Scouting, strange weather, and eagles.
We had some really strange weather Friday, heavy fog that stayed around most of the day and then light fog/haze that evening. I was out at Stockdale Park scouting the location for a sunset shoot for one of my photography classes. The fog/haze combined with the sunset was producing some really interesting light and colors […]
Who needs the moon
The full moon today (Saturday the 20th) is supposed to be a ‘super full moon‘ where the full moons occurs when the moon is closest to the Earth (perigee). The moon will be somewhere around 14% larger than normal. I went out Friday evening to try and photograph the moon rise a day early. Why […]
A drive through the country
Last week I took the opportunity to drive up to the north end of Tuttle Creek Lake with a friend. On the way back home we stopped at the Oldsburg Marsh area to get some photographs of the sunset. I was able to get down to the shoreline and catch the sunset reflecting off the […]
My First Sunset of 2011
The weather was pretty decent today so I decided to go out and photograph my first sunset of 2011. There were some clouds in the west which was even more incentive to head out with my camera. I didn’t have time to go very far so I decided on just quick trip to the River […]
Picture in picture
The photograph above was taken a couple of weeks at sunset. I had just pulled off the road into a scenic overlook near Carnahan Creek where I was out with one of my photography classes. As everyone was getting out of the vehicle, we noticed the sun going down behind a hill. With the sun […]
Clouds, sunset and slow shutter speeds.
Fall is my favorite time of year for many reasons, but one of the main ones is the weather. I’ve never been a hot weather person and I love the cool temperatures of fall. We have been having some nice weather lately, but….we haven’t had hardly any cloudy skies the past couple of weeks. Almost […]
The moon, the wind, and working with what you are given.
Earlier this week I was out to photograph the moonrise (which was the “harvest moon” on the 23rd). I headed out to Wildflower Road near the Carnahan Creek area which is a great spot to photograph the moonrise. While waiting for the moon to show up I did a bit of scouting and I was […]
Stockdale Park, another favorite location
In my last post I wrote about photographing a sunset from a familiar stretch of riverbank below the dam at Tuttle Creek Lake. A few days later I found myself photographing sunrise (of all things!) at another familiar place…Stockdale Park on Tuttle Creek Lake. I have taken a lot of photographs at Stockdale, the trees […]
Close to home: A familiar stretch of shoreline
I had recently had the chance to photograph a sunset at the Outlet State Park below the Tuttle Creek Dam, a place I have taken photographs in several times before. I was out with one of my photography classes at the Outlet Park for the sunset. Towards the end of the evening the class ended […]
The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected.
Last night I heard that the weather people were predicted fog for this morning. Fog usually makes for some interesting conditions to photograph in so I decided I would get up early and head to Stockdale Park on Tuttle Creek Lake. I thought the trees in the water there might be interesting in the fog. […]