Travel Photography – The President’s Home

For you history buffs and for Matt Brandon just in case he gets homesick every now and then.
The Washington area was the site of the final home of the last president of the Republic of Texas. Anson Jones had arrived in Texas in 1833. Settling in Brazoria, he practiced medicine and his business thrived. Like [...]

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Travel Photography – Its the People

Photographing people has always been difficult for me. It takes tremendous courage and personal integrity to ask someone if you can take their picture, especially in the times in which we live. Its a skill that travel photographers like David duChemin, Matt Brandon and Gavin Gough learned long ago and practice every day in their [...]

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Comparing the EOS 50D and EOS 500D Cameras

Image courtesy and copyright Canon
Its only been two days since Canon announced the new ESO 500D / Rebel T1i and already some EOS 50D owners are crying foul. Especially since this new consumer grade DSLR borrows so much technology from its older sibling the EOS 50D such as its:

15.1 Megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor.
ISO 100-3200 (expandable [...]

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Landscape Photography – A Sense of Scale

Have you ever photographed a deep forest, a huge lake or an enormous mountain range and when you looked at your images later they just didn’t seem as “big” as you remember? This happens a lot in landscape photography since the camera itself has no way to record a sense of scale. Its up to [...]

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Nature Photography – Yellow

Sometimes you come across a scene that just begs to be photographed. You might walk for miles in the deep woods and find it around a bend in the trail. Or you may catch a glimpse of it from the highway and just have to stop and get out your gear.
You know the feelings [...]

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Nature Photography – Wildflowers and Fences

Last Friday I drove over 150 miles on the back roads of Washington County, Texas looking for wildflowers. Around every bend I’d find bluebonnets on the side of roads, in the farmer’s fields and next to the pastures full of grazing cattle (Longhorns of course). I wanted these two images to portray the rustic beauty [...]

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Nature Photography – Wildflower Ranch

I want you to know that no retouching was done to this image to enhance the areas of deep purple. This is exactly what I saw when driving past the Citadel Ranch just a few miles southeast of Brenham, Texas.
This must be why the cows think Brenham is heaven, Matt!

Wildflower Ranch
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch [...]

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Nature Photography – Walking in Wildflowers

I’m almost afraid to post this week. I hate to post cheerful, colorful springtime images when my friends in the Northeast are still under a blanket of snow and those in the Pacific Northwest are experiencing their usual winter of rain, rain, and more rain!
Springtime comes swiftly in Southeast Texas and this weekend the wildflowers [...]

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Black and White Photography – Find the Texture

Ever watch the “Heroes” TV series? They had a mantra on that show “Save the Cheerleader, Save the World”. Black and white photography has absolutely nothing to do with that. I was just checking to see if you’re still awake. Actually, there is a mantra for finding good black and white subjects, “Find the Texture, [...]

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Canon Sweats the Details

I know we all tend to gripe when the features of a new camera don’t quite live up to our expectations. In the case of the EOS 50D however, I think Canon has really thought through the details.
One of my long-time pet peeves is how easily the LCD on a DSLR camera gets stained, smudged [...]

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