I have been wanting to try to photograph the Austin central library at night for a while. Maybe try some long exposure with the vehicle lights blurred on the street or HDR. I haven’t really been down around the library much, so I would be going down there cold without any real plans for photographs.… Read More Austin Library at Night
There is a fun effect you can achieve with a zoom lens called zoom burst. This is where you crank the zoom during an exposure to give a motion blur out from the center of the frame. Being trapped in the house on a rainy weekend, I thought that I would try my hand at… Read More Zoom Burst
When I went out to the star party at the McDonald Observatory, I wanted to try out staying at the Indian Lodge in Davis Mountains State Park nearby. This state park has a hotel that was originally built by the CCC during the great depression, I think. It had good reviews and it seemed like… Read More Staying at Indian Lodge
The University of Texas has an observatory in west Texas called the McDonald Observatory. The observatory hosts several star parties a month, in which guest can come see the stars, look through telescopes, and enjoy the dark sky. The kids had a day off of school, so I took the clan half way across Texas… Read More Star Party
One problem that I frequently have is that my lens or sensor gets a little dirty. This is one of the hazards of landscape photography. Often the specs or spots are small and out of focus and not noticeable. But shooting stopped down can increase the focus depth in your image and really bring out… Read More Seeing Spots
Central Texas has had a lot of rainfall and flooding lately. One of the results of this rainfall is that the rivers are flowing at much higher rates that normal. North of the town I live in, there is a low water dam on the South San Gabriel river. It typically is little more than… Read More Flooding is Good for Waterfall Photos
I had some time Friday afternoon before sunset to take some photos. It had been raining a lot and I wanted to go to Ink’s Lake to try to take pictures of the waterfall as I thought it might be flowing heavily. When I got there I found that the park was closed because of… Read More Some Fall Color at Inks Lake
