tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72615137960123604692024-03-12T22:59:28.595-05:00Clark Crenshaw PhotographyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.comBlogger181125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-10256586859165505022015-08-29T23:35:00.002-05:002015-08-29T23:41:49.552-05:00A Trip to Big Bend!<br />
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<i>Dorgan House at Big Bend</i></div>
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A couple of weeks ago several friends and I went down to the Big Bend area of Texas. Since there is not a whole lot of civilization in the area, it has some of the darkest skies on the planet. It was also during the dark of the moon and the peak of the Perseid Meteor shower.<br />
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<i>Terlingua Cemetery at Night</i></div>
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We divided the trip into different segments since it is such a long drive to get to Big Bend. Our destination was the ghost town of Terlingua which is actually on the far side of Big Bend. Our first night of shooting we stopped at Fort Davis and photographed at the McDonald Observatory. Great clear skies and some of the brightest milky way I have seen. Unfortunately the observatories were completely dark and there wasn't a red glow coming out of them as there was on my previous trip. That red glow sure adds interest to your images.<br />
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<i>Terlingua Cemetery and Perseid Meteors</i></div>
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After breakfast the following day we headed towards Terlingua. After scouting some locations that afternoon we realized the area had a lot of interesting things to be shooting after dark. Despite the scouting, we took off that evening to a site that I had only seen on Google Earth. The shell of the Dorgan House was a 30 minute drive from Terlingua. We found it right before dark and it did not disappoint. I added some LED lights inside and we also light painted the exterior. The resulting image is at the top of the page.<br />
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After we finished at the Dorgan House, we headed back to Terligua. The old cemetery was our favorite location. Lots of crosses and stone monuments helped keep us busy until 3am. If you look at the large view of each cemetery image you will see some of the many Perseid Meteors that we saw. They were sneaky little dudes. The very biggest and brightest we saw on the trip all managed to avoid the camera lens. A little light painting was done on both the cemetery images.<br />
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The following evening we drove about 20 miles down the road to the Contrabando Movie set which is located next to the Rio Grande on the Texas Mexico border. Six or eight different movies have been filmed there although I haven't heard of any of them. It is an interesting place to take some pictures but the weather that evening didn't really cooperate. It was cloudy and trying to rain. It looked like our clear weather had come to an end. Fortunately, by the time we got back to Terlingua, most of the clouds had cleared. Yahoo! The night wasn't lost.<br />
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<i>Old GMC Bus</i></div>
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The stone ruins and the old church were almost completely lighted from the lights in Terlingua which is not really that much of a ghost town. A popular Bar and Grill was not too far away. The only thing added was the light coming from the interior of the church. Several of my LED lights gave it just the right glow.<br />
I had hoped to get permission to photograph the old bus during the night since it was right next to an artist's studio and home. Since I couldn't find the owner, I had to settle for a daytime shot. I like the image I got but still would have liked to have done some light painting on it around 2 in the morning.<br />
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The following day we decided to drive part of the way home and come up with something we could photograph after dark. I decided a stop by Fort McKavett near Menard might be just the thing. It was looking very cloudy near sunset, but once again it cleared off and gave us some clear skies and a great view of the milky way and the meteor shower. The fort has numerous buildings which only have some of their stone walls remaining. They made great subjects to combine a little light painting with the ruins and the stars. Overall the trip was a great success.</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-73955658723082968492014-02-16T13:50:00.001-06:002014-02-16T23:06:09.238-06:00The State Farm Insurance Office Campus in Richardson, Texas<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I have been watching the construction off Plano Rd. just south of Highway 190 for a number of months now. The design of all the large cranes has had my interest. Yesterday evening conditions looked good so I headed that way to get some pictures of the site where a large State Farm Insurance Office Campus will be. You can read more details about it<a href="http://bizbeatblog.dallasnews.com/tag/kdc/" target="_blank"> here</a> in a series of blog posts by Steve Brown with the Dallas Morning News.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you compare the first image and the last two you can see how much the mood of a scene changes as it goes from sunlight to dusk. There was less than an hour difference between the first and last image shown here. I think the light is great in all of them, but do you prefer one over the other? I would love to here your reasons why.