status.

Bass Pro & Cabelas (II)

Bass Pro & Cabelas (I)

Cabelas



Hearing aids, Cabelas

Bass Pro



Fishing Tackle

Trapper, Cabelas

Decoys, Bass pro

Gun Library, Cabelas

Bass Pro and Cabelas are both massive and popular national American chain stores specializing in the selling of outdoor, hunting and fishing gear. Everything and anything, from Guns, Boats, Fishing Tackle, Camping Gear and Outdoor Clothing can be bought there. Services such as trophies and taxidermy are also available and the knowledge of the staff is extensive. Recently I made a visit to two of these stores and I was both impressed and overwhelmed by their extensive selection of guns and other weapons and their often gruesome displays of dead animals, which are exhibited throughout the stores in pride of place and posed in dramatic and realistic postures and environments. They are places where I am looking forward to making lots of new work.

Salina, KS II (Vertical)

Here are a few more images I made on my trip to Salina, Kansas.