This image was taken at the aquarium at the Houston Zoo. As dark as it was I had to put the camera on a monopod and lean against the railing to make myself into a tripod.

Everybody else seems to be on Flickr, so I figured I’d give it a shot.  Right now I’ve only got about 25 images online but depending on what sort of response they get I’ll probably wind up adding more.

One of my web projects met a milestone a few days ago with the 1.0 release. It took me over 2 years working part time, but 1.0 finally contains the full feature set that I wanted when I started writing ProofBuddy in the fall of 2005.

This little meerkat was sitting smiling at all the visitors walking by at the Houston Zoo while the rest of his group was laying around asleep.

This is from a trip to the Houston Zoo. I had prefocused on the red ball with the far right focal point (top point with the camera rotated) and started shooting as soon as the sea lion broke the water.

We’ve driven by the Aransas Pass Wildlife Refuge at least 20 times but never went in. Monday was the day. A June afternoon in Texas is not the best time to look for wildlife, but there were a few bugs and other small things out.

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These are from the same set as the previous thread on Black & White @ Zilker.  While I like the shot from the previous posting, and I’ve printed it at 11×14 and it looks great, these close ups seem to fit more with the subject.

I finally got around to getting a flatbed scanner this afternoon. The Epson 4490 had been calling to me, but I wound up bringing a Canonscan 8600f home because it seemed to be a better deal. What I learned is that a 4800dpi scan of 645 film works out to a huge file. The image below is a reduced version of a 234meg file that took 10 minutes to scan.

I’ve always been drawn to black and white images like this with some sort of machine falling apart. This shot is from the same trip as these two photos of a snake and of flowers.

These are from a few months ago when I went down to the Houston Police Officers’ Memorial because I had heard there was a good angle on the Houston skyline. Turns out the memorial itself was much more interesting, both from a historical point of view and photographically.

The first image is from the top of the memorial. In the center of the top level is a small pool surrounded by names of Houston police officers that have died while on duty.

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