Vote for Me
July 25th, 2008
Honorable Mention
December 11th, 2007
Way cool. The photo above received an honorable mention for week two in Moody Gardens’ Festival of Lights Photo Contest. It’s amazing what you find when you Google your own name. I remember submitting the photo a couple weeks ago, but I don’t ever remember getting an email from them letting me know I received an honorable mention. Oh well, maybe they sent it and my spam filters rejected it.
SurfTheGroins.com
August 27th, 2007Be sure and check out my new website, SurfTheGroins.com. I’m running low on bandwidth and disk space here so I decided to start moving my photographs over to SmugMug. It’s a way cool photo sharing site that allows me to purchase/sell photos right from the site. Check it out . . .
Pipes in Galveston? You Bet!
August 24th, 2007The surfing in Galveston yesterday was, well, the picture tells it all. Check out the rest of the pics in my Galveston Surfers album. The shots from last night begin with this one on page two. Special thanks to Billyblues at http://g-townsurf.com for featuring this shot on his site last night.
Prime Fishing Times gets a Facelift
July 28th, 2007I just revamped my Prime Fishing Times site. It now shows a nifty little graph for each tide location. Each location is book markable using the latitude and longitude of the location. The URL for Galveston Pleasure Pier looks like this: http://primefishingtimes.com/tides/29.285/-94.7883.
I still need to update the site with a legend for the graph, but I figured it’s better to have the graph up rather than wait till I find time to do the legend. I also decided that I really hate Internet Explorer. It really sucks. I had some way cool scriptaculous effects that just wouldn’t work with IE. What a bummer. Oh well, maybe someday Microsoft will get a clue and make their browser standards compliant.
New Camera
March 18th, 2007Well, I finally broke down and bought myself a Digital SLR camera. I bought Blair a Canon 20D for her high school graduation so I was seriously considering Canon. In high school I had a Canon AE1, but it was stolen my senior year. After careful consideration this time I decided to go with the Nikon D200 for 3 primary reasons:
- Environmental seals.
- Auto ISO.
- Viewfinder grid.
I bought it from Adorama and received it on Friday. I’ve purchased plenty of supplies for Blair’s photography class from them and have been very happy so far. They did call me to try and sell me some extra stuff, but it was by no means a high pressure sales pitch. I politely said no and had no problems. I’d definately recommend them.
After a couple days shooting with the camera I can say I’m very pleased. I love the Auto ISO feature and am very happy about the decision to go with Nikon. You can see some sample pics here in my gallery. The sun didn’t cooperate that well this weekend, so the photos aren’t all that spectacular. But I did have fun. I spent some time at East Beach on Galveston Island and also managed to get to Brazoria Wildlife Refuge. A couple pics are from my back deck. The bluebonnets are just starting to bloom and I’m hoping to take a little road trip next weekend to do some shooting.
Cruise to Cozumel
February 26th, 2007We just got back from our cruise to Cozumel. We ate lots of good food and drank margaritas. Spent some time sitting by the pool and drinking margaritas. After a few margaritas I mustered up enough courage to enter the international belly flop champioships which I won by the way. We also spent some time shopping in Cozumel, and had lunch and margaritas at Poncho’s Back Yard. It was a blast. Did I mention we drank lots of margaritas? Check out the pics in the Cozumel Album.
The Clumsy Custard Horror Show and Ice Cream Clone Review
January 15th, 2007Blair finally sent me some pics from the Clumsy Custard play she did last year at school. Not only did she play the part of the Clumsy Custard, but she also did the set design, construction, and painting, costume design, and worked on the stage crew. Way to go Blair! Check out the pics in my gallery.
Weapons of Fat Destruction
January 9th, 2007I just finished an article titled Weapons of Fat Destruction for my buddy Bob. It’s posted over on his website, naturallybob.com. Check it out.
Shark! Shark!
November 1st, 2006They say a bad day fishing is better than a good day at work. That may be true, but I can tell you that a good day fishing is way better than any day at work.
I caught this 4 footer this morning in the surf on Galveston Island at Access Point 10 on a chunk of cut mullet. I’m going to say it’s a bull shark until someone says differently. And my daughter Lindsay will be happy to know I let it go.
