A Photo Story

I found this flower in the Olympic Mountains of Washington and thought it looked very similar to the Texas Bluebonnet.  I actually took quite a few photos of this flower from all different angles and settled on this one.  It was evening so light was dim and the sky was uninteresting.  All my photos including [...]

Fuzzy Flowers I am starting to enjoy the photo of the day.  I hope you are as well.  I also took this one in Olympic National Park while backpacking.  You can see how much I enjoy using diagonal lines in my photographs.  This shot was hard to take with a backpack on as I had [...]

I have always been a fan of pulling one color out of a photo and making the rest of the photo black and white.  It’s a pretty common way to attract the viewer’s eyes to the subject of the photo, or at least what the photographer wants to bring out.  I’ve been organizing my old [...]

Here are a few other flower pictures from my photo walk today.

I went out on a photo walk today.  I am lucky to live within walking distance of Hermann Park.  I took my camera (and lots of water) to the Houston Garden Center and Miller Outdoor Theater.  The Garden Center had lots of shady spots and I played with depth of field while taking pictures of [...]

Over Memorial Day weekend I went backpacking in Lake Mineral Wells State Park located just west of Forth Worth, TX.  I was surprised to see a wide variety of flowers in bloom.  The prickly pear cactus flower was one of them.  We hiked past quite a few with flowers in varying stages of bloom.  I [...]