IT WAS cold—just a couple days before Christmas. So cold, in fact, that the blanket of fog draping itself over the Ozarks had actually settled into a frozen sheen on the needle points of the pine trees in this Ponca grove. It was quiet and it was still, the only sound permeating the silence emerging…
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In which we gave Ponca-based photographer Jeff Rose a Polaroid, eight frames of film and one take to get the shot.
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The say April showers bring May flowers. But all that rain also tends to bring out the best in some of Arkansas’ most beautiful natural features—our waterfalls. Lovely though they may be, it takes a certain kind of person to hit the trail during a downpour or to bushwhack through underbrush to find the falls flowing at full strength. But if you ask someone who does so on the regular—someone like nature photographer Jeff Rose—the ends more than justify the means.
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Daily, we drool over their Instagram feeds, wondering how these Arkansas photographers’ nature shots capture The Natural State so perfectly, so vibrantly, and ours … don’t. So we wanted to know: What does it take to get the shot?
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Tales from our state’s three thru-hiking trails—the Ozark Highlands Trail, the Ouachita Trail, and the Buffalo River Trail—and tips from those in the know on how to go the distance
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