In planning for my trip to Saguaro National Park, I read hiking guides and looked at maps to plan a soft itinerary so I wouldn’t just show up and hike a random trail. For my first day at the west unit of the park, I planned a moderately strenuous and scenic hike up to Wasson… Read More A Hike to Wasson Peak
The incredibly mild winter is ending and spring has arrived to provide us with relief, and around here that means that the bluebonnets have arrived. People in Texas generally love these wildflowers and can often be found photographing their children with them along the sides of country roads. I did the children in bluebonnets photos… Read More Spring is Here
I went hiking out at the wildlife refuge and I wasn’t expecting much besides a nice hike. It’s too early in the year for the long grasses to take on their golden color which looks so nice in the afternoon sun and I figured that the wildflowers had all come and gone. So, to keep… Read More Unexpected Wildflowers
In the spring, we get a lot of wildflowers and they are very pretty, but I have found it difficult to get compelling photos of them. I think what makes them so difficult to photograph well is that there can be so many of them that the photo can lack a focus point for the… Read More How to Shoot Wildflowers
It’s summer, the sky is mostly clear, it is really hot out, and I am struggling to find subjects to go photograph. I still go out hiking in the heat of the late afternoon even though it is hot and try to find something to shoot, but I struggle to find anything that I feel… Read More Struggling to Find a Subject
Happy Easter! When it’s Easter there are usually a lot wildflowers to be found and I can’t resist taking a few close-ups of the flowers when I am out hiking. Yesterday I came across a rather large patch of bluebonnets on my hike and that gave me the opportunity to shoot close-ups and experiment with… Read More How to Shoot Flower Close-Ups
Today I have some bluebonnet close-ups that I took in the park near my house. Bluebonnets mean spring and I haven’t seen the huge fields of them yet but there are many around my neighborhood park. First I went out in the morning to get the bluebonnets on the opposite side of the park from… Read More Spring Closeup
It has rained every day for about a week straight. That is May, and in a couple of months I’ll be pining for the rain. But it does make things muddy and interferes with my hiking and photography plans. Sunday I could no longer take it and I drove down to Tejas Park in the… Read More Clouds and Wildflowers
It’s a late Thursday afternoon in April. With the limits on gathering and socializing mostly lifted, the wildlife refuge is once again mostly abandoned even though the wildflowers are screaming for attention. Hearing their call from across the county, I headed out with my camera. The first two photos below are all about the Indian… Read More It’s All About the Wildflowers
In the autumn Texans look with envy upon the New England and Rocky Mountain states with their beautiful fall foliage, but in spring we get even with wildflower season. Wildflower season is in full swing in Texas right now and I took a few photos of bluebonnets while my daughter and I were out in… Read More Bluebonnets of Big Bend
Jason Frels 