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-71714622420210480472014-02-06T22:59:00.002-06:002014-02-06T23:07:01.647-06:00The Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last week I spent an afternoon at the <a href="http://www.fwnaturecenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=1" target="_blank">Fort Worth Nature Center and Refuge</a>. It was my first visit to the 3,621 acre facility. It was also nice, considering it was the last day of January, that I could hike around in a short sleeve shirt and get familiar with part of the 20 miles of hiking trails. I will definitely have to plan another visit so I can explore some more. The image below was taken on the marsh boardwalk.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-46755685584708978502014-01-21T21:42:00.000-06:002014-01-21T21:43:04.171-06:00The McDonald Observatory's Otto Struve Telescope and the Milky Way May 5, 2014 will mark the McDonald Observatory's 75th Anniversary. You can read a little more about the observatory at<a href="http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/afraid-losing-dark" target="_blank"> http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/afraid-losing-dark</a>. This image is also being used in the Texas Monthly article on line. I shot this back in November on a warm and clear night on my way to El Paso. You can see the whole series of observatory images that I took here <a href="http://clarkcrenshaw.photodeck.com/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=McDonald+Observatory&license_type_id=*ALL*&orientation=*ALL*&commit=Go">http://clarkcrenshaw.photodeck.com/?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search=McDonald+Observatory&license_type_id=*ALL*&orientation=*ALL*&commit=Go</a><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-64975994912954325632013-12-26T22:05:00.000-06:002013-12-26T22:05:20.537-06:00My Top Ten Images From 2013!<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Picking my favorite images each year is always a tough thing to do. It would be nice to say that it is hard to decide because I shoot so many wonderful images but the subjective nature of the process is what really makes it difficult. It is much like judging a photo contest with several other judges. You like an image but the other two judges don't. Then you and judge #2 like an image but #3 says "this doesn't do much for me". Such is the nature of the beast! I did get some feedback from several friends and family before finalizing the choices. Several opinions were given but nothing strong enough to make me change things much. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Another thing that helped make the choices difficult is that most of these have several very similar versions that are also on my web site. Horizontal or Vertical? This angle or that angle? Most of the time they all work well...but which is the best? I welcome your comments. If you like a different version of one of these ten then feel free to say so in the comments. You might also see one on my web site that I took this year that you feel I overlooked. One thing you might also notice is this...I am becoming quite the night stalker. Almost all of these were taken well after sunset.</span></span><br />
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I was in town for the Rockport Art Festival which is held over Fourth of July weekend. Somehow during previous visits I had missed the green LED lights of the pier on nearby Fulton Beach. Not this time.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I had photographed the Devon Tower the previous year and felt the area was worth exploring some more when I was back in town Labor Day weekend. I couldn't resist combining this interesting sculpture with Oklahoma City's tallest building in the background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The drive to my last art show of the year provided me with several of my top images. I had planned to take several days to get to El Paso, Texas and do some photography on the way. The first day I detoured off the interstate about 40 miles in order to shoot the McDonald Observatory after dark. Most of the drive from Dallas had been cloudy but the skies cleared around sunset and I had some great conditions for picking up the Milky Way above the telescope domes. Be sure and check out the similar images on the web site. There were numerous winners from this nights shoot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The following day I drove to Guadalupe Mountains National Park. I was a little late for fall color but recent rains had a salt flat flooded that was just west of the park. The winds were dead calm at sunset and the reflections of El Capitan and Guadalupe Peak could not have been better.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have driven by this abandoned Futuro Home for years on my way to the lake. A clear December night with a full moon was just the time to make the 45 minute drive to photograph this structure which looks much like a spaceship that has landed.</span></span> Unlike the previous photo, I used an LED light with a colored gel to provide the light for the inside. The light coming down the steps was made with a green flashlight.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-56660897628358397922013-12-15T15:46:00.000-06:002013-12-15T15:47:10.196-06:00Beale Street<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Several months ago I participated in the River Arts Festival in Memphis, Tennessee. While I was there I couldn't resist spending a little time on the very popular <a href="http://www.bealestreet.com/wordpress/about-beale-street" target="_blank">Beale Street</a> with my camera. As you can see by the sign it is the "Home of the Blues" and the "Birthplace of Rock and Roll". Several of my previous images from the area sold well at the art show and these are welcome additions to my Memphis Gallery. You can see the full collection on my web site here. <a href="http://clarkcrenshaw.photodeck.com/-/galleries/travel-and-architecture/united-states/memphis">http://clarkcrenshaw.photodeck.com/-/galleries/travel-and-architecture/united-states/memphis</a></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-51474800047951437962013-12-03T22:41:00.001-06:002013-12-03T22:41:10.369-06:00Web Site Featured in Shutterbug Magazine!