My sight picture

Shiloh

Derrick Birdsall — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:16:45 +0000

I had a wonderful visit to the Shiloh battlefield earlier this week on the way to a conference. Here’s a little teaser of a shot, taken with my little Olympus point and shoot with its “in camera” panoramic option.

The Peach Orchard

A fantastic spot to work with a camera for sure, can’t wait to share the rest of the day’s image with ya’ll.

Book news!

Derrick Birdsall — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 02:11:36 +0000

Exciting news to share!!

Abilene Christian University will be publishing a picture book featuring my images of the Texas Frontier Forts!

For those of you who’ve been around long enough to remember, this project was originally taken on by TSTC – right up until nearly a year ago to the day – the college shut down its publishing house.

Enough thanks cannot go out to Margaret Hoogstra, Director of the Texas Forts Trail for her tireless work in finding a new home for this project!!

Sincere thank you to ACU for picking this project up and I can’t wait until we get books in hand, hopefully later this year!!

This project has been a labor of love for me, combining my love for Texas history with my passion for photography. I have driven and rode (on my trusty motorcycle) across Texas to capture the essence of our frontier heritage. Can’t wait!!

June

Derrick Birdsall — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 16:02:05 +0000

Anyone need a free desktop calendar for this month???

June

The last kiss of light

Derrick Birdsall — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:52:42 +0000

I always seem to hang out at a spot longer than seems prudent… but then again, the light has proven me right more often than not.

the kiss

Sheesh!

Derrick Birdsall — Fri, 17 May 2013 01:30:45 +0000

Hadn’t realized it had been so long since my last post… I’ve been slacking!!

Here’s a few pics to make it up to ya!

Caprock Sunset

Overlooks… they’re there for a reason!!

lines and clouds

Thor’s hammer

Derrick Birdsall — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:38:01 +0000

Every now and then, I’ll double up on a post and share a post that I also made on Facebook…. This is one of those times! I was quite pleased to get this shot!!

Mule-neer

Sawtooth….

Derrick Birdsall — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:05:59 +0000

Gotta love those Texas backcountry roads, something to see nearly everywhere you look….

back roads

Big Sky Country

Derrick Birdsall — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 02:23:05 +0000

Man do I love it.

Big Sky

South of Marfa, Texas.

Indio Ranch

Derrick Birdsall — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:02:46 +0000

We stumbled upon this old cemetery and I just couldn’t get enough of it…. I’ve shared a few shots on my Facebook page and thought I’d share this one here as well.

Enjoy!!

Room with a view

Finally!

Derrick Birdsall — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:11:29 +0000

I’ve been trying to capture some lightning for the longest time! Friday night I finally had the opportunity to do so.

A buddy and I were camping at Caprock Canyons State Park as the storm rolled in. At first there wasn’t any lightning, just a nice spring storm on the horizon. Before long, it started lightning and I figured that I’d work to catch a shot.

It was too light outside to just trip the shutter and wait it out. As I was traveling on my ADV motorcycle… I didn’t have a ton of room for gear, but other than a camera, lens, and batteries, I had thrown in 3 ND filters and the mount for the filters. I quickly threw everything together, set it on bulb, did a few practice shots to set composition, etc and let her rip. I managed to take about a dozen shots before it started raining too much to leave the camera out. TWO of them caught some awesome lightning and here is the first I’ll share.

gotcha!