Big Bend Twilight
It’s been a busy week, full of shooting, writing, designing, and some great discussions with other photographers, near and afar! I was going through some old images tonight looking for some submit-worthy photographs to go with an assignment, and I came across this image from the Big Bend Ranch State Park near Lajitas, Texas. I [...]
Travel Tip for the Road Warrior: Enjoy the Outdoors
Photographers that spend a good amount of their time on the road will see the significance in this post, particularly those photographers who see themselves periodically popping in the travel photography sector of the industry. When I travel to a shoot, I tend to stake out the towns/areas/ecosystems I’ll be driving through for potential photo [...]
Photo of the Day: Thistle Time
I thought I would share this colorful thistle while I work on a new Field Lighting post. Thistles are a mix of beauty and danger combined in the same plant, and when they are in full bloom, they take center stage with their vibrancy. If you can find a calm, overcast morning to throw on [...]
Field Lighting #10: Horsin’ Around with Engagements
It’s been a while since I’ve put up a Field Lighting post, and Junction kept me from posting anything too extensive, so I have a little catching up to do. In regards to the last Field Lighting post, nick b pretty much nailed it beyond naming the exact light source behind the model to camera [...]
June Desktop Wallpaper – Sabinal Blues
The June desktop calendar is now available! Just right click the image above and save it do your designated folder! This shot was actually taken from a location that one of my students came upon during a shoot on one of the most beautiful stretches of the Sabinal River in Utopia, Texas! Several of us [...]
Field Lighting #8: High-speed lighting…flowers!
Yes, flowers. I’ve been holding this one nearly a year, and it’s the right time to talk about photographing flowers in Texas! The rain has been coming steady throughout West Texas and the Hill Country, and from what I’ve heard on the phone and via the Web, the Spring flowers are coming on in full [...]
Mr. Watkins’s Hands
I probably have this in a previous post (no doubt a failure of my memory), but I just wanted to post one of my favorite shots taken over the past few years. These are artist James Watkins’s hands. I have an upcoming Field Lighting post generated around this shot and a few portraits of this [...]
Free Desktop Calendar for April – Spring-time!
I’m a little early with this one (just to make up for how late I have been with the past three). Just click on the shot, and download it to your desktop for your day-keeping pleasure! It’s been a treat walking to the Texas Tech office during the mornings and seeing all the Bradford Pears [...]
Photo of the Day – Sabinal River Light
I was just down in the Hill Country for a show with the Hogg Maulies, and it was refreshing to see some of the rivers coming back to level! Here’s a take from the Sabinal River running through a beautiful ranch in Utopia, Texas. This has been the site of a lot of great photography!
Field Lighting #6: On-camera flash utility
It’s been a little while for a Field Lighting post, but I have a few in the bag. Assignment work and research has been keeping me away, and it looks like it’s just going to get heavier in the near future, but hopefully I can squeeze in a few remnants of my existence on the [...]
Free Desktop Calendar for March
Late as always! I’ve actually been pretty absent from the blog and my Twitter account here of late to finish up a few assignments. I’ll have another Field Lighting, if not two, up this week to make up for last week. In the meantime, I have uploaded the free March desktop calendar for your downloading [...]
February, 2010, Calendar Desktop Wallpaper
Well, better late than never. It’s been a busy couple past weeks, and I’m settling in to February…finally. The February 2010 desktop wallpaper calendar is set, and all you have to do is click on the image above to see the large version. Right-click the image, and save it to your desktop! Monsoon season hits [...]
Painting Buildings…with light!
I could be writing today about a certain announcement that a certain computer manufacturing company made yesterday about a certain device that will relatively change your life. But I’m not. Actually, there are so many blogs and news articles out there about Apple’s new iPad, that it would be pointless to the “I-wish-it-had-this-and-that” discussion that [...]
Photo of the Day – Great Horned Sighting!
Owls are one of those special creatures that you just don’t see much of (me included), and it’s a shame, because they are one of the most beautiful, graceful birds I have ever seen/photographed. Although I’ve spent much more time photographing Barn Owls, I enjoy this photograph of an early morning Great Horned Owl perched [...]
Field Lighting: Jeff Haley, Cattleman
Jeff Haley is a good man. I came out of nowhere to introduce myself to him over the phone several months back, telling him I’m the photographer for a Texas Parks and Wildlife story for which he’s already been interviewed. When I first visited his ranch in the Texas Panhandle, we rode around in a [...]
Looking toward the Spring!
Here’s another archive natural history piece for those of you looking forward to Spring. Taken just outside of Mason, Texas, where the granite rock seemingly grows from the ground everywhere! This particular area of Texas is home to a diverse set of ecosystems, where not only 100 miles away, inklings of the Chihuahuan desert come [...]
Gray Fox in the Big Bend
I was skimming through some images in my archive from a while back, and I happened across this one of a gray fox I photographed while helping Wyman Meinzer at a photo workshop at Cibolo Creek Ranch. The resort/ranch is located due south of Marfa, Texas, in the Big Bend (a jewel of the desert, [...]
Texas Winters do not equal predictable seasons.
That’s right! As most of the nation noticed over the past month, the weather has been seemingly harder on many states, what with all the blizzards and such. Texas is no different, and this Winter is shaping up to be one for the books. I spent a few days on Meadows Ranch, my family’s ranch [...]
Free Desktop Wallpaper – Owl in Ice
I’m nearly out from under a series of assignments for this year, but just to make a quick “Hey, I’m still around” appearance on the blog, I’m offering this image taken a couple winters ago as a free desktop wallpaper (just right click and save the image to your hard-drive). I blogged about this image [...]
Photo of the Day – Devil’s River more calm side
I’ve posted before about the Devil’s River, however, most of those posts include images of Dolan Falls. Dolan Falls is the site of the largest amount of water pouring over a set of boulders, however, no one ever gets to see the other direction, the side of the falls that represents a more serene environment. [...]
Free Desktop Wallpaper – Toolshed
For all of you that feel that staring at your computer feels like you are staring at a wall of tools, and you don’t know what you need to fix the problem, here you go! This is my first free desktop wallpaper, and all you have to do is drag the image on to your [...]
Prairie Chickens…what will become of them?
I recently wrote about the current cover story for Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine (link to post here), and how we are noticing a drastic decline in Lesser Prairie Chicken populations in Texas. The story covers stewardship of land and enterprise amidst necessary renewable energy resources, as well as research that can aid in maintaining [...]
Photo of the Day – Cranes on the Run
It’s getting to be that time of year again, when the fall brings everything that does not bloom to life! Many a photographer would say this is their favorite time of the year, and I would have to agree. There’s something nice about fall light, and in West Texas, it has a certain uniqueness to [...]
Photo of the Day – Big Bend Sky
Take a trip sometime to Big Bend National Park, and you won’t be disappointed in the immense spaces offered to you for just simply getting away! This particular shot was taken off of the park’s river road, a high-clearance road that parallels the Texas/Mexico border. If you get there at the right time of the [...]
