It’s Spring and I wanted to return to the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge for a hike to see if there was a wildflower show and perhaps take in a sunset. I have written about this place before. I always bring my camera when hiking, so I can practice composing and taking photos of anything… Read More Hiking with my Camera in Balcones Canyonlands NWR
Bokeh refers to the parts of a photo that are out of focus. It is a technique commonly used to isolate a subject from the background, especially in portrait photography. My blog today is partially about achieving this with some photographs of buds on my rosebush and how I accomplished this. I have some large… Read More Bokeh of Roses
As you may know from Wednesday’s post, I recently went to a wildflower place near Fredericksburg Texas (and then to a winery). I was interested in the wildflower place for the large fields of wildflowers that I might like to photograph. You can see the bluebonnet pictures here. There were also some large fields… Read More Wildflowers and Hummingbirds
It’s wildflower season and in Texas, that means bluebonnets. The bluebonnet is the state flower and people plant them everywhere so that for a few weeks in the early spring they are just about everywhere you look. I went to a place near Fredericksburg that grows field of wildflowers. There are large fields of bluebonnets… Read More Field of Bluebonnets (HDR or no HDR)
As you may know, there is a park in Austin with Peacocks. I have been to this park several times with the goal of getting a photo of the peacocks with their tail feathers on full display. My daughter wanted me to take her and her friends to Austin and one of the places we… Read More Another Peacock Attempt
A good size population of birds hangs out in my front yard so I put out a bird feeder. It didn’t take them long to jump all over the free birdseed and I have to replenish the feeder every day. The birds won’t go near the feeder if I am nearby, so I set up… Read More Birds and Bees
I spent some time in Gruene Texas (near New Braunfels) last weekend. Gruene is kind of a touristy place north of San Antonio with a wine and antique theme. It is also common to see tubers floating down the river, but I think it was still a bit cool for that in early March. I… Read More Cormorants on the Guadalupe
Across the street from where I work there is a building being constructed. I have watched them set up the large cranes and start laying down each floor of the building. It is still going up and I don’t know where it will stop. I thought that it might be fun to take some pictures… Read More Construction Site Photos
Some pictures from my final afternoon at Caprock Canyons State Park Texas. This is a continuation of my earlier blogs Day 1 and Day 2. As it got late in the day and the afternoon shadows began to get long, I tried to get some good panoramas of the high cliffs in the long shadows. The sky… Read More More Caprock Canyons
On day 2 of my camping and hiking expedition to Caprock Canyons State Park, I woke up to cloudy skies and didn’t have an opportunity to photograph the Milky Way before dawn like I had hoped. But just after breakfast, the wind picked up and blew all of the clouds away replacing the great soft-box… Read More Hiking in Caprock Canyons State Park (Day 2)
