Not all of Texas is desert and canyons and in fact, much of East Texas is filled with tall pine forests such as the Angelina National Forest, the Davy Crockett National Forest, the Sabine National Forest and the Sam Houston National Forest. These four national forests cover over 500,000 acres spread over ten different Texas counties and include some of the beautiful hiking trails you can imagine.
My favorite is the Angelina National Forest near Jasper, Texas which includes the beautiful Sam Rayburn Reservoir.
Angelina National Forest Lakeshore – Jasper, Texas
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 40D set on aperture (Av) priority using an EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens tripod mounted. The exposure was taken at 28mm, f/9 for 1/60th of a second at ISO 100 using a Singh-Ray LB warming polarizing filter. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5.
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Angelina National Forest Lakeshore – Jasper, Texas
Copyright © 2009 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 40D set on aperture (Av) priority using an EF 24-105mm f/4L IS USM lens tripod mounted. The exposure was taken at 32mm, f/20 for 6 seconds at ISO 100 using a Singh-Ray Vari-ND-Duo filter. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5.
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Texas Landscape Photography 
Love East Texas, spent a good portion of my life there…. but man I don’t miss the humidity at all!
Beautiful landscapes! That’s a part of the state that I’ve never seen.