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Friday, December 2, 1988/University Daily Kansan
Dan Dancer, a freelance photographer whose photos have been published in the United States and in Europe, has published a book on unusual sites in Kansas.
Photographer's book features landscapes, people of Kansas
Hidden within the wheatfields, farms and open pearries of the Midwest is a tranquil beauty often overlooked. But through his camera lens, Dan Dancer has prepared evidence of that part of the United States.
By M. Meredith Relph
Karen staff writer
Kansan staff writer
sented the grandeur of that part of the United States. Dancer photographs the land and its people, capturing the wide-open spaces of Kansas and other Midwestern states.
states.
"I'm an adventurous person," Dancer said. "It's easy to have adventures in Kansas because everything is fresh and real. It's not cluttered."
fame as a landscape photographer.
"I went with some friends to the Flint Hills and places like that in Kansas then started doing some work for "Kansas" magazine," Dancer said. "I just started exploring the state. I try to go to places that are off the beaten path."
and real. It's not cluttered.
Originally from California, Dancer came to Kansas in 1974 to attend the University of Kansas. He studied human development and said he accidentally got into photography. That change in direction led to worldwide fame as a landscape photographer.
allen pain.
Dancer's fascination with the sunflower state has led to the recent publication of his book, "The Four Seasons of Kansas." The book chronicles the change of seasons throughout the state, sometimes in places that are not well-known even to people who live there.
well-known even to people who look," Dancer said of the spots he photographs. "The best things aren't well marked."
Locally, Dancer's name often is associated with another local artist, Stan Herd. Herd is a Lawrence crop-artist whose work has been captured by Dancer and displayed in magazines all over the world.
displayed in magazines all over the world.
"He's great to work with." Herd said of Dancer. "We are interested in many of the same things and really have a good relationship."
a good relationship.
Dancer's Kansas book contains a foreword by author William Least Heat-Moon, who wrote the national bestseller "Blue Highways."
Dancer is concerned with the preservation of the natural beauty of Kansas and other uncluttered states.
"That's something I wanted to reinforce with the book," he said. "People need to learn to appreciate open spaces.
Heat-Moon calls Kansas "a complexity of moving points, a land of tills and shifts."
we need to be careful to not let it get filled up and crowded."
Dancer said that his work had taken him almost everywhere in Kansas and that he wanted to expand his work to encompass the entire Midwest region. He also travels extensively and will spend the Christmas holiday in Barbados.
in Barbados.
"I don't think I would like Kansas as much if I never went anywhere else," he said. "It's a good place to come home to."
Dancer will sign copies of his book from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Oread Bookstore in the Kansas Union.
Balloon business has turned into practical experience for KU student
By Christine A. Winner
Special to the Kansan
Cindi Routh has helium tanks in her closet.
net closer.
Ledgers lie next to textbooks on her desk, and balloons bounce around in the back of her car.
The tanks, books and balloons are all part of a balloon gift and decoration business developed and owned by Routh, Kansas City, Kan., junior.
As an advertising major with an eye on a marketing career, Routh opened her own business on Jan. 1. She operates mainly out of a walk-in closet in her apartment. Her clients include wedding parties, residence halls and college students.
"I'm not doing this to make money." Routh said. "I'm doing it to learn things I can't learn in a classroom."
Routh wanted to develop a retail business and knew that she had to find something with a low overhead. She decided on balloons.
After obtaining a loan from a bank, Routh wrote to wholesalers and ordered from their catalogues. Her average balloon bouquet sells for $10. She puts in 20 to 25 hours a week on her business.
Besides gaining practical business experience, Routh has learned exactly how much it costs to fill one balloon with helium, how to fit ball-
loon bouquets in a two-seater sports car and how much more expensive a business phone is than a private line.
But she said business courses taken at KU didn't prepare her for some of the difficulties she has encountered, such as convincing wholesalers that she has a legitimate operation.
Routh said getting a business license was easier than making the initial contact with wholesalers.
For instance, once a Texas wholesaler sent her the wrong shipment the day before a big party at the Kansas Union. Routh spent a frantic day and about five times her estimated budget to get the materials
from a business in Kansas City, Mo. The day the Internal Revenue Service came knocking on her door was even worse.
was even worse.
Routh thought her taxes had to be reported annually instead of quarterly. When she failed to file, the government brought it to her attention.
"I wanted to do it on my own without any help from Daddy. Getting help from Daddy is too easy," she said.
So she found an accountant and paid the fine.
Although a Yellow Pages ad is in the works and she is auditioning people to do singing telegrams, she did that school was her first priority.
since junior high when she had the idea to market wigs for bald Cabbage Patch babies. Routh has seemed to thrive on new ideas.
despite these setbacks, Routh finds plenty of positive aspects in the business that keep her motivated
"I'm not going to run out my roommates,"she said.
Judy Heiserman, Englewood, Colo., senior and one of Routh's roomates, said that for the most part, the business did not affect the day-to-day living in the apartment. But the situation before she moved in was different.
"I heard last year was a mess. No one could get any of their calls," Heiserman said.
A separate business line solved the problem.
Any profit Routh makes is reinvested into the business. This practice allowed her to pay back her bank loan one week after sales started. After graduation, she plans to sell the business and move on to something bigger.
Routh said she thought her venture into the business world had helped her tremendously.
"If you don't take a risk, you're never going to learn anything," she said.
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