Friday afternoon was cloudy and I didn’t have work, so I wandered down to a city park to see if there were any birds to shoot. There is a pond that is getting a bit low on water, but it usually attracts a lot of ducks. When I got to the park bench I found… Read More Urban Wildlife
I went hiking at Colorado Bend State Park the day after Thanksgiving. I wasn’t expecting to take beautiful photos and was mostly there for the hike. While I love hiking at this particular park, I have struggled taking good photos there. But just the same I hiked along with my full camera backpack and hoped… Read More Longevity
I recently sold a camera (Nikon Z50) and bought a new camera (Nikon Z6III), mainly because it has much better auto-focus and high-speed shooting performance for wildlife. So far I am very happy with the auto-focus and speed performance as it is everything I expected. But it also has another feature that I have been… Read More What is Pixel Shift and is it any Good?
I got up early Saturday and went out to Inks Lake ostensibly to shoot wildlife. There is rocky place to pull over and park near the edge of the lake if you have a high enough clearance vehicle, and I figured I would go there and shoot birds until the park opened a little later.… Read More Birds and Foliage
Often I come across a location that I think could be photographed well under the right conditions. I keep coming back to these locations in my mind and in person trying sort out what to do with it. One such location was the overlook along the hiking trail in my previous post that I eventually… Read More What to do with the Pecan Flats Trail
This time of year the sun rises quite late, for me anyway, and this made it easy to get out to the wildlife refuge and hike up to an overlook before the sun crested the eastern horizon. There were sadly no clouds, so there was no predawn color-show to be there for, but I knew… Read More Dawn’s Early Light
In the past I have made calendars to send out as Christmas gifts. If I am going to bother taking thousands of photos every year, it makes sense for me to do something with them besides let them sit in digital file form on a computer’s hard drive. So, I try to make things like… Read More A Calendar
There has been a comet called Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the evening sky lately and I had never tried to photograph a comet before. So, on a clear-sky Sunday afternoon I went to the Warbler Vista section of the wildlife refuge for some hiking with the plan to end up at the sunset deck (which coincidentally faces… Read More A Comet from the Wildlife Refuge
I went out to Enchanted Rock last weekend hoping to get some inspiration for landscape photos. I have spent so much time editing photos from my trip in August that I haven’t really done much. I have also been patiently waiting for the September heat to let go, and in mid-October it is still here.… Read More Late Summer at Enchanted Rock
I wandered down to Padre Island National Seashore a couple of weeks ago to see the beach and do some kayaking in the Laguna Madre. Padre Island is a barrier island just off the Texas coast and the strip of water between the island and the mainland is shallow and calm and ideal for some… Read More Kayaking with Shorebirds
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