My camera...

Today I was using a different camera, as my dSLR is off in California on a "vacation" without me. It gets to go see great things, meanwhile I am using a CoolPix which has gotten great pictures in the past but I wasn't so happy with it today. I'm used to having such control over what I'm doing in my pictures and this doesn't give me that. I guess, lesson learned is that I love my camera. This was one of the decent shots, Gayle is coming up on the ball and there's no traffic around so it's a nice shot of her in action.

Sun colors

Since the skies have been so beautiful lately, I decided to go ahead and try for a variety of sky shots. So, if you're tired of the sky photos, step away now...
I chose this shot because I could incorporate the trees and powerlines as well as the colors. The photo was taken at 7:15 am, as the sun was just coming over the horizon.

Country Sky

I am on a sky kick lately, or so it seems. I have been just enthralled by the beauty of sunrise and sunset these past few weeks. I only took photos today at those two times. This one is my favorite, though I got some where the sun was more behind the clouds casting awesome shadows. This was looking through a cattle fence and up through the trees into the sunset with the clouds reflecting and scattering the beautiful colors of light. Fall is my second favorite time of year to be outside, of course!

Austin in the round

This morning, we toured Austin on a Segway, those things are amazing and it was great. It did take me awhile to get the hang of driving and doing other things, like taking photos. I got a few and our tour guide snapped some for us. One of our stops was the capital building and I thought this was a fun perspective. It's the reverse dome like the capital building dome, this one going into the ground.

What is that???

Down at Aquarena Springs Lake this afternoon, I met a gaggle of geese. One of them I had a personal encounter with as he started talking and then walked straight up to me and ran his beak right into my camera lens. He then looked confused and backed up a bit and then looked at me some more before wandering back toward the water again. I was excited to get so close and yet wasn't quite sure what to make of this goose suddenly walking right up to my face. I didn't quite get a shot as he got too close, I was trying to figure out if it was a good or a bad thing that he suddenly made a run for me. I believe Eriq got a shot of him close to me on his camera. We shall see...

Sunset over Fort Worth

The sky was beautiful tonight. Storms started to roll in late afternoon as the soccer game was wrapping up. I was watching the sunset as we were heading through Fort Worth on the way down to Austin and it made the time go so quickly and we were south of FW before I even realized it. The sun and the clouds were beautiful colors and patterns and then even the traffic was not a huge nuisance as once when we stopped, I saw this and I just loved the lines and the colors and I was able to roll down the window and get a good shot. Now I realize, I have been on a streak of pictures with the sun and power lines, but this really is my new favorite!

Streaming Light

Admittedly this is nearly a repeat of a couple days ago. However, I was working to get the sun just placed along the power line pole and then following the lines off into the distance so it's a different take on the same basic picture. Interestingly, the photo was only take 6 minutes earlier than the last and the location of the sun seems much lower. Just a thought...