Farmers Branch Vintage Base Ball Tournament

This past Saturday there was a vintage base ball (not baseball) event at Farmers Branch Historical Park, and so I thought I'd go check it out. Not only do I like baseball, but with the old time base ball connection to my great-grandfather Robert Lee Stalcup who played for the St. Louis Browns from 1881-1885, I thought it would be a neat thing to experience. Unfortunately, it was pretty windy and I did a terrible job of holding things steady with the telephoto lens. Thankfully there is Photoshop and I was able to salvage some of the shots.

Spring

A cardinal in our backyard.

Night Trees

I remembered to bring my tripod to class last night, and afterward I was able to grab a few pictures of these blossoming trees that were lit up by the street lights. They looked liked they were almost glowing.

Morning Pictures

I went out really early this morning in hopes of getting some good sunrise shots, and to get away from the city lights a bit I went north a little bit to a town called Prosper. I went to a place where I knew there was an old abandoned farm house and windmill, but unfortunately the farmhouse was torn down. I was hoping to light paint the house, but since it was gone I couldn't do that. But nonetheless, there was a nice sunrise, and once it started to lighten up, I noticed an old house with some horses, so it wasn't a total bust this morning! The bright 'star' is actually Venus.

It is amazing how much color is in the sky when it actually appears a bit darker in person.

And it is amazing how many folks are up and about driving along farm roads in Collin County on a Sunday morning - but they made for some cool photo opportunities with the 1.6 second exposure!

This is right next to where the old house stood - not sure what it is - a watering trough/tub I think. I think this was a 4 second exposure.

I like how the white house is reflecting various colors of the sunrise in the next 3 shots.

Evening Pictures

Zach, Ellie & Mommy

Random Recent Pictures

Spring is coming and we have this persimmon tree in the back yard that has these gorgeous pink blossoms - I was able to catch them at sunrise which added some orangish to it all.

Thought the clouds were cool - I should clean this up by cropping it a bit.After my photography class the other night, there was a bunch of these dogwood trees (I think) that had a ton of white blossoms that were practically glowing from the nearby street lamps. I didn't have my tripod so this was the best I could get - I will definitely try again here soon with a tripod so I can try to capture this better - it was really neat!

Just playing around with the tripod at night. This was for 30 seconds - I need to try again for like 8-10 seconds to try and make the sky darker - darn city lights!