Pedernales Falls State Park

This last weekend, Carolyn, Catherine and myself went for a hike at Pedernales Falls State Park. It is only about a 30-45 minute drive from downtown Austin and despite the lack of rain in central Texas, it was quite a site to see. Without the usual water rapidly coming down the river, it exposes these massive rocks that would normally just be peaking out of the surface of the water. I managed to get a few good shots while out at Pedernales Falls and hopefully I am able to go on more hikes in the coming weeks, especially since Texas has decided to finally have temperature below 85 degrees for once.

Pedernales Falls Again, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Pedernales Falls Panoramic, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Time Lapse Camera

Not quite sure if you remember my Time Lapse project from way back when, but I ran into quite a few problems with my equipment. Firstly, putting the strain of taking thousands of photos with my DSLR with the only purpose to be importing it into a video was starting to get costly. It actually cause my 40D to Error 99 on me a few times. Today, however, I stumbled upon a camera that would help get rid of all of those problems!

It is a Digital Time Lapse Camera, from PhotoJojo. Go check it out:
http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/time-lapse-camera/

For $150 and being water proof it is quite nice! It even gives you a few different choices on how often to take the pictures and then saves it all in a video for you!

It is a nice alternative to taking quick and easy time lapse movies, but I think I would miss the creative control when it comes down to editing the final JPEGs to get my own personal look and feel into the project. Since I am not that much of a After Effects guru, I think I will just settle for the rare occasions that I use my DSLR for this.

Night at Panama City Pier

While I was on my trip to see the Space Shuttle Atlantis take off for the final time, we stopped in Panama City for a couple days. One of the nights, I went down to the beach with my family around 10:00pm and snapped a few shots of the pier that was there. This shot is one of my favorites from the trip and I even have a black and white version of this same shot that I really like just as much. Maybe I will post it at some time in the future.

Night at Panama City Pier, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Atlantis Says Goodbye

Have not posted in a while, mostly because my flickr Pro account ran out and I am afraid of loosing all my photos. Anyway, I had to upload a picture from my trip to see Atlantis take off. It was an amazing experience that I will never forget.

Atlantis Says Goodbye, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Learned Alpha Spotter 62

I am a sucker for destroying the rule of thirds in photography. That is all.

Learned Alpha Spotter 62, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Teddy via Argus C3

I am not sure if I have mentioned it yet, but I received a new camera from eBay. The camera that I am talking about is an Argus C3. Before I received the Argus I had no knowledge of what it was capable of or just how much of a cult following it really had. So the day I received it, I bought a couple rolls of film to pop in and start snapping. Lets just say a good 99% of the shots either did not turn out at all or were so blurry from camera shake that it was near impossible to make them out. The only one that came out well enough for me to show was this one of Teddy.

Since the last roll finished, I took apart the camera, cleaned the lens and viewfinders and also found out I had been shooting on Bulb mode the entire time I have been using this camera. That would explain all the camera shake on the photographs. So hopefully the next couple rolls will come out better now that this has been fixed.

Teddy via Argus C3, originally uploaded by griffithgreg.

Battle at F-Stop Ridge

I just found it and had to share it with everybody. Great video.