<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I looked in my mailbox yesterday and there it was...the January edition of Shutterbug magazine. I have been anxiously awaiting its arrival because my web site is featured in one of the articles. Each month, Joe Farace writes an article called WEB PROFILES. He will review four or five photo sites. He will write several paragraphs of praise for each site, show a screen shot of the home page, and of course include the web address. Thanks a bunch Joe!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have been fishing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caddo_Lake" target="_blank">Caddo Lake</a> since I was a kid. These days I will bring along my camera equipment in order to get some photographs of this shallow lake on the Texas-Louisiana border</span>. Early November is usually the best time to capture the Bald Cypress Trees after they have turned rusty orange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">I was shocked this fall to see how much of the lake is being taken over by an invasive species named <a href="http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/species/exotic/salvinia.phtml" target="_blank">Giant Salvinia</a></span>. The main lake was so clogged with the weed that I did not even try to run through it with my boat. Surprisingly, some more confined areas were not so clogged up with the weed but I think a little current in these areas keeps the channels clear. You can see some of the weed in all of these photos. The bottom photo is completely covered with the stuff. I have yet to figure out if this is all Giant Salvinia or if the brown seed stalk looking things are a separate plant growing in the Salvinia. Either way, most of this water is about waist deep. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Last weekend I traveled to El Paso, Texas to participate in my final art festival of the year. Weather for the festival turned cold, windy, and even icy, but the two days I photographed prior to the festival were great. The weather was warm with little wind and the clouds vanished after sunset for my first stop at the <a href="http://mcdonaldobservatory.org/visitors/directions" target="_blank">McDonald Observatory</a> near Fort Davis. I had driven all day from my home in mostly cloudy conditions but it seemed the farther I drove west the clearer the skies became. My last minute decision to go photograph the observatory paid off. Skies cleared at sunset and a gorgeous Milky Way was clearly visible once all signs of the sun were gone. I was also pleasantly surprised by the red glow coming out of the observatory. I could barely make it out with my eyes but a long exposure made the red very obvious in the photographs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> After photographing at the McDonald Observatory, I drove 80 more miles to Van Horn and finally stopped for the day. After shooting a few things in Van Horn the next morning, I drove to <a href="http://www.nps.gov/gumo/index.htm" target="_blank">Guadalupe Mountains National Park</a>. The first thing I did when I arrived was to scout out the salt flats west of the park. I had heard that there was some flooding back in September and I also remember seeing pictures of the mountains reflected in a large lake. Sure enough part of the salt flat was now a very large shallow lake. My plans for the evening were now to come back at sunset.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After driving back to the park, I spent most of the afternoon hiking in <a href="http://www.nps.gov/gumo/planyourvisit/mckittrick.htm" target="_blank">McKittrick Canyon</a>. GMNP has a lot of maple trees growing in the canyons and the fall color can be spectacular. Unfortunately, I already knew that I was about two weeks past the peak. Many of the trees had already lost their leaves and the rest were soon to drop. Peak color or not the hike is still very pretty. After the hike it was back to the flooded salt flats. Conditions could not have been better. The winds totally died and a few clouds pinked up at sunset.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-28384529084987084782013-07-14T23:26:00.004-05:002013-07-15T10:25:14.936-05:00The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Penn Valley Park and the Christopher S Bond Bridge<br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Last month I spent a few days in Kansas City. The art show that I participated in kept me pretty busy but I did manage to get out and shoot some of the local landmarks. This first image is of the Christopher S Bond Bridge. This bridge crossing the Missouri River was opened in the fall of 2010. It is sometimes called the New Paseo Bridge since it was a replacement for the Paseo Bridge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The second image is of the new Kauffman Center which opened in September 2011. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Center was created as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Unlike
