The Skies of Texas

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Jeff Lynch

Traveling through the Texas plains and canyons is feast for your eyes and for your camera. During the late afternoons the moisture in the sky is bound up in these billowing clouds leaving the sky a deep cobalt blue.

It’s hard for folks that have never visited Texas to understand just how beautiful our skies are. Being raised in the mirky midwest I never thought I’d see a sky as blue what we have here in Texas, nor clouds so white and fluffy.

If you’re planning a late summer or fall vacation this year or next, keep the Texas panhandle in mind. The folks in Lubbock and Amarillo are friendly beyond comparison. The cost for hotels, food and gas are among the lowest in the nation and plains and canyons are just begging to be explored.

And the Texas sky? Well, you get the picture!

View Location on Panoramio & Google Earth: Caprock Canyons State Park

The Skies of Texas – Quitaque, Texas
Copyright © 2010 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II set on Aperture (Av) priority using an EF 17-40mm f/4L USM lens tripod mounted. The exposure was taken at 23mm, f/16 for 1/15th of a second at ISO 100 with a Singh-Ray warming polarizer filter. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 3.

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Way Out West

Posted on July 14, 2010 by Jeff Lynch

Way out west in the Texas panhandle is a beautiful little spot just north of Silverton called Tule Canyon. Most of Tule Canyon is on private land but the section that cuts across Highway 207 is on state land and offers some wonderful roadside scenery to photograph.

Hit this stretch of road doing 70 mph or more and you’ll leave your stomach on the ceiling of your car in a hurry. But if you slow down to enjoy the view you be amazed at how much beauty the Lord was able to put in one square mile of land. Each direction you turn presents a unique scene to capture and I must have taken over fifty different shots in less than one mile of this road which dips down and back up over 200 feet in less than a mile.

Yes, everything is bigger in Texas, but sometimes the smallest parts are the best.

For those readers not familiar with our Texas skies, that deep blue you see is the honest-to-goodness “real thing”. It’s so dry here in the panhandle, once the clouds have gathered all the moisture all that’s left is a deep, cobalt blue sky.

Link to Google Maps: Tule Canyon Along Highway 207

View Location on Panoramio & Google Earth: Tule Canyon Along Highway 207

Way Out West – Silverton, Texas
Copyright © 2010 Jeff Lynch Photography
Shot taken with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II set on Aperture (Av) priority using an EF 17-40mm f/4L USM lens tripod mounted. The exposure was taken at 40mm, f/16 for 1/30th of a second at ISO 100 with a Singh-Ray warming polarizer filter. Post capture processing was done in Adobe’s Lightroom 3.

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New Canyon Posters Available!

Posted on July 8, 2010 by Jeff Lynch

I’ve just released three new posters from my recent visit to the Texas canyons. All posters are printed on Kodak Professional Supra Endura VC Digital Paper which boasts superb color reproduction and a standard archival value of 100 years in home display and 200 years in dark storage. Most orders will ship in 48 hours and will be shipped flat in a very secure padded cardboard container to protect your poster during transport. To keep things simple there is a flat shipping charge regardless of the number of posters ordered.

To order, just click on the Add to Cart button below each poster. Thank you all for your continued support!