Thank You . . .

. . . to Christina Lawrie for her recent recommendation about this image and about my work on Google+.  Although I enjoy photographing many subjects, I especially enjoy the beauty that can be found in the Texas Hill Country.  I discovered this waterfall through another photographer and made this shot at evening time.  This is, of course, before the worst of the drought and the creek had quite a bit of water running.

I must share a further story about this particular image. Shortly after making it, I ended up in the hospital with pneumonia.  That resulted from an uncommon respiratory infection that the doctor told me came from water's mist.  The only place I had been that had splashing water was this waterfall.  While I am not convinced the falls caused the illness, my family is.  They refer to this as the shot that gave me pneumonia!

This creek is called "Curry Creek" and is a branch of the Guadalupe River.  It is found off an old ranch road between the Texas towns of Boerne and Sisterdale.  Definitely an out-of-the-way location.  I hope you enjoy this glimpse of nature's beauty, Texas-style.

The Traveler

My favorite subject:  roads.  To complement the several autumn road shots I have previously posted here and on Google+, here is a winter road for your contemplation.  In the snowy cold, who else was traveling this road?  Where had they been?  Where were they going?  Only the traveler knows for sure.

Wordless Wednesday

For #wordlesswednesday (Twitter), this one speaks for itself:

A Little Blurb About Trees

I'm preparing for another trip to Maine so have had little time to add to my blog.  I posted this same shot on Google+ and thought I would share it here as well.  Traditionally, I have always looked at trees as living things with trunks and limbs and leaves.  As a kid, I liked to learn about the different species of trees in my area and try to pick them out when I was out walking.  I still love trees and can't imagine ever having a yard without at least two.  But now I also look at trees in terms of making photographs:  what are their shapes, lines and colors?  What does the light surrounding them look like?  Should they be included or excluded from an image?  Should they be the subject of an image?  The most amazing thing to me is how trees can become abstract art.  Thanks to Brenda Tharp and others, I now enjoy creating abstract images from trees.  If you have not tried it, do so--experiment and be creative!  The image below is one of my two favorite shots of tree abstracts.  This one came from, where else, Maine!