The Digital Capture of Light

If you've ever driven through the roads of Texas, you'll know that the countryside has predominantly two colors - green during te spring and summer and brown during fall and winter. However for a couple of weeks before spring starts giving way to summer, the roads are lined with a colorful display of the wildflowers. The Bluebonnet, the state flower of Texas dominates the early wildflower season and then gives way to a multitude of colorful wildflower species.

This year, we decided to combine the hunt for wildflowers with a little bit of history as we spent a day around the town of Independence, TX. Along with wildflowers that we saw in abundance we also found some typical Texas landscape - small oil rigs, major agricultural fields and ghost towns. We also managed to get some time in an awesome Rose garden and immerse ourselves in some Texas History. You can read all about it in our travelogue here.

Bluebonnets the state flower of Texas, 80-200@200mm, f/2.8, 1/2500s

An oil rig stands functioning amidst a sea of green and a sprinkling of yellow, 17-35 @35mm, f/11, 1/320s

How do you irrigate the huge farms of Texas? 17-35 @35mm, f/11, 1/800s

Ghost Town Gas Station, 17-35 @17mm, f/11, 1/320s

While the fuel prices have skyrocketed, thank god the telephone rates have come down, 17-35 @17mm, f/11, 1/320s

Have you ever wondered what the inside of a gas pump looks like?, 17-35 @24mm, f/11, 1/320s

True to Texas: pipeline, farm and flowers, 17-35 @17mm, f/11, 1/320s

Blue and Green, 80-200@185mm, f/2.8, 1/2500s

The first Black Church in Texas, 17-35 @19mm, f/11, 1/640s

Independence Baptist Church, 17-35 @17mm, f/11, 1/640s

Welcome to the Antique Rose Emporium, 17-35 @35mm, f/11, 1/125s

Lovely in Pink, 17-35@35mm, f/11, 1/320s

The pavilion and fountain, 17-35 @35mm, f/18, 1/50s

Indian Paintbrush blowing in the wind, 80-200@200mm, f/3.2, 1/2000s

Red, Blue and Green, 80-200@80mm, f/3.2, 1/2000s

A funky looking flower, 80-200@145mm, f/3.2, 1/5000s

White Rose, , 80-200@200mm, f/3.2, 1/8000s

A nice setting for a statue, 80-200@155mm, f/3.2, 1/320s

An interesting doorway, 17-35 @19mm, f/11, 1/320s

The Luckemeyer general store in Independence, 17-35 @17mm, f/11, 1/100s

The Old Baylor University in Sepia tone, 17-35 @20mm, f/11, 1/320s

These four columns once held up the Womens College of Baylor University, 17-35 @17mm, f/11, 1/320s

The colorful field behind the old Baylor University, 80-200@86mm, f/3.2, 1/2000s

80-200@200mm, f/3.2, 1/2000s

80-200@200mm, f/3.2, 1/2000s

The antique gas station by the old Baylor University - Notice the price of gas!!, 17-35 @17mm, f/8, 1/400s