We had our first cool weekend of the autumn. Between that and the high clouds, I couldn’t resist getting out for a late afternoon hike and sunset. So, I headed out to Inks Lake State Park about 2 hours before sunset and hiked around on the trails among the granite hills beside the lake. The… Read More Evening Reflections
I was at the beach in Galveston for a few days. The beach generally faces to the SouthEast so I planned on catching some sunrises. It turns out that the first morning I was there was the only morning that I would do this. The second morning was stormy and the third morning was clear.… Read More Beach Sunrise
Wow, I haven’t posted a blog in about a month. I have been busy moving from one house to another and the amount of constant work involved in that process has put me out of my usual routine of getting out a few times a week and trying to photograph something. But Sunday afternoon, after… Read More Hiking Trail Details
Thursday evening there was finally a cloud or two in the sky and I thought I might get some nice photos so I went hiking at Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge. I initially hiked up the Rimrock trail to some overlooks to see what the view looked like, but I didn’t find it very compelling… Read More Sunset Photos – No Sky Replacement
Many photo editing tools now offer a feature for automated replacement of the sky in an image. I initially had very little interest in this tool but I eventually decided to experiment with it. I have, at times, played a few tricks with the sky in an image to make it more dramatic but seldom… Read More Sky Replacement
It was a cool breezy Sunday morning, which is unusual for August. I stepped out back at a little after 7 AM and noticed the mid-level clouds being driven by the wind across the sky and that made me think of doing some cloud-blur photos. The place I chose to make the photos was Balcones… Read More Cloud Blur
On August 2 central Texas got a normal August’s rainfall in one afternoon. We are having a very mild and wet summer for which I am very grateful and I took the opportunity to head down to Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge to check out the creek which has many small waterfalls. I was counting… Read More Waterfalls and ND Filters
After hiking around Inks Lake State Park on a stormy day, I was about to head home when I decided to stop at a part of the lake shore that faces west and have a last look. The sun began dropping out of the sky just over the horizon, so I set up for some… Read More Stormy Day – Great Sunset
While some parts are having record heat waves, we seem to be off to a very rainy summer here. Mind you, I’m not complaining about the rain as my yard looks like a country club golf course right now. It was a stormy Monday afternoon and I went to Inks Lake. I was kind of… Read More Storm Clouds and the Lake
It was a stormy afternoon and I went to the overlook at the Warbler Vista area of the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife refuge with hopes of shooting dramatic clouds. The overlook is high upon a ridge and it is covered, so I wasn’t worried much about the rain. It is kind of a muddy and… Read More Stormy Overlook
