Last night was a beautiful evening in San Antonio so I took advantage of the warm weather and went to the Old West Christmas Light Fest in Boerne, Texas. This event is held at the Enchanted Springs Ranch which is just outside Boerne on Hwy 46. You drive through holiday…
A few weeks ago I attended a conference in Dallas with the Texas PPA. I arrived a day early so that I could go to the Fort Worth zoo. While there, I spent a bit of time at the Gorilla exhibit. The mature female there is absolutely hilarious. She has…
I spend a few hours at Guadalupe State Park yesterday. Several images still need to be processed, but here are a just three of the ones I have finished. Monochromes work well for this area because the gnarly tree roots along the river just lend themselves to the high contrast…
We don’t get strong autumn colors around San Antonio but we can drive an hour to the north west to a couple of state parks and depending on the weather and the rainfall, we might see a bit of yellow and orange before the winter brown settles in. This year…
While up at Fort Worth last week, I went to the zoo. I have not started editing the over 500 images that I kept AFTER the first cut of the captures that day. And if that wasn’t enough, my friend asked me to join him at the zoo Thursday, so…
For those who attended the Texas Professional Photographers Association iHeart Conference this weekend and attended Shannon Squire’s classes, I have a little something here for you to download. With Shannon’s permission, I have turned a couple of her techniques into actions or presets so you can enjoy trying these without…
I started a new composite yesterday. I found some cool 3D elf images on one of my stock sites and a dragon so I decided to put together a composite of one of my favorite series, the Lord of the Rings! This one is about Rivendell, the throne of the…
https://www.thepixelmixer.com/PUBLIC-GALLERIES/CURATED-COLLECTIONS/COMPETITION Mid-September the Professional Photographers of America held their annual International Photographic Competition where photographers and artist from all over the country submit there best work to be judged for Imaging Excellence and the Grand Imaging Awards. This year, over 5000 prints and digital images were submitted for review. This…
I’ve been going through my Lightroom folders and selecting out images that I think will render well as black and white images. Today I picked this image of the Guadalupe State River Park. I use to live just about 1o minutes from the park before we sold our house so…
Robben Island is just north west of Cape Town, South Africa and the site of the prison where political activist Nelson Mandela was held for 18 of the 27 years he was imprisoned for his beliefs prior to the fall of the apartheid. While on a tour to South Africa…