Steven Van Dyke's Home Page

Welcome to my simple homepage. I've deliberately kept it simple to help it load faster and work on more systems.

Pick the area you want to see:

Hey! I have a book available on Amazon!

The neat, artistic & professional stuff

• Like my pictures? Some of them are now available as hand-cut wooden jigsaw puzzles in my Etsy Shop (new one 05/08/2020)

• The Hobo Nickel Studio (added 03/12/2010)

• The Thirty Second Photography Lecture (added 03/01/2009)

• A Small Object photography tutorial

• Want to see The Big Picture?

• The DST Seasons Project 2002/2003 A year-long art project at my day job (added 04/04/2003)

• Musical Masterpieces A big charity auction I donated work to (updateded 04/03/2003)

• Impressionist Photography (updated 05/20/2002)

• "On The Level" a new series of pieces (updated 01/30/2003)

• Interested in having me take an Impressionist Portrait of you?

• The Thayer Art Wall - a solo exhibit of my work (July - September 2002)

• My 2002 Photo Calendars

• How and why I do these images

• Are you a Visionary too?

• Art Utopia: Fine Art Poster Gallery. - another place you can see my stuff

• Isobel's Fashion show held at the Farenheit Gallery, 11/02/2002 (added 11/12/2002)

The stream-of-conciousness, what's been happening stuff

• The Henry Doorly Zoo, August 2017 (added 08/20/2017)

• The Amazing Acrobats of Shanghai in Branson, MO (added 07/02/2017)

• Tips from an Uber Driver (added 10/17/2015)

• Gladstone, MO Fourth of July Fireworks (added 07/06/2014

• Air Force Color Guard at KC150 (added June 2014))

• The Great Platte River Road Archway (added June 2013))

• The 5-Cent Magazine cover (added long before I remembered to put a link))

• The 2011 Powell Gardens Butterfly Festival (added 08/09/2011)

• How to make a Graver Roll Case (added 06/07/2011)

• Branson, September 2010 (added 09/09/2010)

• My new portable bench (added 07/11/2010)

• 4th of July Fireworks at the T-Bones (added 07/11/2010)

• Roger Daltrey's "Use It Or Lose It" Tour (added 06/28/2010)

• BLADE 2010 (added 06/11/2010)

• 2010 World Cutting Championship (added 06/11/2010)

• 2010 Engrave-In (added 06/11/2010)

• The Tennessee Aquarium (added 06/11/2010)

• The Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis (added 04/15/2010)

• TSO's Beethoven's Last Night in Kansas City, 2010 (added 04/27/2010)

• Kansas City's 2009 White Christmas (added 12/25/2009)

• Kansas City's City Lights, 2009 (added 12/04/2009)

• The Legends at Village West Christmas 2009 (added 11/22/2009)

• About the 2010 Calendar (added 11/22/2009)

• Briarcliff Village's 2009 Christmas lighting (added 11/22/2009)

• Zona Rosa's 2009 Christmas Tree lighting (added 11/22/2009)

• Trying out my new Alpha 900 (added 11/08/2009)

• Fourth of July 2009 Fireworks in Branson, MO (added 07/15/2009)

• 3000 Miles to Wasteland Driving from KC to Phoenix & back (06/09/09)

• A selection of my rants on various topics (new rant 04/27/2009)

• Moose! A full set of pictures of a stuffed moose (added 04/05/2009)

• Missouri's 2009 Gun Rights Rally Day (added 04/05/2009)

• Hand engraved Winchester Lockback (added 01/05/2009)

• Falls Park in Sioux Falls, SD (added 12/23/2008)

• How to Make A Money Clip

• The Box O' Happiness

• My Snakeskin Fountain Pen

• Rush at Starlight Theater, 06/07/08 (added 06/09/2008) using a new gallery system

• Radio station KYYS FM - The New 99.7KY pictures (updated 09/16/2007)

• Fun with the Motivational Poster Generator (added 02/2/2006)

• Weird Al Yankovic in concert (added 04/15/2004)

• Parkville's Christmas On The River 2003 (added 12/07/2003)

• Tuba Christmas 2003 in KC (added 12/07/2003)

• Our 2003 Pumpkins (added 10/31/2003)

• A Benchmade Pumpkin (added 10/17/2003)

• The 2003 Corporate Art Festival (added 09/15/2003)

• DST's 2002 Holiday Concert (added 12/11/2002)

• Tuba Christmas 2002 in KC (full set added 12/12/2002)

• Got one! - a Leonid Meteor picture (added 11/19/2002)

• The Tuber Tosser 200! (added 11/04/2002)

• Happy Halloween 2002! (added 10/31/2002)

• Dedication of KC's Historic Garment District Needle Sculpture (added 10/07/2002)

• The 2002 Butterfly Festival at Powell Gardens (added 08/20/2002)

• A quick look at BalloonFest '02 (added 08/25/2002)

• The MURC Robot Showdown (added 08/11/2002)

• The 2002 DST Arts Festival (added 07/29/2002)

• The Liberty Memorial Gala and Rededication (added 06/03/2002)

• Some 'Civil War' Portraits (added 05/20/2002)

• My newest camera, a Seagull TLR (added 02/23/2002)

• The Great KC Ice Storm of 2002 (added 02/02/2002)

• The 2002 Winter Olympics Torch passes through KC (added 01/15/2002)

• Meet our Kitty Cats! (added 01/14/2002)

• New Year's Day Eagles at Squaw Creek (added 01/13/2002)

• Tuba Christmas 2001 in KC (added 12/03/2001)

• Parkville's 10th Annual Christmas On The River (added 12/04/2001)

• The Trans-Siberian Orchestra in Concert, 12/01/2001 (added 12/04/2001)

• A gallery of images I processed in my Jobo DuoLab (added 08/30/2001)

• A short gallery of Kansas City's 150th Birthday Celebrations (added 08/29/2001)

• Platte County Fair Mud Marathon, 07/22/2000 (reformated 08/20/2001)

• Roger Waters "In The Flesh" 08/28/1999, Kemper Arena (reformatted 07/20/2001)

• Some semi-random links, mostly photographic (updated 07/03/2002)

• Jigsaw puzzles you can play on your computer! (puzzles added 07/03/2002)