Last week my wife and I had the occasion to visit Houston, our former home of ten years. It was my first time back in over four years. Living in Houston never agreed with me, it's nothing against the city, just contrasting personalities. Good things did happen while I lived there, however. I met my wife in Houston, and it is also where I learned photography. I am self taught (which probably sometimes shows), and I largely learned my craft taking photos each spring of the wildflowers in the ranch lands between Houston and Austin. For that reason that area will always be special to me. At work I was known (not among the bosses) for contracting what I called "bluebonnet fever" each spring, taking a sick day here and there to go and photograph the wildflowers. Such dedication to my job. A model employee.
On this recent visit we were able to take a drive and visit former photographic haunts. I didn't bring my camera with me, but we did have my wife's new Nikon 1 J3 ILC (interchangeable lens camera). Below are two photos I made with this camera, my first wildflower photos in six years. With no tripod I was limited in what I could do, but they came out nice nonetheless. ILC cameras are the new rage, offering DSLR (or near DSLR) quality photos in a much smaller camera body.
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| Coreopsis |
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| Bluebonnets |
My wife came across a greeting card still in circulation that has my photo on it.
