I’ve spent the past couple of days trying to organize my images. I have a LOT of different images. Some I have posted here, some I have posted on my website, some on HDRSpotting.com, some are sold by local art dealers and gift shops. Most just sit forgotten on my hard drives hoping to be discovered. I am trying to bring order to this chaos . Not an easy task for me. I will be the first to admit I am organizationally challenged. An additional benefit of reviewing all these old images is I keep discovering photos that I had forgotten. This is one such image. I photographed this one evening when I was pulling some images together for Midwest Living Magazine. They were looking for images of 6th Street for an article on Austin so I thought I would shoot some fresh shots to try & get the assignment. They actually ended up using a couple of my images including another of my 6th street photos I shot that same evening. You can see that photo here.

The Continental Club in Austin Texas is another one of those iconic landmarks that are a part of every city. When I saw the old hot rod parked in front I pretty much had to take the shot. Unfortunately, the lighting was not good. If you look through my images you will find that I really don’t shoot much mid day. I really prefer late evening or early morning light. To make matters worse, The Continental Club sign was back-lit & quite blah. In order to try & get the image to pop I did quite a bit of (some may say too much) post processing. I smoothed every thing out to give more of a painterly feel & although the neon sign was on, I hand painted in the neon to increase it’s relative brightness. Now that’s it done, I really want to go re-shoot under more favorable light.

I’ve been meaning to do a more current photo of the Stevie Ray Vaughan statue for awhile. The challenge is getting the rather dark statue to pop out from the evening sky. This image is a combination of light painting & HDR. I did three long exposures of Stevie while lighting the statue and surrounding area with my super duper mini flashlight. You can see my other photos of the Stevie statue here.

This is another image from my photowalk I did with my sister during SXSW in Austin last week. Austin has a number of these 10′ Gibson GuitarTown guitars around the city. (Gee, you would think we were known for our music…) This one is in front of the Frost Bank building on Congress Avenue. You can see a few more of my images of the guitars here.