Pops. On Route 66

The Dairy Hut. Yale. 2015.

From the inside of the once-beautiful Shin’enKan.

Main Street, Yale, Oklahoma, 10 p.m. From 2015.

Waterlines from Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

I love spring in the Sooner State.

Photo taken at a spot, just to the southeast of Yale, Oklahoma.

Yale, as seen from Highway 51. From 2015.

Balloon Girl. From 1987.

Darby. From 2014

A young girl tries the watermelon from the Rush Springs Watermelon Festival. Taken in 2015.

Yale. Detail. 2015.

Another view of Shin’enKan.

From the woods, near my parent’s home.

Children smile on a ride at the Rush Springs Watermelon Festival.

Shot from the mid-1980s.

A young girl waits for her time to perform during a historical drama in Perry.

Another example of a portrait that isn’t formal. but that is telling.

Cowboy and Golden Buffalo football action.

More from my portraits of the past file.

Patterns form near downtown Yale.

Rural Yale. 2015.

Most of the time I photograph people but, on occasion I get to explore the abstract. I loved the texture of the sun-bleached paint on this wood.

Yes, I have a thing about fall.

Zach, the Tiger.

The mountains of Southwestern Oklahoma.

A young boy watch the Jerusalem Park celebration outside of Norman in 2008.

Robin Wertz of Exodus House.

A member of the OU Marching Band.

More from the same shoot.

Sometimes, even difficult assignments offer a little humor. Like this photo from the Westboro Church’s trip to Moore.

A buck deer, protected in a game preserve.

Sundown against some bare oak trees in Yale, Oklahoma.

A few years back, at the Ghouls Gone Wild Parade. The ambient red gave this shot a real unnatural feel.

A couple at the Winchester Drive-Inn, Oklahoma City.

A snow day. A sled and three kids. Perfect

Protestors wave signs during a visit by the Westboro Baptist Church.

My son BJ playing at the pool.

A back yard storage shed in Yale, Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial.

More OSU football. From the mid-1980s.

Bubbles from the 2007 Centennial Parade.

Participants in the Exodus House program listen to a speaker.

Robber’s Cave Park. 2007.

Ethan, when he was four. He’s in college now.

Zach and his dog, Max, play football. From 2014

Sledding is great. Towing the sled back up hill isn’t so great.

Zach, finally being good. From 2011.

Images from my hometown of Yale, Oklahoma.

My daughter, Sara’s graduation portrait.

A counter protest to the Westboro Baptist Church in Moore.

The snack bar at the Winchester Drive In.

A future ballernia practices at Quartz Mountain.

Another image of the bombing memorial.

Norman Christmas Parade. 2007

Shot at the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta.

Zach demonstrating why he loves having his photograph made.

Sometimes, even the biggest event doesn’t seem that important. A fact demonstrated by this woman who was more interested in her book that the state’s Centennial Celebration.