Category Archives: HDR photography

Sky Creek Ranch Golf Club

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Just got back from a couple of days’ worth of shooting and playing the golf course.  This place is bigtime underrated.  Incredible greens, really good layout, very good service.  Never thought I’d be a fan of any golf course in the sprawl of the Metroplex, but I’ll play this one again.  Any day.

Lady Bird Lake

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With all due respect to the late Lady Bird Johnson and her family, I prefer to call it the Colorado River.  Just like I prefer to call it First Street instead of Cesar Chavez.  I don’t understand why people feel the need to change the name of something.  Why not just do something new?

Five-pound crocs

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crocs

Just got back from a week-long photo tour through Louisiana for Wilmax Construction. The last spot I shot was in Vinton, Louisiana, one of the southwesternmost towns in the state. In 2005, Hurricane Rita made landfall near there. I got caught in a sideways hailstorm along Interstate 10, just west of Lake Charles (before I pulled into Vinton) and here’s what I found at the construction site. After walking around for an hour or so in fresh gumbo mud, my Crocs weighed more than my D3 with the big lens on it. I’ve always hated Crocs, but this day was perfect for ’em. They’re the only shoes I can get clean at a car wash.

ConCan golf

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concan golf

Maybe I’ve posted this one before, but it remains my favorite from ConCan Country Club.  This is the 8th green, a few minutes before sunset.  Now that summer is just around the corner, you’ll find me here a lot of the time.  Man, I love this place.  Golf in the morning, tubing the Frio River in the afternoon, steaks and Texas country music at the House Pasture that night, then off to bed at Margarita Villa that night?  Show me a better place to ride out 24 hours in the Texas Hill Country.  That’s a challenge.

Tiger vs. Jack

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jack nicklaus 2006

It’s a silly debate, really, but here’s one argument in favor of Jack being better than Tiger, no matter how Tiger finishes his career.  Tiger’s birdie on the 72nd hole to win yesterday made me realize this.

I don’t care who you are, all seems right when Tiger wins.  He’s supposed to.  Everyone wants him to.  Everyone except the other guys in contention.  He has massive fan support.  Even people who don’t like him want him to win.  Jack Nicklaus, on the other hand, came along at a time when Arnold Palmer was the Tiger Woods of his day.  Jack won all those tournaments when everyone was pulling against him.  Arnold was supposed to win all those, and he probably would’ve if Jack hadn’t come along.  Johnny Miller certainly would’ve won a lot more tournaments in a Jack-less era.  Lots of other players would’ve.

Some knucklehead (Arron Oberholser, maybe?) was interviewed in one of the golf rags out right now, and he said Tiger is better than Jack because “today’s fields are deeper” and “anyone in the field can win any week” or something idiotic like that.   News flash, phucko: anyone in any field in any era can win.  You all start at even par.  Beyond that, and beyond Jack winning when no one wanted him to, everyone should respect what those who came before us did to make golf what it is today.

And if time travel were possible, there’s no telling what I’d pay to be inside the ropes as Tiger and Jack stepped onto the first tee of Augusta National on a warm Sunday in April.

Good views, pleasing sounds and familiar smells

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willie

Want to be one of Willie‘s neighbors? He’s selling lots on his ranch in Spicewood. Here’s one of ’em, just down the hill from his ranch house. That’s Lake Travis the Colorado River down there.