Ryan on December 7th, 2008

Felt like playing around this morning.  Put a candle against a couple pieces of black foam core board and took a few shots. Next time I’ll spend the time and use a tripod though.  On all of the shots, especially the smoke ones, you can tell that there are some shake issues.

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Ryan on September 30th, 2006

This is from about 18 months ago, but I still like it. We took a quick trip up to Austin and ran out to the hike and bike trails on Town Lake to take some pictures.

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Ryan on June 3rd, 2006

I’ve lived in Houston for a little over 5 years and just heard about this park a few weeks ago. It’s near to the Memorial Park area, and is probably part of the same system. Odd feeling walking through the woods and hearing Houston traffic.

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Ryan on April 22nd, 2006

Ok, so it really wasn’t a rainstorm. But ‘flowers wet from the sprinkler’ just doesn’t have the same ring to it.

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Ryan on March 19th, 2006

This is an image from last year that I found while going back through my images. The color version was lacking, so I had skipped over it on first pass. But after converting to black & white, I found I really like the image.

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Ryan on March 17th, 2006

Ok, so I’m kind of in a rut. There’s something about black & white trees that really appeal to me. I think it’s the textures. This one is from Bear Creek Park in Houston.

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Ryan on March 1st, 2006

I know this is about 6 months late, but here are some images from when my wife and I decided that we needed to evacuate from Houston to Austin when Hurricane Rita blew through. Turns out there wasn’t even any wind damage to our house. Heck, the rose bushes still had all their leaves. Being [...]

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Ryan on February 19th, 2006

Last weekend we went away for a mini-vacation at The Get Away Cabins in Weatherford, Texas, just south of Fort Worth. The landscape is very typical Texas – cedar and oak trees, hills, cactus, and deer. This is one of the best features of digital cameras. To get this image the camera had to be [...]

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Ryan on January 18th, 2006

A sunset silhouette on Lake Austin.

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Ryan on January 18th, 2006

Continuing from an earlier post, here is another image from my trip to photograph the Brenham wildflowers last year.

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