A Fresh Pair of Eyes
Photographer Kristina Barker brings a fresh pair of eyes to Black Hills photojournalism. A transplant from the Bay Area of California, she’s been shooting for the Rapid City Journal for about a year now.
Her blog, http://kristinabarker.blogspot.com, recently featured several photos of Deadwood. She shot them during an assignment for the Journal. (I have to disagree with her assessment of Deadwood; you don’t have to look far to find .)
She’s also done a number of very interesting personal photos of the Black Hills and the surrounding plains — scenes I’ve driven by hundreds of times without giving a second look.
Kristina is young and has a great eye. I suspect she’ll be moving on in a few years.
Not too soon, I hope.
Dan Daly is an on-again, off-again Black Hills resident since 1978. The Aberdeen native hit the road after high school, building houses in Boulder, working oil rigs on Colorado's Western Slope, delivering cars in California. In Wyoming and Idaho, he worked as a newspaper journalist. But the Black Hills kept luring him back. For 18 years, he wrote for the Rapid City Journal. The job gave him a chance to see the Hills from atop Mount Rushmore and the bottom of the Homestake Mine. Whenever possible, Dan grabs his dog Kody and heads to the Hills. These days, he's perfecting the art of low-impact backpacking: hike two hours to a scenic spot, break out the wine, cook up the pasta, watch the sunset and fall asleep under the stars.
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