COWABUNGA

Two surfer dudes headed out on foggy Galveston morning.

Trinity Bay Pier

This shot is from the end of a boat ramp on Trinity Bay this morning. When the front blew through it pushed the water out of the bay by quite a bit.

BNC Boat Lift

This dilapidated boat lift is a remnant of the old Brownwood subdivision that is now the Baytown Nature Center.

Trinity Bay Pier

This is the shot that I ended up submitting as my "A" shot for last nights BAPC Honors Night Assignment "Less is More." My shorebird silhouette post of a few days ago was my "B" shot and rounded out my entries for the night. I had fairly high hopes for both but at the end of the day this one earned a Bronze mark from the 3 judge panel and the other shot was a "no award". I remain steadfastly committed to my quest for Gold! I am convinced the "secret" for me is not so much the technical aspect of turning in a well composed and executed shot but is more of a search for the elusive "wow-factor."

Trinity Bay

This shot is from the boat ramp at Thompson's Fish Camp on Trinity bay looking out towards the Fred Hartman bridge that crosses the Houston Ship Channel between Baytown and LaPorte, Texas.

Another Shrimp Boat Shot?

Another stab at texturing - I pulled this ordinary shot of a shrimper in Kemah from the archives and tried to kick it up a notch using texture.

Sail Away

This shot from the Kemah Boardwalk this weekend had an old time feel to me from the start. I used sepia toning in my post processing to add to that feeling in the final shot.

Tech: Oly E-3, 12-60 Zuiko @ 60mm, f7.1 @ 1/250 and ISO 200, Stacked Warming Filter [Pops Oranges and Browns] and Circular Polarizer, Aperture Priority Post Processing: Duplicate Background>Levels Adjustment Layer>Merge Visible>B&W Conversion Layer>Lens Distort Vignette