It’s been raining for a week and it is going to be raining for at least another week. September is supposed to be one of the wettest month for Austin and so far it is living up to this legacy. Rain is generally not fun for someone who enjoys landscape photography and I have been… Read More Rainy Week
When I went to Gruene, I stayed in a bed and breakfast called the Gruene River Inn. The place had a nice great room that overlooked the river and I decided to attempt to shoot it with my 14mm lens and do an HDR merge to capture the room and the windows. One challenge was… Read More HDR Sunset from Gruene Texas
I had been wanting to find a decent place in Austin to take some long exposures of traffic in the evening. I haven’t done much of this before and I wanted to give it a try. I found a parking garage next to I-35 that was open and I drove right up to the top.… Read More Long Exposure Car Lights
The last few days have been gloomy, foggy, rainy, and misty around here. I have a few vacation days to take and the weather has really soured my plans to go shoot something. I have always considered a dark, overcast day to be lousy for photography, but I started to consider that perhaps I could… Read More Gloomy, Gray Day
It was Thanksgiving and I didn’t really have much time to go out and shoot photos, but I still wanted to write my weekly blog. I did go camping with family on some ranch land that my uncle runs down near Victoria Texas. Like with every ranch there is a stock tank pond and I… Read More Thanksgiving Camping
I have a few more photos from my travels to Singapore and Malaysia that I like and want to share. Singapore Flower Dome In Singapore, near the Supertree Grove, there is a Flower Dome and a Cloud Forest enclosed garden space. I spent some time going through the flower dome. Below is a picture walking… Read More A Few More From Singapore and Penang
After my short trip to Singapore, I got to spend a weekend in George Town in Penang Malaysia as I was there on a business trip. It was a hot and humid Sunday afternoon and I didn’t want to just hang around the hotel, I don’t enjoy shopping, so I grabbed my camera and went hiking.… Read More Penang Panorama
It was a nice evening and there were high clouds in the sky, so I decided to go down to the park and take some HDR photos of the sunset. These photos are all multiple exposures processed in Adobe Lightroom and Photomatix Pro. My histograms ranged between these extremes: Here is the first shot I… Read More HDR Sunset in the Park
I am trying to learn how to take nice sky pictures at night, to capture the stars and the Milky Way. One of the things that makes this challenging is that the stars are quite dim for the camera sensor and competing with this is all of the light pollution from cities and towns lighting… Read More Star Photo Stacking
