I have been waiting for a decent day to go back out to Inks Lake and try shooting the little waterfall. There is a stream that travels over a lot of rocks getting down to the lake. When it hasn’t rained for a while, it can get down to a trickle, but we have had… Read More Sunday Afternoon at Inks Lake
I have been mostly sick all week and have started to feel better as the weekend approached. I was eager to get out and hike and shoot some photos. Saturday morning looked to be cool and clear, so I wouldn’t get a cloud show at sunrise, but I would probably have a nice hike anyway.… Read More Small Waterfall
On Sunday morning I went down to Austin. The two forecasts that I looked at said that the clouds would break before dawn. Driving down, I didn’t see clouds parting but I kept up hope. I got to the park and it was still cloudy, but I decided to go out on the pedestrian bridge… Read More A Few From An Austin Pedestrian Bridge
I have been wanting to get a better filter kit for my lenses – better than just the screw on round filters that I have been using. I want to be able to use the 100mm slide filters, as this offers an opportunity to use graduated filters and to stack filters. A YouTube landscape photographer… Read More Lee Filter Kit
The University of Texas has an observatory in west Texas called the McDonald Observatory. The observatory hosts several star parties a month, in which guest can come see the stars, look through telescopes, and enjoy the dark sky. The kids had a day off of school, so I took the clan half way across Texas… Read More Star Party
Central Texas has had a lot of rainfall and flooding lately. One of the results of this rainfall is that the rivers are flowing at much higher rates that normal. North of the town I live in, there is a low water dam on the South San Gabriel river. It typically is little more than… Read More Flooding is Good for Waterfall Photos
After to going to Hong Kong for fun, I was in Penang Malaysia for work. Most of my time was there for business and I didn’t really plan any photo shooting outings. Most evenings, when I made it back to the hotel, it was dark or raining or both anyway. But, one evening I was… Read More Boats on a Gray Day in Penang
