Closed Canyon Closed Canyon is a short trail that lies right off the main road. There is a parking lot from which you can quickly hike down to the stream bed and walk to the canyon’s entrance. The canyon cuts through the mesa to the Rio Grande, but you can’t hike all the way down… Read More Big Bend Ranch State Park – Canyons and Sunset
After Big Bend National Park, we went to check out Big Bend Ranch State Park. I had never been to this state park and I was eager to see this scenic area of the border. After stopping at the park visitor center, we headed down FM170 also known as the Texas Mountain Trail. Our first… Read More Big Bend Ranch State Park – Hoodoos
On the way back from Santa Elena canyon, I took the scenic route which is called Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive. I knew that there were a few overlooks along this road that would be good for some pictures. In the image below, the yellow highlighted route shows the more scenic highway through the park that… Read More Big Bend – Desert Mountains
Saturday morning well before dawn, the workshop group was off to Santa Elena Canyon in the dark to get there in time for sunrise photos. To get there we took the Old Maverick Road from the west entrance gate. This is yet another rough unpaved and dusty road which I didn’t enjoy driving in the… Read More Big Bend – Santa Elena Canyon Sunrise
I heard about a photo workshop taking place around Big Bend National Park through Precision Camera in Austin and I knew I had to find a way to attend as Big Bend is one of my favorite places and the most beautiful part of Texas. There would be an instructor to take the group to… Read More Big Bend – The Window
I wandered around at Balcones Canyonlands NWR with my manual macro lens. It is a rather heavy lens, but it has a very wide aperture, 150mm focal length, and it is a macro so it has a short focus distance for close ups. I was planning on their being a lot of wildflowers along the… Read More Some Close-ups From Hiking
I woke up early the next couple of days trying to find another magical beach sunrise, but the clouds were really not cooperating. Wednesday morning the sky was clear and Thursday morning there were some thick clouds on the horizon. My plan on this morning was long exposures to smooth the waves with a sunrise… Read More Morning on the Beach
The evening after my sunrise photos, there was a nice sunset on the opposite side of the island over the West Bay. It is not nearly as easy to find access to the bay for shooting photos as there is a lot of private property on the bay side of the island. But my daughter… Read More Bay Sunset
This picture happened because I was afraid there was going to be a nice sunset and I had no where to be to photograph it. I drove by this relatively new firehouse near my house and decided to try to frame it with the sunset. There was a flag pole that I was just unable… Read More Sunset at the Firehouse
The Easter experience is usually getting together with family, eating too much candy, and going back to work the next day and trying to fend off all of the extra candy that everyone brought to work. 2020 is going to be an odd-ball year for this and so many other things. For Easter, I woke… Read More Easter Isolation
