The spring bluebonnets are beginning to come out in force. I haven’t toured the countryside yet, but around town I see them cropping up here and there. There is an empty commercial lot near a main boulevard that I pass from time to time and have seen the bluebonnets blooming. So, I went there on… Read More Spring Bluebonnets
Were I Captain Ahab, my white whale would be a beautiful sunrise over downtown Austin. The scene is set every morning and all I need is the sky to cooperate. I am just a calm morning with high clouds away from this magical event. So, I read several weather forecasts trying to predict the appearance… Read More An Austin Sunrise with Some Clouds
On Monday morning, I grabbed my camera stuff and left for work early because I thought that I was going to go get a nice sunrise. While sitting bogged down in slow-motion traffic in Austin, I could see that there would be no real sunrise shoot so I headed on to work and got there… Read More Brushy Creek Sunset
I had occasion to spend an evening in Eastland Texas, a small town west of Fort Worth. I spent some time shooting photos outside, but I was fighting a lot of dull cloud cover and eventually rain. Before sunset I got a brief break-up of the clouds and managed to shoot the late afternoon sky… Read More Majestic
I thought that the county courthouse over in Burnet might look nice for Christmas, so I went to check it out and shoot some photos. I wanted these photos to be in early twilight so that there would be some color in the sky to offset the bright lights. Twilight passes quickly this time of… Read More Merry Courthouse Christmas
Friday night there was a fantastic sunset… that I got to observe while driving home from work in heavy traffic as usual. The forecast showed that there might still be some high clouds around at sunrise. So, I figured that it was worth a shot to go downtown and try to get that glorious sunrise… Read More Dawn’s Early Light
Sunday afternoon I was off to Inks Lake State Park. I didn’t know what I would find to photograph there, but I wanted to get out and shoot anyway. It was a warm mostly sunny afternoon with a few high clouds and I thought that there was a chance of a nice sunset as well.… Read More Reflections at the Lake
