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Jim Richardson
Hatteberg's People
Reporter: Larry Hatteberg
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March 11, 2007--Thanks to National Geographic Magazine, the Flint Hills of Kansas will be featured in a major cover story next month. And it is all from the work of a Kansas Resident – Jim Richardson – who just happens to be a National Geographic Photojournalist. |
“I didn’t want to get up at four this morning at all.”
“When you first start seeing pink on the clouds that pink will last three to five minutes maybe.”
Jim Richardson may be one of the finest photojournalists in the world….and he is a Kansan.
“Well, two years ago, I proposed to National Geographic that we do a story on the Flint Hills as part of our series of stories on the great American landscape.” |
That’s why the upcoming April issue of National Geographic is so special.
“I wanted people to understand that this is an incredible treasure and I was going to do whatever it took to get the images to bring that across.”
For years, Jim has been trying to capture the essence of the Kansas Flint Hills. |
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Now, after assignments all over the world….he believes he has.
“You can’t turn all the knobs and make all the magic. The world is the magic and being here at the moment is everything.”
“The Flint Hills whisper at you and you really have to listen and visually that means you just have to get in there with them and give yourself over to their pattern and their moods and then the images will start coming out.”
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And they did. Eleven-thousand pictures were taken by Jim for the National Geographic story….only a handful of course make it in --- and those that do….make us proud to live in Kansas.
“I know that in this stage of my life, the real pleasure of photography is being able to hold it up to put it in
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the gallery and put the velvet ropes around it and say…look at this, pay attention…this is neat stuff.”
The time of day, the patterns of light, the weather, that has to become your life.”
Jim Richardson – letting the world know about the secret we call the Kansas Flint Hills. |
Jim and Kathy Richardson own ‘Small World Gallery’ in Lindsborg. Currently, he is printing poster size pictures so that a traveling display will accompany the publishing of his story. The traveling exhibit will be displayed first in the rotunda of the Statehouse in Topeka and then will move on to the communities of the Flint Hills.
Small World Gallery
127 N. Main
Lindsborg, KS 67456
785 227-4442
smallworldgallery@mac.com |
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