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.

The annual creative explosion of SXSW is about to begin again in Austin Texas. Every year at this time thousands of Music, Film & Interactive creative professionals & their fans decend upon Austin from around the world. It’s a fun time in our little town.
This shot of Sixth street was taken last year during SXSW. Just for fun I did a little tilt-shift focus manipulation to give it that toy-land feel.