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