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I feel fortunate to have found this last location that I photographed. After leaving the show one evening I quickly searched for a location that gave a good view of downtown. After spotting Penn Valley Park, I parked the car and then saw the statue of "Scout" at the top of a hill. It made a perfect foreground overlooking the Kansas City skyline.</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-75306408810496497562013-03-26T15:38:00.000-05:002013-03-26T15:49:07.590-05:00The Rochester Institute of Technology's Big Shot project!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I spent last weekend selling my photography at the <a href="http://www.artonthegreene.com/" target="_blank">Art on the Greene</a> art festival. Weather was lousy and they even cancelled Sunday because of high winds. Fortunately, I heard about the <a href="http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2013/03/photo-project-at-cowboys-stadium-draws-about-2400.html/" target="_blank">The Rochester Institute of Technology's Big Shot project</a>. This event was going to take place Saturday after dark at Cowboy's Stadium which just happens to be across the street from the art festival. I decided to bring my camera and tripod on Saturday so I could get in on the fun at Cowboy's Stadium.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Several minutes of light painting would be followed by a five minute gap when instructions to the participants were given from a PA System. Adjustments would be made and there would be another two minutes of light painting. After I took several shots from my location, I decided to head back to the art show. The man shooting next to me had mentioned taking some shots earlier by this reflection pool. I decided to stop by it in case they did some more light painting. Lucky for me! They did and I was able to get this shot. I can't believe I was the only one shooting from this location. It gave me the most unique shot I have seen from the event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Art on the Greene is a nicely laid out show and it is a shame the weather kept everyone at home. All reports from last year were good for attendance and sales but that wasn't the case this year. I took this shot at the show right before walking over to Cowboy's Stadium Saturday evening. I don't think I missed much while I was gone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In January, I was invited by my friend, Gary Kelly to ride with him to New Mexico for several days of photography. Gary is the field trip chairman for the Dallas Camera Club. The field trip was mainly centered around the <a href="http://www.fws.gov/refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=22520" target="_blank">Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge</a> but we also spent some time at several other locations. Bosque is know for it's huge populations of Snow Geese and Sandhill Cranes that winter at the refuge and it didn't disappoint. Both mornings we witnessed massive blast-offs of the geese from one of the lakes at the refuge. However, I probably spent most of my efforts towards the cranes. Lots of good opportunities for shots whether they were flying, landing, or just walking in the lake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every year I look back at the images I have taken and choose ten of my favorites. I don't base this on how well they sold or how much they were liked on social media. They are just images I like. Images where I feel that I successfully captured with my camera the essence of the scene that was offered to me. They are in the order that I took them with a little story about each one. I hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoyed taking them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Several weeks after the bridge celebration, the Trinity River flooded. I definitely wanted some good shots of the lighted bridge reflected in the river. I spent two evenings shooting the river at dusk. One of the last compositions on the second evening turned out to be the favorite.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The wildflowers in Texas were great this spring but they did peak out several weeks earlier than I ever remember. I saw a photograph of a field another photographer had taken just south of Dallas near Ennis. It was already being called the "Field of Dreams". Several days later I made the short drive to Ennis and got this image at sunset.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This image is another one which was created while traveling to or from an art show. In early September I was driving home from the Arts Festival Oklahoma. With no moonlight on a clear night, I took a quick detour into a scenic overlook north of Ardmore, Oklahoma just to check out the stars. It was very hard to see but when I noticed the windmill on the hilltop, I decided I better get out the camera and take some pictures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A few weeks ago my wife and I traveled out west to several of our favorite places. I was blessed with great sunrises for two mornings at <a href="http://www.nps.gov/brca/index.htm" target="_blank">Bryce Canyon National Park</a>. It was hard to choose the best one of the bunch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">During our trip out west we drove up to<a href="http://parks.nv.gov/parks/cathedral-gorge/" target="_blank"> Cathedral Gorge State Park</a>. It is a small park near Panaca, Nevada. The area had received a little snow the day before. Hiking around in the wet mud was not much fun but the snow which hadn't melted yet sure made for some nice images. The following morning was cloudy and drizzly so I am grateful for my afternoon of good light at the Gorge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last night I was one of the judges for the annual "Bird" competition between the Dallas Camera Club and the Fort Worth Camera Club. Each club entered 20 prints and 20 digital images. Subject matter was open. The photos did not have to be of birds. The "Bird" is actually a small sculpture which is the trophy that the winning club gets to keep for the following year. I was told I had 2-4 minutes before the judging to show some of my work, promote myself, or just tell the attendants about myself and my work. We were free to do this however we pleased. I had purchased <a href="http://www.photodex.com/eid9230/proshow?gclid=CNSlwNK_iLMCFcKPPAodQl4Aeg" target="_blank">ProShow Gold</a> about 3 years ago and decided to use it to create a slideshow to music. Photodex has since upgraded the software but I did not feel that I missed any of the bells and whistles included in the upgrade. They also make a more powerful slide making tool called ProShow Producer. