I have had to put away my camera bag for a while to deal with a personal crisis, so I don’t suppose I will be posting much in the near future. I have had less and less time for this lately and even the few times I have gone out, I have been mostly unable… Read More Goodbye for a While
In the winter time, the wildlife refuge often does prescribed burns to keep the dead vegetation from building up and becoming a fire hazard in the hot dry summers. It looks like they are about to do that at my favorite hiking spot. The part of the wildlife refuge across the road from the Doeskin… Read More 35mm and Sunset
I go hiking at the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge at least a couple of time per month. I always bring a camera, but sometimes I feel that I have taken every photo that there is to be taken out there. I know every trail, every overlook, every dry creek bed, and every hill. I… Read More The Glowing Cactus
Lately I have been going out and shooting photos, looking at them on my computer, and then just sort of sitting on them for a week or so before I figure out what I think about them. This is true of some photos I took last weekend on a cloudy, dreary Sunday afternoon. I had… Read More Just One Photo
In Big Bend National Park there is a large boulder balanced on some other boulders; this feature is called Balanced Rock. Balanced Rock sits at the end of the one-mile long Grapevine Hills trail and is a popular hiking destination. I have had photographic aspirations for this feature as it overlooks the desert to the… Read More The Grapevine Hills
There is a big, somewhat challenging, day hike at Big Bend. It can range from 12 – 16 miles depending on how you do it. There is a lot of climbing up mountains, down through canyons, along creek beds, and up along the rim of the Chisos Mountains facing south toward Mexico. Unless you are… Read More “The Hike”
I took these photos a couple of weeks ago and I like them but I wasn’t really sure what to say about them. These are photos from an outing that I made to the national fish hatchery close by. There are many ponds that attract all sorts of different birds. I went out there to… Read More When To Use A Teleconverter
I decided to try something new this year. Instead of just hiking around with a camera, I am also trying mountain biking around with a camera. This allows me to get a different level of exercise and maybe cover more ground in some cases. And many of the state parks have biking trails that I… Read More Trail Riding with a Camera
I assessing my photographic progress in 2024, I have been looking back and attempting to determine what my best photos are. I have narrowed the selection down to five images and I would like to get feedback from readers and so I am attempting a poll at the bottom of this post. I already have… Read More Best of 2024 with Poll
Several blog posts ago I mentioned that I come across places that I like but don’t know how to photograph and I keep these places in mind and try to come back to them with new ideas. One such place is a patch of ashe juniper trees with a hiking trail leading through it. This… Read More A Foggy Trail in the Woods
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