Ring…ring….”Hello, Psychic Friends Hotline, this is Carol speaking…” OK, so maybe I can’t tell you if your dead grandmother really likes your new boyfriend or not but I do have some predictions for 2017 in…
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I’ve been asked to compile my best of 2016 images so I thought I would post them to the blog today. I’ve picked out the following 10 images to be my Best of 2016. And…
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At first glance, this image might not look like it might be a good candidate for conversion to black and white. I can almost hear you yelling at me from across the wire. “Are you…
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Maybe you got a new camera over the holiday and now your thoughts turn to learning how to work it or perhaps you find yourself one of the many people who decide that, come the…
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As we wind down the last days of 2016, there are going to be a lot of “Best of…” articles and threads published, including, I’m sure, some of my very own. As a photographer, we…
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Now I know I’ve been back a little while but I had written this up and not published it yet so, without further ado, here is my Top 10 list from my trip to Lima,…
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For a sentence as simple as, “May I take your picture?” I am often surprised by how much drama it can manifest for photographers. For starters, the words themselves make so very many photographers utterly…
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Since holiday season is in full swing just about now and this tends to introduce a lot of stress into our lives, I thought I would share a more pastoral landscape image tonight. In keeping…
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I really wanted to title this image, “Dust Bunnies Have Risen Up and Taken Over Our Universe. Either that or maybe like we should vacuum more often, eh?” but I figured that was probably just…
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A while back one of my good friends, Helen, challenged me to shoot something in my own backyard. I had the best intentions of doing it at the time, so I had written down what…
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Went to Viva La Vida today, which is the Dia de los Muertos parade in downtown Austin. One of the photo groups in town sponsored a photo walk there and they were invited to shoot…
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Bless this house and those who’ve sinned in it. Did I mention I live alone? Well, unless you count the dog and he’s not talking. (Actually, come to think of it, there is this big…
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Back from Lima, Peru and I thought I would check-in. Had a wonderful trip. Really liked Lima, will have to go back again someday, if nothing else to photograph from the fantastic Mirabus. Was a…
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Realizing I owe you a bed from the last trip, I thought it wise to post before I go off and make more beds. At least I thought I should post a bed from my…
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This weekend I got to tour the Willow City historic schoolhouse as part of the Friends of Gillespie County Country Schools Tour. Willow City is a small town located out near Fredericksburg, Texas, about an…
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Been busy but wanted to check in. I’ve been playing with the iPhone a bit and came up with a couple that look like this one. Funny thing about that house, it was cold the…
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Went to one of those “pass the pocket wizard” style photo shoots the other day. You know the ones, where they basically setup the lighting and everybody takes a shot at, well, taking a shot.…
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This weekend, I had opportunity to attend the Gillespie County schoolhouse tour. The tour is itself both a conference and a tour-they invite teachers to come from all over Texas, attend workshops, and tour the…
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Possibly heading out tomorrow to shoot the Gillespie County schoolhouse tour. Every year they have a tour of the abandoned schoolhouses in Gillespie County, Texas (think Fredricksburg here.) That’s right, I’m going out near places…
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This is a road in rural North Dakota. This is what the roads look like there. This is the vast expansion, the big open sky, the heartland of America in all its glory. An interesting…
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