Wichita Mountains Dam

Its always great to find an impressive dam and spillway in the wild, including this mass concrete example just off the Wichita Mountains Scenic Byway. Oklahoma, 2002.

Wichita Mountains Lake

The lovely clear water in this lake betrays the reality of the weed strewn lakebed. Located off one of the walking trails near the Wichita Mountains Scenic Byway. Oklahoma, 2002.

Wichita Mountains Landscape

Some lovely contrasting conditions in one of the lakes the dot the edge of the Wichita Mountains Scenic Byway. Saturday mornings don't get much better than this. Oklahoma, 2002.

Wichita Mountains Scenics

I love capturing these scene - a wide open aperture of an open landscape from behind a tree lined vantage point. Wichita Mountains Scenic Byway, Oklahoma, 2002.

Wichita Mountains Prairie Dog Crossing

This is one of the last stops on the road out west of the Wichita Mountains Scenic Byway. Its a great a great place to stop as you'll get a view of the many prairie dogs. Oklahoma, 2002.

Wichita Mountains Scenic Byway

My last image on the road heading west out of the Wichita Mountains Scenic Byway. The winding roads are photogenic anywhere in America, but no less so here. Oklahoma, 2002.

Wichita Mountains Scenic Byway

This is looking west outside of the Wichita Mountains Scenic Byway - and where the mountains start to give way to the apparently endless plains of the midwest. Oklahoma, 2002.

Rural Oklahoma

The endless plains of the rural Oklahoma landscape are actually very photogenic. In this case the static windmill was a nice break on the horizon - a modern look contrasting nicely with the old farmhouse buildings. 2020.

Oklahoma Windmills

Old and new in Rural Oklahoma. Some say the landscape is blighted by the windmills. They don't ruin it for me, but I don't live there. 2020.

Clinton Route 66

Neon lighting up the Clinton Route 66 Museum, Oklahoma. 2020

Washita Battlefield

Washita Battlefield. The site of an old Indian settlement. These days it offers a lovely walk in the gentle rolling landscape of south west Oklahoma, 2020.

Washita Battlefield

It will have been a very long time since this field was grazed upon, perhaps back to the days of the original conflict? Washita Battlefield, Oklahoma, 2020.

Backcountry Storm

You can see one of the forward ridges of an incoming thunderstorm over Cherokee, one that would juts rip through this area with some dramatic rain. Oklahoma. 2020.

Small Town Storm

This massive thunderstorm would sweep right over us in matter of minutes, almost before we could jump in the car - and it was an absolute cracker of a storm. Cherokee, Oklahoma. 2020.

Great Salt Plains Reflections

Only an hour earlier this landscape was being battered by an almighty storm, leaving this rather peaceful scene in its wake. For perspective, you can drive on these plains on a normal day. Great Salt Plains, Oklahoma. 2020

Salt Plains Sunset

Such a peaceful and magnificent rustic sunset - it was quite the contrast from an hour earlier when a massive storm swept through creating this water-laden scene. Great Salt Plains, Oklahoma. 2020

Cherokee Sunset

A beautiful sunset lights up the freshly charged greenery in the Oklahoma plains. A huge storm had passed through earlier. Taken near the Great Salt Plains Dam. 2020

Cherokee Sky

Cherokee sunset, near the Great Salt Plains, Oklahoma. This huge storm had only just started to batter this area, and we even had the nerve to take a left hand turn here, right into its path. 2020

Great Salt Plains Dam

A view of the downstream spillways at the Great Salt Plains Dam, Oklahoma. 2020

Great Salt Plains

We went for a walk around the Great Salt Plains Wildlife Refuge. This was adjacent to the man dam spillway structure. Oklahoma. 2020

Salt Plains Wildlife Refuge

Something of a baron landscape deep in the Great Salt Plains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma. 2020

Oklahoma Stockyard

This might have been the first ever cattle stockyard that I've seen, and this was in Cherokee as we moved ever further into the 'cowtown' region of the midwest. Oklahoma. 2020

Great Salt Plains

This was taken the day after a major thunderstorm had moved through the area and flooded these, the Great Salt Plains of western Oklahoma. This is quite the eye opening landscape, bang in the middle of the plains of the midwest. 2020.

Cystal Digging

The endless scour holes of the Great Salt Plains. Only, these are not scour holes, they are the remains of tourist crystal digging spots. Oklahoma, 2020.