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The small version of this video doesn't even come close to doing it justice. However, it looks great if you watch the full screen version. Enjoy!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-12163500238901567292012-10-09T21:46:00.000-05:002012-10-09T21:46:07.825-05:00The Chinese Lantern Festival<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you live in the Dallas area and were planning to go to the State Fair of Texas, don't miss the <a href="http://www.chineselanternfestival.com/">Chinese Lantern Festival </a>which will be there until the fair closes on October 21.<br /><br />"Never before in the Southwest, the Chinese Lantern Festival is an outstanding visual delight. By day, it’s a collection of architecture, fabric flora, and fauna figures—pandas, flamingos, dinosaurs. A dragon made from 15,000 porcelain dishes! <br />By night, the festival lights up, setting the lagoon and imaginations aglow. The Temple of Heaven, Statue of Liberty, animated creatures, and a Blossoming Lotus—these are among the 22 dazzling lantern sets in and around the Nature and Science Buildings and lagoon."</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last week I visited the Festival while at the fair with my wife. I took some pictures but it was not the serious photo shoot that I had yesterday. Several other photographers that had been at the <a href="http://www.cottonwoodartfestival.com/" target="_blank">Cottonwood Art Festival</a> last weekend were with me. The crowd at the fair was huge since it was fair day for the Dallas schools.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> I think every student in town was there. Trying to take photos on the Midway was difficult. It was more like a cattle drive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fortunately, my main interest was shooting the Chinese Lantern Festival and it did not disappoint. As the lights started coming on at 7 pm it was hard to decide what to shoot first. I think I could make ten visits and still shoot new compositions each time. </span></div>
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Photographing the Lantern Festival is an HDR photographer's dream. Shooting subject matter like this after dark is perfect for bracketing a range of exposures and combining them for your final image. You can capture a lot more detail than you could with just one exposure.</div>
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The "Tunnel of Light" is the last part of the Festival that you walk through before you get to the exit. I decided to have some fun while zooming my lens during the exposure. Maybe I should do this trick more often!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lately, the photography I have been shooting has all revolved around my participating in art shows. Last weekend wasn't any different. While driving back home from Wichita, Kansas on Sunday night my plan was to stop and get a room somewhere south of Oklahoma City. The interstate passes near the downtown area and I couldn't help but notice the lights on the Devon Tower. Several weeks earlier when I had been there the lighting was pretty basic. Tonight there was brightly colored accent lights that went the whole length of the building on several sides. Cool! They also changed colors very similar to the lights on the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Bridge that I had photographed over Labor Day weekend. Red, green, neon blue and then a pale violet before turning red again. </span></div>
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While driving home from the art show in Oklahoma City last night I couldn't resist pulling into a scenic overlook near the Turner Falls area and checking out how well I could see the Milky Way. Sure enough it was very easy to see the Milky Way in the night sky despite being so close to the city lights of Ardmore, about 10 miles away. Those same lights revealed the silhouette of an old windmill, a perfect addition to any pictures I might take. I got my headlamp out of my camera bag and scampered several hundred yards up the hill in the dark to get a little closer to the windmill. The silhouette in the final image is still pretty small since this was shot with the lens at 16mm but I think it works pretty good that way. After all, this image is really about the vastness and the beauty of the night sky. It is also neat that I could capture an image like this within several hundred yards of the busy night traffic on I35.