I had the day off and woke up at 5:00 AM. Sunrise is at around 6:30 AM and according to the forecast it was going to be a partly cloudy morning before rain moved in later in the day. So, that left me enough time to get out to the wildlife refuge and hike up… Read More Gray Morning, Gray Photos
I am planning on going somewhere to do some wildlife photography later this year and it is something that I am not great at. So, I have been trying to get practice with the wildlife that lives around me. I do have a lot of great (not so wild) wildlife photos of napping dogs around… Read More Ducks and Auto-focus Modes
I have been trying to practice a little wildlife photography recently. And where I live, that pretty much means birds or deer. So, I walked around the refuge on a cloudy Sunday afternoon and hoped for a little light to make it through the clouds. I chose the Balcones Canyonlands Wildlife Refuge because at this… Read More Painted Bunting and Friends
We had a lot of rain last week and so this weekend I decided to go to Colorado Bend State Park and hike the waterfall trails. There are two waterfall areas on opposite ends of the park from each other and they are both spring fed. This part of Texas is underpinned by many caverns… Read More Waterfall Trails
We’ve had a rainy week and it occurred to me that the little waterfall at Inks Lake State Park might be flowing well. This waterfall is on spring creek, named such because it generally only has much water in it in the spring. Also, it was a very cloudy Saturday, which I thought might make… Read More Rain and Wildflowers
In planning for my trip to Saguaro National Park, I read hiking guides and looked at maps to plan a soft itinerary so I wouldn’t just show up and hike a random trail. For my first day at the west unit of the park, I planned a moderately strenuous and scenic hike up to Wasson… Read More A Hike to Wasson Peak
The next leg of my spring hiking trip had me at Saguaro National Park near Tucson Arizona. Saguaro National Park is divided into two units, the East and the West with the city of Tucson in between. Both units of the park boast miles of hiking trails through mountains and cactus forests so I was… Read More Saguaro National Park – East
I went to hang out on the beach during spring break. I wasn’t there to shoot photos but I brought a camera just in case. March is a little early in the year to go to the beach, but on the coast of Texas spring comes early. The first day I was there it was… Read More The Beach
The incredibly mild winter is ending and spring has arrived to provide us with relief, and around here that means that the bluebonnets have arrived. People in Texas generally love these wildflowers and can often be found photographing their children with them along the sides of country roads. I did the children in bluebonnets photos… Read More Spring is Here
One of my favorite places to hike that is near to where I live, is Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge, which is to the northwest of Austin in central Texas. The wildlife refuge is US government owned and exists to preserve habitat for endangered species. In the case of Balcones Canyonlands, the two main endangered… Read More The Wildlife Refuge
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