Posts Tagged: Texas
Fourth (of July) Photography
You didn’t think that Fourth Photography would miss the opportunity to take pictures on Fourth of July, did you? Christmas and Thanksgiving are definitely my two favorite holidays, but Independence Day is a close third. It was my first FOJ in Austin, and a very memorable one at that. Four of our friends came to town to visit – we had a breakfast casserole and mimosas to start, went to a cookout/pool party in the afternoon, and finished off the day with fireworks downtown. Hope your July 4th was as awesome as ours!
Capitol Sunset
I know that it’s been too long since I’ve posted on the blog when I need to update 6 of my plugins and WordPress itself when I sign back in. Sorry about that folks. Anyways, I posted one picture from this set on my Facebook fan page (if you’re not a fan yet, you can click “Like” at that link) and on Twitter earlier this month, but there were several others that I thought I should share.
A little background behind this set of images: my wife was out of town, I was bored, so I decided to go take pictures of the Capitol in the sunset from the roof of a parking garage near I-35 in Austin. Obviously, I wasn’t allowed on top of said parking garage, since it’s part of a medical complex near campus, but it took about an hour before the inevitable security guard came trotting out to give me the boot. In the meantime, I took these pictures! Hope you enjoy this unique view of the Capitol – I haven’t seen many other photos from this angle. And yes, I had to end it with the classic “burnt orange” sky.
Zilker Botanical Garden
Since I finished editing the images of our trip to Zilker Botanical Garden first, these pictures will serve as an interim post until the blog entries about our trip to Europe. Compared to the Chicago Botanical Gardens, Austin’s Zilker Gardens don’t have a whole lot to offer. But it was a nice afternoon spent among the trees before Katie and I went to a University of Texas baseball game with some friends.
