I have a set of 9 photographs on display over at the Lakeline Barnes & Noble in the coffee shop. It’s a great place to go and hang out and see some of my work while enjoying coffee, food, books and great ambiance! Check it out and tell Lauren hi.
Guess what? I just had a photo selected of Mayfield Park Gardens to be used in the Austin version of the Schmap Guides. Pretty cool! Go check the whole Guide out and see if there are any places you haven’t visited in Austin before.
I have to say that I love to stumble across old equipment or machinery. Most of the time, the really good ones stump me as to what they actually did back when they were working; usually lots of parts are either missing or not in the right place anyway. So, I tend to photograph these things when I can. This is just someone’s yard adornment, and I think it’s pretty cool. I used Photoshop to make it into a B&W after teasing out some structure and texture in Photomatix.
Peninsula of Lake Travis, originally uploaded by wblj.
While out looking over Lake Travis from the St. Luke’s on the Lake I took this panoramic photograph. I’m amazed at the water levels still; hopefully they will continue to rise! This is a combined HDR photograph of 6 pan positions of 3 exposures each, stitched together in Photoshop CS4. One of my main goals in life is to keep making my computer sweat as often and for as long as possible …
East Texas Lake, originally uploaded by wblj.
I really like working with multiple images and creating a panorama. This is a fairly large pano (you can see the full sized image on flickr, so click through to get it) of a wonderful lake out near Canton, Texas. We roused ourselves up pretty early one morning and caught the morning mist rising from the surface of the very still lake. I took 3 images at each spot to create a series of 9 HDR images, then stitched them together to create this final image (1 image from 18 photographs!) Computers sure do make photography interesting…
While I was at the Texas School of Professional Photography this past Spring I stumbled upon this little guy eating an apple core. I’ve always been impressed with how “neat” and “combed” a squirrel looks! I’ve also wished I could spell squirrel without googling it 
