I often go hiking with my camera at Inks Lake State Park and I enjoy the park, but I always feel like I have photographed everything out there and I won’t really be shooting anything new. But it is always nice to go out there and it was a late Sunday afternoon, so most of… Read More Autumn at Spring Creek
I went hiking out at the wildlife refuge and I wasn’t expecting much besides a nice hike. It’s too early in the year for the long grasses to take on their golden color which looks so nice in the afternoon sun and I figured that the wildflowers had all come and gone. So, to keep… Read More Unexpected Wildflowers
Sunday afternoon was the last official Sunday afternoon of summer and it was really nice for a change. The edge finally came off the heat about a week before and the high temp was only in the mid 90s F. When the weather starts “cooling down” like this, I start wanting to get out of… Read More Late Summer Sunset
I reserved a day-pass for Colorado Bend State Park for Sunday morning and planned to get out there early before it got too hot. For some reason I was wide awake by 4:30AM on Sunday morning, and decided that I might as well get an early start as it is an hour and half’s drive… Read More Wildlife Hike
Saturday evening, August 12, there was a night sky event at Lost Maple State Natural Area west of San Antonio. Lost Maples is a rather remote park and thus has little light pollution at night and is a wonderful place to view the night sky. And, there was much to enjoy in the night sky… Read More Night Sky at Lost Maples State Natural Area
I’m in the mid-summer photographic doldrums, but on most days I carry my small camera and a lens around on my walks through the city park near my house. I do often see wildlife out there that might be fun to shoot. In one corner of the park I walk by a patch of sunflowers… Read More Find the Goldfinch
Stormy skies can be fun for landscape photography, but we don’t seem to get a lot of stormy skies here. On Saturday afternoon a line of dark clouds moved in to interrupt the clear blue skies, so I decided to head out to the wildlife refuge to see what I could do with the gloomy… Read More Stormy Skies at the Wildlife Refuge
This time of year I struggle with having time and a place to go shoot photos as the wildflowers are gone and the summer heat is oppressive. But, I have been carrying a camera and one lens at a time with me on my morning walks through a large park near my neighborhood just to… Read More How to Control Focus Depth
If you want to hide and secretly watch the daily life of birds, you probably need a bird blind or a bird costume. If you aren’t up for looking like a Sesame Street character, Inks Lake State Park has a bird blind that you can easily get access to that will enable you to spy… Read More The Shooting Gallery
One problem that I have being a hobbyist photographer is what to do with the thousands of image files that I have. Sure I have them saved on a cloud drive in addition to my computer so that they are secure and at anytime I like I can whip out my phone or computer and… Read More What to do with all those digital photos
Jason Frels 