Keeper of the Plains
Aug 10, 2020 09:19:09 #
OneShot1
Loc: Wichita, KS, USA
Drone shots of downtown Wichita, Kansas, featuring the iconic statue "Keeper of the Plains", by Native American (Kiowa-Comanche) artist Blackbear Bosin. It is at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers (pronounced Ar-Kansas in our area). Some evenings the pedestals are lit with fire, forming a ring of fire around the base of the Keeper...but alas not tonight.
The Keeper is made of Cor-ten steel, natural rust color, and is 44 ft tall, standing on a 30 ft rock pedestal. There are pedestrian bridges over both rivers. A sidewalk to the west leads to the Mid-America All Indian Center, which is a museum and pow-wow location.
These are frame grabs from the drone's 4K video, processed in Photoshop Elements and NIK Viveza. Shot around dusk on 8/6/2020. I didn't record the drone height, but probably 150 ft. The drone is a Contixo F24. In photo #2, at the far left, just above the bridge entrance is my 87 year-old father-in-law on a bench (orange dot), and I and my nephew are the dots on the grass between the power lines pointed at by the little light pole. Arkansas river on right and Little Arkansas on left, looking east.
The curvy building is "Exploration Place" which is a children's science museum. Other sites (in photo #2): L to R: Black cube is City Hall, Red/White is a power station, pointy building is the Epic Center, tower straight down river used to be a Holiday Inn, but is now apartments and offices, immeditely right are two Garvey buildings, the red brick is the historic Broadview (now Drury Inn), Exploration Place, the gray tower is the Hyatt Hotel, and kind of run together are the City Library various apartments, and the new $78 million, baseball stadium, which has yet to see a game due to Covid-19.
Behind the Holiday Inn is the Eaton Hotel where Carrie Nation chopped up the bar to protest Demon Rum. The area around the library and ball field is called Delano. That side of the river was the Wild West. Wichita, on the east side of the river was "civilized" and all the rowdy activities for the cowboys were in Delano. Wyatt Earp (a famous cowboy law-man) was a deputy here before moving on to Dodge City and the Tombstone Arizona for the shootout at the OK Corral. There are many other Cowboy Days relics in Wichita.
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The Keeper is made of Cor-ten steel, natural rust color, and is 44 ft tall, standing on a 30 ft rock pedestal. There are pedestrian bridges over both rivers. A sidewalk to the west leads to the Mid-America All Indian Center, which is a museum and pow-wow location.
These are frame grabs from the drone's 4K video, processed in Photoshop Elements and NIK Viveza. Shot around dusk on 8/6/2020. I didn't record the drone height, but probably 150 ft. The drone is a Contixo F24. In photo #2, at the far left, just above the bridge entrance is my 87 year-old father-in-law on a bench (orange dot), and I and my nephew are the dots on the grass between the power lines pointed at by the little light pole. Arkansas river on right and Little Arkansas on left, looking east.
The curvy building is "Exploration Place" which is a children's science museum. Other sites (in photo #2): L to R: Black cube is City Hall, Red/White is a power station, pointy building is the Epic Center, tower straight down river used to be a Holiday Inn, but is now apartments and offices, immeditely right are two Garvey buildings, the red brick is the historic Broadview (now Drury Inn), Exploration Place, the gray tower is the Hyatt Hotel, and kind of run together are the City Library various apartments, and the new $78 million, baseball stadium, which has yet to see a game due to Covid-19.
Behind the Holiday Inn is the Eaton Hotel where Carrie Nation chopped up the bar to protest Demon Rum. The area around the library and ball field is called Delano. That side of the river was the Wild West. Wichita, on the east side of the river was "civilized" and all the rowdy activities for the cowboys were in Delano. Wyatt Earp (a famous cowboy law-man) was a deputy here before moving on to Dodge City and the Tombstone Arizona for the shootout at the OK Corral. There are many other Cowboy Days relics in Wichita.
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