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-89259914978573045072012-08-31T23:43:00.001-05:002012-09-05T07:53:04.617-05:00The Skydance Bridge and the Devon Energy Tower<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm showing my work this weekend at the Arts Festival Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. After setting up my booth today I grabbed some dinner and then headed towards downtown to find a good location to shoot the skyline. I admittedly had not prepared like I usually do and was just driving and looking for something. When I spotted the Skydance Bridge I knew what I would be shooting. It is a sculpture on top of a footbridge which goes over Interstate 40 just south of downtown. It is constantly changing colors and I was able to frame the Devon Tower and several other downtown buildings just after sunset. Construction on both of these structures was completed earlier this year. The bridge is made to look like the state bird which is the Scissor-tailed Flycatcher.<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-11858420172001055932012-08-20T23:32:00.001-05:002012-08-20T23:32:15.447-05:00Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox ChurchI spent Saturday morning shooting three different churches with some of my friends from the Dallas Camera Club. These are two of my favorites from the trip which were both shot at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church in north Dallas.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-27419153584446116362012-08-08T21:51:00.001-05:002012-08-08T21:51:43.655-05:00Several of my favorite resources for planning my trips!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After spending some more time editing my images from my trip to New Mexico, I came up with several others that I really like. They were both taken before it became totally dark outside. The bottom image looked much better after I converted to black and white. It didn't capture any lightning but I really liked the sweep of rain in the background. These new images will be added to my web site. Next month I will be showing my work at Midland's Septemberfest. Since it is right in the middle of an oil rich area, I plan to have many of my pump jack images on display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yesterday I arrived back home from my trip to New Mexico to participate in the Ruidoso Art Festival. Anytime I travel out that way I am on the look out for images to add to my oil industry collection. These type of images sell very well at the Frame-it Gallery in Midland, Texas where I have some of my work. During my drive to New Mexico, I came upon an area of thunderstorms near Brownfield, Texas around sunset. I decided to see what kind of lightning display these storms would produce and found a large pump jack that would make a perfect subject to go with the lightning. The pump jack was also slightly illuminated from the lights of a drill rig in the area. For about an hour the storms put on quite a show. "Energy" was the best capture from my stop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I drove part of the way home on Sunday night after the show ended. The sky was clear and a very large moon was out. This combination made for images that almost look like they were shot during daylight except for the dark sky and all the stars. If you look just above the left side of the Pump Jack you should be able to make out the Big Dipper.</span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-37199013036991708392012-07-21T15:21:00.003-05:002012-07-21T15:24:28.683-05:00The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge Photo Book!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I just finished a book of my photographs of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge. It contains 40 pages of images I have taken of this new icon in the Dallas skyline. I have shot the bridge under a variety of conditions, from a flooded Trinity River to the fireworks during the opening weekend celebration. You can preview all of the book here.<a href="http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3409682?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240" target="_blank"> http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3409682?utm_source=badge&utm_medium=banner&utm_content=140x240</a></div>
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Hope you like it! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-13776210585513700452012-07-18T12:37:00.001-05:002012-07-18T12:37:20.056-05:00The Cats of Vernazza<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Do You Miss Your Pets?<br />Yesterday I was going through some old digital files that I shot in Italy back in 2005 with my 6MP Digital Rebel. One morning while shooting in Vernazza, I couldn't help but notice that cats were everywhere. All of the boats had been pulled out of the water and covered. Cats were sleeping and playing on top of most of the boat covers. We used to have three cats. One was a big Siamese and the other two looked very much like this one. "Sugar Bear" and "Shoe Shoe" were very similar except "Shoe Shoe" had white paws. One by one they grew old, had kidney problems and had to be put to sleep. This made me miss them.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7261513796012360469.post-64574783466770429472012-07-17T22:55:00.000-05:002012-07-17T23:00:48.273-05:00Cinque Terre's Vernazza, Italy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">My wife and I went to Italy in 2005. I shot this in Vernazza with my new 6mp Digital Rebel but also with my Pentax 6x7 film camera. Since I was selling large images (32x48) at outdoor art shows, the Pentax images were the ones that were scanned and printed. The images sold like hotcakes but I have always felt there was a slight bluish color cast from the long exposure that was necessary with 50 ISO film. Today I came across the Rebel files and processed this one. My skills and tools are much better today than in 2005. I would love to do this again with my 5D Markll and bracket some exposures for a little HDR processing.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13009070514432031505noreply@blogger.com0