Posts in Category: Texas
Mozart’s Snowflake
The image shown below was featured on Light and Composition’s website as “Photo of the Day” for March 5. I thought that it would only be appropriate if I featured it as the “Photo of the Day” on my own blog!
This picture was taken during a Meetup photoshoot in Austin, Texas. There is a small coffee place near downtown Austin called Mozart’s that displays a large amount of Christmas lights around the holidays. Several photographers got together and took pictures of the various lights at dusk. The lighting was good at this time of day to capture the Christmas lights, and I found a good angle to photograph this snowflake light. That night brought me back to a time in my life when Christmas was magical. I hope it does the same for you! Click on the picture to be taken to Light and Composition’s website. It’s a competition, so help me out by clicking the “Like” or “Tweet” buttons!
Nikon D300 | Exposure: 1/60 | Aperture: f/2.8 | ISO: 400
Mozart's Snowflake
Spring in February
As you all know, the weather in Austin, Texas is slightly different than the weather to which I am accustomed in Illinois. I’m still getting used to the three seasons here: way-too-hot, not-as-hot, one-cold-week-where-everyone-complains. We actually saw some snow during the one-cold-week, which was refreshing. But now it’s the end of February: this means that in Texas and on the major league baseball schedule it is time for spring.
I will be selling my Nikon 55-200mm VR lens since the internal auto-focus motor broke. The repair would cost almost as much, if not more, than buying a new lens. But while I still have it in my possession, I thought I’d use it (and my D300, of course) to capture some spring scenes from the front balcony of my apartment (yes, I have two balconies). As you can see from the below images, it’s not completely necessary to have a lens that can autofocus. Hope you enjoy the “before and after” feature!
Over Texas
All three of these were taken with my Nikon D300 at exposures between 20 and 30 seconds at f/4.
Click on the images to see them on Flickr and get the full resolution versions.
