This time of year it seems that every photographer is obligated to review and select her or his best photo of the year. It is also nice to do to see if you spent your year well or wasted a bunch of time going out and taking lousy photos. My main gage of which photos… Read More My Best Photo of 2022
A popular topic on photography blog sites these days is someone posting about how the modern smart phones can now just about take the place of a full-frame camera and the phone camera photos are so good that most people can’t tell the difference anyway. Why bother with all those cumbersome camera bodies and lenses… Read More Nikon Z 7II vs iPhone: Can an iPhone Really Replace a Full-Frame Camera?
My blogging friend Carolyn is in town and I took her and her family on a hike to find armadillos. Not sure why she wants an armadillo, but I try not to pry into other people’s business too much. I do know a few good places to find armadillos that aren’t dead on the side… Read More The Missing Armadillos
Late Saturday afternoon it was time for another hot mid-August hike. I headed out for the Balcones Canyonland Wildlife Refuge with my full camera backpack hoping that something would inspire me to shoot it. It has been one of the hottest summers on record and we have had very little rain this year, so the… Read More Dry Summer at the Wildlife Refuge
Sunday afternoon and time for a hike. I headed to Inks Lake State Park this week as the weather was nice and I wanted to walk those trails again. Either my memory is wrong or they have added a hiking loop. I had hiked the trails across the main road before, but then they had… Read More The Sun Sets Somewhere
Sometimes when I take a picture, it makes me think about what kind of story could be behind it. On a recent trip to Colorado Bend State Park I took some pictures that brought back many memories from my childhood days on my grandparents ranch in south Texas. So I wrote a story. Many events… Read More The Day Everything Went Wrong
I am making a 2022 Calendar to send out as Christmas presents. Nothing too fancy, just some of my favorite landscape photos that I have taken this year. I am focusing on Texas because that is pretty much the only place I have really been this year (and last year). I did a calendar last… Read More 2022 Calendar
We had our first cool weekend of the autumn. Between that and the high clouds, I couldn’t resist getting out for a late afternoon hike and sunset. So, I headed out to Inks Lake State Park about 2 hours before sunset and hiked around on the trails among the granite hills beside the lake. The… Read More Evening Reflections
I was at the beach in Galveston for a few days. The beach generally faces to the SouthEast so I planned on catching some sunrises. It turns out that the first morning I was there was the only morning that I would do this. The second morning was stormy and the third morning was clear.… Read More Beach Sunrise
Wow, I haven’t posted a blog in about a month. I have been busy moving from one house to another and the amount of constant work involved in that process has put me out of my usual routine of getting out a few times a week and trying to photograph something. But Sunday afternoon, after… Read More Hiking Trail Details
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