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
After visiting Garner State Park in the rain, the next day I went out to Seminole Canyon State Park and Historic Site. Seminole Canyon is on the Rio Grande and is another Texas state park I had never visited; Texas has soooo many state parks. I love the Rio Grande area for hiking and photography,… Read More Hiking Along the Rio Grande
As I mentioned previously, I took some time off to go hiking at some state parks in south Texas. I did this in November for the milder weather as some of these parks are too brutal for me in the summer months. I had visions of beautiful, mild partly cloudy days hiking along the ridges… Read More A Rainy Climb at Garner State Park
I’ve gone on a little hiking trip to use up some PTO days before the end of the year, and to enjoy the milder weather of November. For this journey, I decided to head to South Texas and hit a few state parks that I have never visited, weather permitting. My first state park was… Read More Wildlife Near a Creek
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 was at the beach for vacation and not really to go shooting, but I made time one morning for a sunrise shoot down where the dunes meet the beach. This was the only morning of my trip in which the eastern sky wasn’t stormy in the morning, so this was my best shot. I… Read More A Day at the Beach
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
Jason Frels 