Month: March 2017

Bluebonnets and Texas longhorns

Here is one of our favs from past images with longhorns family in the bluebonnets. This image we captured with 2 adults and one baby longhorn who was just too cute with its small horns starting to grow. The bluebonnets were good this year and you could find them everywhere even on this cattle ranch in the Texas Hill Country. The Texas Longhorn is a breed of cattle known for its characteristic horns which can grow very long especially in steers and cows. They are descendants of the first cattle in the New World, brought by Christopher Columbus and the Spanish colonists, and have a high drought-stress tolerance. Texas Longhorns are known for their diverse coloring, and can be any color or mix of colors, but dark red and white color mixes are the most dominant.

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We capture this image with this family of Texas Longhorn and her calf plus friend who stopped to pose for this picture in the bluebonnets. The mother is on the right and when we came the first time she took her calf as far away as possible from us. The second visit I guess did it. We loved all the different version of horns and this calf with his little horns were just too adorable in this field of bluebonnets.

Bluebonnet farmhouse lightning storm

I capture this the other evening while taking images of the bluebonnets at the farmhouse just west of Austin as a storm to the north was approaching slowly. As the storm continue this direction you could see a good amount of lightning in the cloud. Most reasonable people would of gotten in the car left the area, but this was probably a once in a lifetime to capture the storm cloud over this old farmhouse. This old farmhouse in the Texas Hill country is one of the most popular spots to capture wildflower images every year. You will see cars line up along side the road trying to capture an image from here. So after dark the storm cloud was still headed this way, so I pulled my camera and tripod back out and started taking pictures as this great storm cloud hovered over this old abandon farm house in the Texas hill country as lightning was striking inside the cloud. We were not sure we capture the strike but as it turns out we did. http://www.beecreekphoto.com/blog/texas-bluebonnet-sunrise/

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We capture this over this wonderful field of bluebonnets at this old farm house out in the Texas Hill country.  We had been photographing the sun set when one of the guys spotted lightning and in the distance storm cloud which was now  in view and we put the gear back out and hoped for a good capture of the lightning.  We got lucky and we were able to capture it over this field of bluebonnets.with the old farm house just as lightning was striking, This was a composite of two images photos.      

http://www.beecreekphoto.com/blog/texas-bluebonnet-sunrise/

Big Bend ranch state park from above

When we were down at Big Bend Ranch state park this spring we got approval to fly our drone in the state park and captured some awesome images of the landscape from above. This is one of the images showing the amazing landscape along the edge of the park on the river road, Hwy 170 and the Rio Grand river between Texas and Mexico.

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Captured this aerial view of Big Bend State Park with the Rio Grande river along with the river road and the US, and Mexican mountain range in view.

Bluebonnets from Big Bend State Park

Bluebonnet patch from the Big Bend State park along the River Road, Hwy 170. These lupines in the Big Bend State park area are different than the ones we find in the rest of Texas. They are taller, darker blue, more drought tolerant, and bloom in Feb/March. In this image in Big Bend National Park and state park out in west Texas and we found a few bluebonnets patches mostly along the side of the road. Big Bend State Park is a massive park that run along the Rio Grande River with Mexico on the other side. http://www.beecreekphoto.com/blog/bigbend-national-park-bluebonnets/

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Bluebonnets landscape along Big Bend Ranch State Park River road, Hwy 170. It was a nice scenic view from here with the road and mountains as a backdrop. These bluebonnets are a hybrid that allow them to grow in the desert region and they are darker and taller than any you will find in other places of Texas. Unfortunately they seem to only grow along the roads and many times they have to cut the grass along the road to prevent fires so they were cut in a lot of places.

http://www.beecreekphoto.com/blog/bigbend-national-park-bluebonnets/