Harold "Doc" Arnett, 56, owes his art to observation. The St. Joseph photographer and Kentucky native will capture images through honing in on an object's tiniest minutiae or being lucky enough to have a camera nearby when he notices a particularly breathtaking sunset. Either way, a similar fact about his craft comes out. "There's spectacular beauty in virtually everything if you catch the light right," Arnett says. The approximately 20 works in Arnett's exhibit "Portraits of Kansas: Poems and Pictures" shows his keen eye to spot a branch's shadow on a wintercreeper vine during an ice storm or fascinating detail in something as mundane as a doorknob. He accompanies some works with original poetry to "look at the same subject through two different filters." Through one medium or another, he hopes viewers will leave enlightened with a heightened sense of awareness. "Whatever time we devote to deliberately taking a closer look at what is around us is time well spent," he says. "Portraits of Kansas: Poems and Pictures" is on display in the Walter Yost Art Gallery at the Highland Community College in Highland, Kan., through Feb. 4.