Nice set of desolate looking country.

Very nice work

As some of you can guess, I love my home state. The Great State of Texas. Except for a stint in the army and job requirements, I've lived most of my life within those grand borders. I'm hoping to run a series of topics on my home. These are from the Big Bend region. It's on the northern edge of the Chihuahuan desert extending up from Mexico. As with all deserts the days can be brutally hot, killing hot, in the summer with the nights being jacket cold. In the winter, this area sees it's share of snow. These were shot in late spring before the real heat set in. As as a result you see clouds which you really don't see later in the summer. Hope you enjoy them.

While not the Rockies, Texas has it's own number of "hills". Toward the center you can see Prickly Pears, Yucca, and Pencil Cactus. In the foreground, Creosote bushes used to preserve telephone poles.

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The main channel of the Rio Grande, only about ten feet wide at this point. Texas is on the left and Mexico on the right.

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Don't know if the locals had a name for this formation but we called it the "Monk and Hand". Just a few yards off the road south of Terlingua.

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We saw cactus flowers everywhere. These barrel cactus had fuchsia blooms but we saw orange, pink, yellow, and even some drab tan colored flowers.

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First night at the Air B&B we saw this tremendous storm building north of us. It was in the area we had just come through a couple of hours earlier. Heavy rain, large hail(tennis ball) and high winds. Lucky because we had no cover for the cars.

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Just a few landscapes from out travels.

Texas gas it's own hoodoos. This was along the Rio Grande between Lajitas and Presidio.

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Downstream shot on the Merced River in the Yosemite Valley.

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If you can't guess this one, well...

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This lighthouse on the coast of Main is usually photographed from the other side. I just liked this angle.

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Rocky Mountain National Park at sunset. The color was weird.

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Photos of people don't have to show their faces to tell you a story. Sadness, despair, mediocrity, and a whole slew of other conditions and emotions can be shown by just the body. What do you think is going through the minds of the people in these five shots?

About ten feet in front of this soldier was a cliff dropping down about a hundred feet overlooking the water.

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This man may have been asleep, or maybe not. But, he did not move for the half hour we were in the area.

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Shot this from inside the bus taking us to a pyramid in Costa Maya. We were stopped by soldiers and they checked out our passports and the bus before we were allowed to go on.

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What caught my eye with this one in a square of some town we stopped in was the fact that he was not shining the shoes of the man in the chair. I guess they were just passing the time of day together.

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The feet again. Look at her feet. She didn't appear to have a care in the world as she and her dog were lounging in the sun between the levy's just west of downtown Dallas.

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Thanks Jimmy. I love to shoot fireworks.

I love night photography. Add in a few photographer friends, and a bunch of fireworks at Grapevine Lake in Texas and what could be better? Unless you added a few beers but we couldn't because it was prohibited. As you can see a lot of these do not have the initial white burst at the center. I think that in most cases that burst overcomes the colors. I prefer to trigger the shutter just after that burst to emphasise the colors. Hope you like them. Shooting fireworks is almost foolproof so get out there next July 4 and take a few.

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This is my favorite. Just like the colors.

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Just a few landscapes from my travels around the US. More to come.

Heading up Pikes Peak, Colorado by train. One of the other trains was coming down around a bend in the track. It was cold as the devil up there.

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Gay Cliffs, Martha's Vineyard just at the end of the "season" Tour guides last day so we went places we shouldn't and got yelled at. Everything at the little park store was half price so I got a yellow slicker. Note the couple on the beach in coats.

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On a lone lonesome backroad I found this wooden railroad trestle going off into the distance. Passed under and found a nice little trout stream. Near Breckenridge, CO.

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Tahquamenon Falls, UP Michigan. The brown is from the tannin in the water rather than it being dirty. Beautiful area.

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Great shot. This place is on my bucket list for sure.

Very nice set.

The photograph is beautiful but a lot of people are getting caught up in the technical aspects. I think that Robert is talking about the emotional taking, processing, and displaying of the subject. Many of us would take the photo and be gone, maybe to post it somewhere. People go, wow that's a nice photo. Add the poem and it makes people pause and think about the life of the wagon and the people involved in it's life. When I'm shooting an old building I often wonder what happened to the people who lived there. What were they like? What happened and what was said within those walls. I believe it leads me to look further and explore what I'm shooting. I took a few shots of a military ambulance in a field and all I could think about was did it save lives and how many didn't make it. It influenced my post processing quite a bit. All I'm saying is look beyond what you see.

Love them both.

My question is "Who cares and why?" Pay more attention to ourselves than celebrities and we would all be better off. We really idolize the wrong people, in my humble opinion.

Wow! Good shot. Beautiful bird.

I really have to write down where I take all of these photos around the Texas backroads. Just can't remember where the last one was taken. All are b & w conversions from color.

Actually a working tire shop in Midlothian Texas. Looks a little different now. Signs have been put up and it looks a little messier today.

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Part of the Grove in central Texas between Gatesville and Temple.

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Wider view of one side of the street in the Grove.

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Somewhere on a Texas backroad.

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