Vultures Kettling Before a Cloud Build Up and Subsequent Sunset

From Blooming Purple to Green

One Wine Cup

Air Tractor Fire Bomber

Spider's Split at Bat Mountain

A hike in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge.

 View from the road of a large rock outcrop called Bat Mountain, our destination.

View of a part of the Wichita Mountains from inside Spider's Split, Bat Mountain.

My favorite thing to do, low-light photography. 

Photography artist Ben Jacobi sits by his camera as it takes several exposures. 

See his image at bjdphoto.

A large, large boulder sits on the side of Bat Mountain. This photo shows us sitting underneath it.

Spring and Blooms on Harrison and Speedway

Post Oak Falls, Little and Big

The "big" Post Oak Falls.

Little Post Oak Falls.

Update: The Post Oak Falls, "little" and "big," are found in the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. As an honor for me, I tagged along behind artist Ben Jacobi as he led me to them, all the while teaching me about the park, its history, the names of the mountains, and how to hike safely across the wet streams over which we hopped. All the while, too, I learned more about how to become a better photographer as I watched him set up his tripod and camera to capture a moment of time in the mountains. Before these captures, he took a long time to plan them by studying routes, the time of day for best light, which light he wanted in the image, the composition of each image. The photographs I composed myself of the wonderful scenes in the park serve as a reminder to me of the education and inspiration I received that day.

Cowboy Hard at Work