This picture was taken less than an hour after the previous posted image in Big Bend National Park. We stopped at an overlook on our way to dinner after a long day’s hiking and shooting. The atmosphere on top of this mountain was almost claustrophobic. I felt like I was in a giant room when [...]
We just returned from a Spring Break trip to West Texas. I shot a lot of pictures on the trip but this was one of those that I was able to immediately visualize as we left Santa Elena Canyon. The clouds were cooperative, too.
Ansel Adams shot a picture of the canyon sixty years ago. Adams’s [...]
This photo is in the current issue of Popular Photography. I shot this one weekend in late 2007 as part of my series of photos on Houston Skyscrapers. Sometimes I like to give myself projects as a way to challenge my creativity. In this case, I wanted to try to capture unique perspectives of the [...]
I was out scouting for an opportunity to complete an assignment for the Fred Miranda weekly photo contest, which was “Sunrise” that week. The clouds were not cooperating with me on this particular day (neither were the Katy Police who questioned me regarding my suspicious – read “terroristic” – photography activity) and I didn’t actually [...]
This is a door along the wall of the Mission San Jose in San Antonio, Texas. As I walked through the gate, I was immediately struck by the patterns of light and shadow cast by the 4 pm late winter sunlight. This was literally the first shot of the day. (It’s funny how often I [...]
