I spent a steaming hot Saturday at the hot rod show in Austin… there was so much to shoot… I hardly knew where to begin! I figured you couldn’t go wrong with one of these red numbers…

Here is Isabella at Ethan’s piano recital. I don’t remember exactly what she wanted at the time, but she probably got it.

I think I ate more guacamole that one night than every other night of my life combined… This is from the Riverwalk in San Antonio.

This is the coolest music store in the world! It’s called “Wild About Music” and it’s right in the middle of downtown Austin on 6th street. The store has everything on its various levels and I can’t even begin to describe all the memorabilia and music-themed goods inside. Be sure to have a look if you are ever in the neighborhood and you’re a music fan!

You can visit their store directly at this link.

I finally got through editing some of my backlog… as you can see from this Christmas shot taken at the Driskill in Austin. I thought it was so cool, I just had to upload it today.. even though Christmas seems a bit far away!

This was shot in downtown Austin on a cool day (not like today!)

This weekend I went to the Hot Rod and Custom Car show here in Austin. I ran around with my tripod in hyper reflective HDR heaven… the more of these I do, the more I see the world in HDR!

I was contacted by John Polk at Alpha Lee Fireworks here in Austin on account of that fireworks shot that somehow ended up in the Smithsonian — it turns out his company shot those things off. He invited me down on Saturday night behind the scenes of their big fireworks show here in Austin.

John mentioned to me that the fireworks shot got a lot of people he knew interesting in HDR photography… and they all were visiting my HDR Tutorial - cool!

I brought Ethan and we got there about 2 hours before the show. He took about half an hour to show us around the trailers, the shells, the wiring, the firing board, and everything. It was very cool and interesting, especially since I have shot so many of these things to see how it really works backstage.

He then granted Ethan and I up close and personal action while we sat right by the trailers. We wore earplugs because we were so dang close… I used a 10 mm, so you can see the launch point as well as the peak of the explosion here.

These were shot here in Austin with Stephanie and Janus at a cool winebar/restaurant called Imperia in downtown.

Here is another cool area of San Antonio where you can eat Mexican food in this cool place under the bridge.

Everyone loves the River Walk. That place is great. Both my tripod and I were at great risk of falling in the river as the crowds passed by, going from one riverside restaurant to the next.

I think I ate more guac that night than the sum total consumed in Guadalajara.

We had a company bowling outing this week… We got there about 4:30 PM and it was empty… so of course I had to grab a shot of the crazy colors!

That show is good… we had a little Lost party at my home to order pizza.  We noticed the pizza arrived 31 minutes after we ordered it.

This was shot in the ultra-cool wine area of ultra-cool Imperia.

Here is Jessa again, meandering in the full spectrum… not that anyone gets tired of her. She looks mysterious while trapped in the Nexus, where she just might eat a carby breakfast with Kirk then go on a horse ride.

This was created after following the new video tutorial entitled “A World of Textures” that I recently put together. Included is also 100 textures, depending on the package you choose.

I can’t say I really understand anything about this scary shack I found.