Photo Book Review: Omaha Impressions

 Omaha Impressions, Photography and Text by Mike Whye, Far Country Press, Helena, MT, 2008.

This book offers a photographic journey into Omaha and its surroundings.  The book includes looks at open spaces, farms, green spaces etc., as well as looks at the buildings and skyscrapers of Omaha.  There is even snow boarder close in Iowa.  Pictures of waterways, lakes and ponds.  All presented in an artistic flare.  There is a picture of the gate at The Gerald Ford birthplace, covered in snow which is very nice to look at.  

There is a photograph of Mormon Hollow in Bellevue where the Mormons stayed for a few months on their journey west.  Pictures of uniformed men at fort Atkinson firing a cannon, and a picture of Fort Crook (now Offutt) in Bellevue.  

There are many picturs of statues including at Mormon Pioneer by cemetery by Avard Fairbanks and Martin Luther King down town by Littleton Alston, the pioneers by Blair Buswell at Pioneer Courage Park.  There are also views inside museums, Joslyn Art Museum and galleries, and Hot Shops Center.

Native American Art in the Gateway Arch Museum

 

pottery and necklaces

doll

art

More Temple Windows at Winter Quarters Temple

 There are 12 window murals in the south window of the temple.  They are each teaching a lesson about the immigration.  I was able to find nine pictures of the 12 on line.  The are much prettier in person with the light shining through them.  Some almost look like rainbows in the clouds.

The odometer to help measure distance traveled

Florence Mill

Brigham Young who lead the emigration

I assume Chief Big Elk who parlayed with Brigham Young near Cutler's Park

Handcart-- Didn't travel this way until 1856, 10 years later

Enlisting in thr Mormon Battalion

river crossing

More Art at Boys Town; He Ain't Heavy Sculptures

 I was surprised to discover that the He Ain't heavy sculture has changed.  But I guess it has changed several times.  Now the young man is carring a young woman, his sister.  The newest version was unvailed in 2017 for 100 year anniversary of Boys Town..  

Mural behind a building

marbles

current statue

older versions

art in the Hall of History

Winter Quarters Temple Stained Glass Windows

 Winter Quarters temple has some beautiful stained glass.  These pictures are viewing from the outside.  They are even nicer from the inside.

Boy's Town Dowd Chapel: Stained Glass Window Art, Statues, Father Flanagan Tomb

 If anything the Dowd chapel is a ork of art, with many expressions of art within.  The stained glass windows represent Jesus or Mary.   There are also statues.  The mood in the tomb are set apart by the color of light coming through the stained glass.  The organ loft is incredible.