The mountain laurels bloom kind of early around here and I wanted to get a few close ups before they faded away. I also wanted an excuse to play with my macro lens. My first shots were just before the buds began opening. It was a sunny and breezy morning, which means I had plenty… Read More Mountain Laurel Close Ups
I got up before dawn to go hiking as I had a nice idea for a sunrise behind the small waterfall at Balcones Canyonland National Wildlife Refuge. As I was driving out there, I could see some clouds on the horizon, so I thought there was a chance. But two things happened when I got… Read More A Few Minutes of Perfect Light
A hotel I visited and shot some pictures of. Be sure to visit this site, there is some interesting and funny content there.
Yesterday the weather was great, but I had a lot of work to do and didn’t get anywhere to shoot photos. Today, I have time but it is cloudy and rainy. So, for relief of boredom, I shot some close-ups of flowers with water droplets when it wasn’t raining. I thought that the rain drops… Read More Rainy Day Close-Ups
Saturday was nice, it was quite warm for the first of February. I got out of the house and went to Colorado Bend State Park for some hiking. I lugged my camera down the trails in case I saw some wildlife. I did see a lot of armadillos. Armadillos are not very stealthy. You hear… Read More Armadillos and Golden Hour
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
I generally use Flickr as an external judging tool for my photographs. I post my favorite photos to mostly the same Flickr groups and see how they do. I know this may not be completely accurate as there may just be more Flickr traffic in these groups one day as compared to another, but it… Read More What Does Flickr Say About 2019
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
The town that I live in has a public disc golf course very close to my house. It has been there for a few years and I have thought about it, so I finally purchased a starter set of three golf discs and went to see about playing and getting some light exercise. The scoring… Read More Disc Golf in the Woods
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
