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An evening spent falling

josh — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:31:06 +0000

So the last post was a whirlwind but I just got back in a settled down and after some downloading and processing. Here are a few shots tonight from Perdernales Falls. The water level was a bit lower than last year, but that didn’t stop the chance to photograph this amazing place…

Simple B&W

josh — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 05:05:05 +0000

Did a quick conversion on this to give it more life. The greens were a bit faded and I knew going to B&W would revitalize it, so I dropped it into Silver Efex Pro 2 and the result is below. The shot is from the springs just above Gorman Falls. A wonderful place to hang out and shoot for the morning…

Oh it just has to be Texas

josh — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 01:39:22 +0000

So TLS starts tomorrow folks and I am pumped for it. Downed a massive amount of BBQ already enough to feed about 5 people and then went shooting (great idea I know). Settled down near the Llano river for a while to see what I could see and polish up on those long exposure skills. The water wasn’t flowing very fast, but the end it helped out a bit and I caught the shot below.

On the way back up the hill I found this old swing and snapped one more shot before the light was gone…

Last Stop ~ No where

josh — Sat, 22 May 2010 04:33:41 +0000

Last Couple from the road trip home. The Ranch House Cafe was on a stop somewhere past Roswell, NM. A few buildings and the sign was all that was left of this road stop. The cafe looked like it was out of commission for the better part of 10-15 years.

The old cabin was along the route home, had to shoot from the car because the wind storm that was coming in was pushing 40mph + winds that made getting out of the car not a hot idea. Unless I wanted to have my teeth whitened by sand blasting.

Captured with Nikon D700 70-200f2.8 on Lexar digital film.

You’ve got Mail

josh — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:37:51 +0000

So traveling home from TLS I decided to head to New Mexico and cruise around to see what I could find. And I found Encino, NM. Neat little place with some of my favorite subjects old building and signs.

First place that caught my eye was this abandoned Post Office. Great part, it still had a working mail slot.

Just down the street was an abandoned motel with and I quote “Lo Low Rates” Probably why they went out of business.

More from the road trip home tomorrow…

Captured with Nikon D700 24-70f2.8 on Lexar digital film

The Land of Enchanted Rock

josh — Thu, 20 May 2010 04:30:39 +0000

Yep, you guessed it. It is a BIG rock in the middle of Texas. This place was a great stop on the TLS a lot of different scenes all in one place. The rock formations themselves are wild. Layer upon layer of rock just bulged up out of the ground and has slowly been eroding back down to earth over the past couple 100K years or so. To me it looked like I was standing on a pair of Volcanic Cores, but I was schooled in the ways of Texas geography and am better for it now (Thanks Jeff!!)

Captured with D700 24-70f2.8 on Lexar digital film

Black and White Water

josh — Wed, 05 May 2010 06:38:37 +0000

From last weeks amazing time at Pedernales Falls. Had a fair share of some serious technical difficulties as of late with my computers, but I am typing this post on my new new and improved computer, so hopefully no more problems. And if you haven’t been over to his blog since he got back home you need to head over to Jeff’s site and see some of the spectacular photos he captured while we were out and about. More to come sooner than later from the trip.

Captured with Nikon D700 70-200f2.8 w/ Singh-Ray Vari-N-Duo filter

Finished in Silver Efex Pro

Texas Macro

josh — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:54:53 +0000

So they say everything is bigger in Texas, and right now the wildflowers were just going off full tilt. Jeff took us out to a place that had more wildflowers in a 100′ area than I had seen all year back home. The varieties were amazing and the colors were great. I got a chance to take my 105f2.8 VR out for its first trial run and boy did it not disappoint.

Pretty sharp considering the wind was blowing like crazy while we were out there.

This one was hand held at f13 to get the depth of field I wanted. Hand held in DX mode to get a tighter crop. ISO 400 to help with the wind.

Captured with D700 105f2.8 VR on Lexar digital film

Falling for Falls

josh — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:06:26 +0000

So these are some shots from the first day of shooting out in Texas at Gorman Falls. This place is wild, and honestly I don’t know how it exists where it does, but boy am I happy it was there. We spent hours there shooting and the light just kept changing the scene over and over again.

Amazing place to shoot…

Captured with D700 24-70f2.8 and 70-200f2.8 with the use of a Singh-Ray Vari-N-Duo filter on Lexar digital film

Road Trippin’

josh — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 22:03:28 +0000

So I am hanging out with my buddy Jeff Lynch at his Texas Landscape Safari right now and it is a blast. The places out here are unreal and if you haven’t been you need to come out here and let Jeff show you around, because if you don’t know where you are going you would never find these places. There will by more post once I find time to get all these great shots finished (maybe a few by the end of the evening).

The shot above was from the road trip out here, came across this abandoned lot that still had the Motel sign out front. For some reason I just love these old signs.

Caught these to set of petroglyphs in AZ at the Petrified Forest. You are not allowed to get near these rocks anymore due to people vandalizing and unstable rock slides in the area so I had to drop the D700 into DX mode to give me a bit more reach.

BTW if my images look funny, my MacBook tool a dive on me on the way out here and I have not been able to color calibrate, so just enjoy the pretty colors

More images to come soon…

Motel – Captured with D700 24-70 f2.8

Petroglyphs – Captured D700 70-200f2.8

On Lexar Digital film