Rediscovering a home on the range through Nebraska landscapes

From the Monday Washington Post.

Rediscovering a home on the range through Nebraska landscapes

Writer Nicole Crowder @nicolemcrowder December 1 at 7:00 AM

After 30 years of working as an award-winning photographer for Sports Illustrated, Bill Frakes traded basketball courts and football fields for the open ranges and expansive landscape of his native Nebraska. Frakes began sharing photographs of sunbursts cutting through bright blue skies and mighty clouds rolling over red clay rocks via Facebook, and today–along with partner Laura Heald– launches a year’s worth of photographs he has amassed on a Web site called The Nebraska Project. In the excerpt below, Frakes describes for In Sight his work and his lasting love for Nebraska’s natural beauty.

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I’ve been to 138 countries and every U.S. state. Nebraska is the gold standard. There is no better place to make photographs. The light. The diverse topography. The open, friendly people. This place is stunningly beautiful, and powerfully raw. From the plains to the badlands the landscape is varied and rich. The word sublime was invented to define The Sandhills. Underneath it all runs the vast Ogallalla Aquifer which provides water for 20 percent of the corn, wheat and cattle produced in the United States.

This is the place my thoughts turn when I need comfort, or inspiration.