For each of my daughters’ graduation presents, I took them on a trip. With my oldest daughter, we went to Yellowstone National Park in 2019. My youngest daughter graduated in 2021 and we didn’t plan a trip because of pandemic concerns and because I was in the process of selling my house and buying another,… Read More Going Way Up North
Sunday afternoon was the last official Sunday afternoon of summer and it was really nice for a change. The edge finally came off the heat about a week before and the high temp was only in the mid 90s F. When the weather starts “cooling down” like this, I start wanting to get out of… Read More Late Summer Sunset
I was at the beach for vacation and not really to go shooting, but I made time one morning for a sunrise shoot down where the dunes meet the beach. This was the only morning of my trip in which the eastern sky wasn’t stormy in the morning, so this was my best shot. I… Read More A Day at the Beach
I reserved a day-pass for Colorado Bend State Park for Sunday morning and planned to get out there early before it got too hot. For some reason I was wide awake by 4:30AM on Sunday morning, and decided that I might as well get an early start as it is an hour and half’s drive… Read More Wildlife Hike
I went on another summer afternoon hike at my favorite wildlife refuge, I didn’t have a particular plan other than to shoot some photos even if they weren’t good. The wildlife refuge is very dry this time of year, the wildflowers are gone, the creek isn’t flowing, and there are few people out there. I… Read More Silhouette or No Silhouette?
Saturday evening, August 12, there was a night sky event at Lost Maple State Natural Area west of San Antonio. Lost Maples is a rather remote park and thus has little light pollution at night and is a wonderful place to view the night sky. And, there was much to enjoy in the night sky… Read More Night Sky at Lost Maples State Natural Area
It’s been super hot since mid-June, which is basically what summer is here. I find the heat very demotivating when it comes to getting out hiking and shooting photos, but I had had enough demotivation and late Monday afternoon I went for a hike at the wildlife refuge. And as usual, I found that the… Read More 35mm and Hot
I’m in the mid-summer photographic doldrums, but on most days I carry my small camera and a lens around on my walks through the city park near my house. I do often see wildlife out there that might be fun to shoot. In one corner of the park I walk by a patch of sunflowers… Read More Find the Goldfinch
Stormy skies can be fun for landscape photography, but we don’t seem to get a lot of stormy skies here. On Saturday afternoon a line of dark clouds moved in to interrupt the clear blue skies, so I decided to head out to the wildlife refuge to see what I could do with the gloomy… Read More Stormy Skies at the Wildlife Refuge
This time of year I struggle with having time and a place to go shoot photos as the wildflowers are gone and the summer heat is oppressive. But, I have been carrying a camera and one lens at a time with me on my morning walks through a large park near my neighborhood just to… Read More How to Control Focus Depth
Jason Frels 