Usually, the easiest way to make a long exposure with daytime light is to attach an ND filter to the front of your lens. The ND filter blocks a specific amount of light and you have to increase the amount of time the shutter is open to get the same exposure as you would without… Read More Long Exposure With No Filter
It was a stormy Sunday afternoon. I was itching to get out and shoot some photos and I was contemplating using the stormy sky in some photos. I began thinking about the creek at Balcones Canyonlands and how it would look with the dramatic gray clouds in the sky. So, I got in my car… Read More Stormy Day
It has been difficult to make time for hiking recently, but I managed to get out Thursday night. There are a lot of wildflowers in bloom as well as the prickly pear cactus. There was even a small amount of water in the creek at the Balcones Canyonlands wildlife refuge. The cactus were in bloom… Read More Wildflower Bloom at the Refuge
I did a little hiking at the Warbler Vista area of Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge. I don’t usually come to this area as it doesn’t have as many trails as the Doeskin Ranch area, but it does have some nice overlooks. It was a cloudy day, but I hung around until after sunset anyway… Read More Sunset at Warbler Vista
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
It has been unusually cold in Texas, which you know if you have paid any attention to the news in the US. My household made it through without any real problems. A few days of mostly no electricity and almost non-existent water supply. If you want to read about how woefully unprepared the state of… Read More Melting Hike
It was a freezing Thursday morning and I was awake early. I checked the clouds outside my back window and from what I could tell there were high clouds which meant a chance at a nice sunrise. So, I gathered up my gear and headed out to Balcones Canyonlands for some photos. As I was… Read More Freezing Sunrise
The first couple of weeks of this year I have barely picked up my camera. I have been busy reorganizing my house as I now have my own office, which I am happy about but it has been a lot of work. We also had a rare (once in a decade) snow storm with a… Read More What to do in January
I went hiking this morning out at Balcones Canyonlands Doeskin Ranch area. It was kind of one more free morning to go hiking before I go back to working tomorrow. There were quite a few people out there hiking and enjoying the morning, including one relentless trail-runner that must have been in amazing shape as… Read More Sunday Morning Hike at Balcones Canyonlands
I wandered around at Balcones Canyonlands NWR with my manual macro lens. It is a rather heavy lens, but it has a very wide aperture, 150mm focal length, and it is a macro so it has a short focus distance for close ups. I was planning on their being a lot of wildflowers along the… Read More Some Close-ups From Hiking
