Jeff Donaldson, business manager at Jesse James Firearms Unlimited, was my host on the day of the shoot there and couldn’t have done a better job of showing...
Jesse James doesn’t like having his picture taken and isn’t particularly at ease in front of a camera. I guess that’s something we have...
A collection of aliminium assault rifle pistol grip parts after coming out of the CNC mill at the Jesse James Firearms Unlimited workshop.
A few months ago, I mentioned a couple of exciting jobs that I had picked up. The first has just hit the newsstands so I can now post some of the photos...
Rippy’s Feed Store sits on Mercer Street in the heart of Dripping Springs. We were wandering around it on Saturday as part of a 4-H photography group...
While searching for graffiti recently, I ended up at the Hope Outdoor Gallery, a huge public graffiti wall here in Austin only a couple of blocks from...
Ah, the delights of festival food! Frog legs are fine by me but do people seriously eat “Garlic Parmesan Pig Ears”? Yuk! This was one of the more...
I mentioned a couple of days ago how seriously people take their barbecue (which, for my British friends, refers to the cooked meat, specifically brisket,...
Another of the colourful characters at Founders’ Day in Dripping Springs last weekend. I’m posting this mostly for my brother-in-law’s...
This weekend is the annual Founders’ Day celebration in Dripping Springs, Texas so I’ve been spending some time with the camera grabbing shots...
Birds two days in a row – why not? This is a Crested Caracara which is a reasonably common carrion bird in this part of the world (though nothing...
Laughing Gulls (Leucophaeus atricilla) in flight in Corpus Christi, Texas. When I was a kid, we had many seagulls that looked like these back in Scotland...
Checking my Lightroom catalog, I just noticed that it was exactly a year ago that I spent a rather fun day shooting the Painted Churches with John Rogers....
Austin Rodeo is on just now but, unfortunately, I didn’t manage to shoot it this year. To make up, here’s a shot from Dripping Springs Rodeo...
The first time I visited the Pound House, probably a decade ago now, I remember being very impressed by the fact that the house had a cistern built into...
Jim Ferrell is the resident blacksmith at the Dr. Pound Historic Farmstead in Dripping Springs, Texas. My youngest loves to visit Jim on a Saturday because...
Ah, the good, old pre-FDA days! I can’t imagine that “Genuine Black and White Ointment” was particularly good for you given that it proudly...
I spent some time at the Pound House in Dripping Springs on Saturday. I had some prints to deliver to a couple of the docents and my son wanted to visit...
I thought of this photo recently when I saw essentially the same shot on one of the other Austin photobloggers’ sites. I intended linking to that...
The downtown Austin skyline is changing pretty dramatically these days. After a three or four year lull in construction activity, things have picked up again...
