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
Saturday was a sunny and breezy cool day so I went to the lake. I figured I would hike around the shore and shoot (photos of) water birds and then hang out for sunset and hope for a cloud or two. This is a good time of year to shoot water fowl around here as… Read More Sun and Fowl
At Colorado Bend State Park Texas, there is a constant spring that flows from the base of a limestone cliff, forms a creek which flows through the park, and eventually falls over another cliff and then down into the Colorado River. On Sunday afternoon I decided to hike up to the source of the spring,… Read More Spring to Falls
As I mentioned in the previous post, Big Bend Ranch State Park is the largest state park in Texas and while some of it is accessible from the scenic state highway that runs along the Rio Grande, much of the park is a bit harder to get to. I had previously been to the trails… Read More From Overlook to Overlook
I have always wanted to go camping and hiking in the interior of Big Bend Ranch State Park in west Texas. Big Bend Ranch is the largest state park in Texas, and sits to the west of Big Bend National Park. The very southern part of the park is accessible via scenic SH 170 which… Read More A Secluded Campsite in the Desert
Just some images from a casual hike along a river near the city that I live in. The trail through the trees, showing their winter lack of foliage. I like how the trail goes off into the distance. Down at the end you will either find a terrifying mythical beast or a parking lot. There… Read More A Hike and a Hawk
Friday I had the day off and for some reason I asked Bing chat what I should do with my day off. One of its suggestions was Hamilton Pool Preserve west of Austin. I had always intended to go to this place, but for some reason I hadn’t made it out there in the last… Read More Hamilton Pool
One of the lesser traveled trails at Colorado Bend State Park is the Tinaja trail. This rocky trail takes you up and down canyons in the middle of the park to a tinaja. A tinaja, taken from the Spanish word for clay jar, is a bowl-like depression in the rock generally formed by erosion from… Read More Algae Patterns in a Tinaja
Just a sunset photo or two. There were high clouds Monday, so I went out to the (Balcones Canyonlands) wildlife refuge to shoot from a spot I hadn’t tried. My idea was to get as much of the hiking trail in the landscape as possible as well as some short trees or shrubs that were… Read More A Hike and a Sunset
Jason Frels 