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When we were in Austin in October, I took a few pictures of Emily downtown and at the Capitol at night.

Em and I went down to Galveston at 3am to watch the Leonids meteor shower.  Unfortunately, there weren’t a lot of meteors, but I did get pictures of a couple.
Leonid meteor (long streak in the upper right) over boats in the Gulf of Mexico

Sirius (bright star on the left) and Orion

Orion (bright fuzzy object near [...]

We had some spare time in Arizona so we spent a few hours at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens.  They had a monarch butterfly exhibit, and I got some pictures of all the cactus and desert plants.

Once in Arizona, we went on a scenic drive going north on AZ87 out of Flagstaff.  As the road curves around through the mountains, it’s absolutely gorgeous.  I made this video on my Canon 7D.  The song is “That’s What’s Wrong” by Good Old War. The road was a bit bumpy at times, but [...]

The next day we left the Harvard Hotel, drove by the Fort Davis City Hall building, and took the scenic route back to I-10 through the Davis Mountains.

On our way out to Arizona from Houston, Em and I stopped for the night in Fort Davis, TX. We saw a gorgeous sunset with some amazing mammatus clouds and stayed in the fabulous Harvard Hotel.

I bought some black and silver satin to use for a new backdrop. Em let me take a few pictures of her to try it out.

We had a decent storm come through a few nights ago and I got some pictures of the light through the window hitting Em’s face. The raindrops streaking down the glass looked like warpaint!

In my living room over my couch I have a picture wall with a dozen 8×10 pictures.  Previously, they had been all in color, but we decided to get a new set of different pictures printed in black and white.  They look so much better!  The color ones were nice but all of them in [...]

There was a gorgeous sunset the other day. This is a panorama of three pictures I took from my patio.