When Cynde and I were in Chicago last fall I walked around for several days looking for new photos and enjoying the architecture.  I really enjoyed seeing the contrasts in the different buildings and the styles of buildings over the years.  One of the things that I particularly enjoyed was the contrasts between the very ornate older buildings with the very modern all glass buildings that were much simpler.

We stayed near the new Trump Towers and I really liked how the very ornate older Wrigley Building contrasted with the extremely tall Trump Tower.

I hope you enjoyed the photo!

Scott

I have been working through my Bodie images to put together a series of photographs to put into a photobook.   As I walked around Bodie I found the old bank.  The main building has fallen and about the only thing left is the old vault.

I hope you enjoyed the photo!

Scott

Yesterday Cynde and I took a road trip to see and photograph three of the 21 Spanish Missions in California.  The first mission we visited was the La Purissma Mission in Lompoc, California.  This is the largest of the old missions and it still has many of the features of the traditional old missions.  It is a state park and still has large grounds that demonstrate the activities of the missions.  In the foreground of this image there is a hide drying station and one sees the cemetery and the main church.

We had a great day of driving around and seeing some of California’s history.

Hope you enjoyed the photo,

Scott

The past few days I have been working through my images from the hike with my brother to Gorman Falls in Bend, Texas.  As I write this I am almost through my initial processing of the images I captured while on this trip and I will be getting to other aspects of the trip some there after.

I spent about 2 hours at this location looking for good clean compositions that gave one a feel for the the site and this was quite difficult in that there is a large amount of brush and small trees just in front of the falls.  The area near the falls is restricted due to the sensitivity of the area and I was photographing just behind the small fence which is a short “cliff” next to the pool of water in front of the falls.  I will like post a panoramic image of the falls in the near future and I think that will make the above text a little more clear.

I have been debating if it would be worth the effort to clone out some of the distracting elements. . .

I hope you enjoyed the image,

Scott

I recently took about a two week road trip to Texas.  I drove from California and on the first day I made it all the way to San Antonio, New Mexico.  I photographed the early light at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge and then got back on the road to visit Gorman Falls in Bend, Texas.  Well I got part way to the Colorado Bend State Park that day, but not quite.  I stopped over near Junction, Texas to get some sleep and got up early to visit the park.  When I arrived at the park I found that it was closed for deer hunting and would reopen on Friday at 2pm.  I decided to head for the coast and visit family for a few days and return at thee end of my planned trip.

Cynde flew in over the weekend and we traveled to Rockport, Texas to explore and watch Whooping Cranes (photos later!).  I called my brother to stay at his house and have him ride up and see the falls.  We drove up to the the park and we had a nice hike to Gorman Falls.  These falls just do not look like anything I would have expected in Texas!  They were amazing and we had a good time photographing the falls.

I hope you enjoyed the photo and there will be more to come from this trip.

Scott