I went out in the evening thinking that I would shoot some fireflies. There is a park nearby where they hang out around dusk. The mosquitos hang out there as well, but that’s outdoor photography. So, I had my camera and tripod set up attempting to aim in the general direction of the fireflies, and… Read More Shooting Fireflies
A few times I have tried to make time-lapsed videos of the stars moving across the night sky. I have always found this to be a mesmerizing thing to watch in a time-lapsed video. The process is not very hard, just time-consuming. The first step is to find a truly dark place to be on… Read More Time Lapsed Astrophotography
I am trying to learn how to take nice sky pictures at night, to capture the stars and the Milky Way. One of the things that makes this challenging is that the stars are quite dim for the camera sensor and competing with this is all of the light pollution from cities and towns lighting… Read More Star Photo Stacking
I recently went down to Galveston and brought my camera thinking that I was going to get some good photos. What I forgot about was how humid it is in Galveston. So, I would grab my camera gear and leave the nicely air conditioned hotel room and head out to take a few pictures and… Read More Humidity
Sometimes a good place to take a picture is on the side of the road. I often carry my camera with me in the car and kind of lookout for something interesting, especially during wildflower season. Sometimes I see something and plan to come back later in the day when the light is better or… Read More From the Side of the Road
This morning after a light rain, I noticed little water droplets on a rose bud in my front yard. So, I ran in to get my camera gear to get a good close-up picture. See the image below. This is a Julia Child rose that I picked up at a rose nursery one day. It has… Read More Yellow Rose
Devine Lake is a little park in my town, Leander Texas, that I go to sometimes to take pictures. It is very close to my house to a handy place. It is a nice wooded park around a big pond. It is rarely very crowded; people occasionally fish or kayak around there. It is a… Read More Devine Lake
For quite some time now I have been trying to get a good panorama of the Austin skyline. I don’t quite have the shot I want yet, but I will continue to try. I have been struggling to get the light and clouds just the way I want. I usually try in the late afternoon… Read More Austin Skyline
Austin is the capital of Texas and we are fortunate to have a beautiful capitol building that is open to the public. It is also set in a scenic downtown area and is close to the University of Texas campus. Several times I have gone on photo-shoots to try to capture the State Capitol from different vantage points inside and outside…… Read More Photographing The Texas State Capitol
A few weeks ago I was driving through Brenham Texas near sunset. As I was passing the fire station, I saw that the bays were open and I thought that it might be fun to try make some HDR photos of the fire engines. As a bonus, the sun was setting behind the fire station,… Read More Brenham Fire Department in HDR
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