paper and strings

The Zilker Kite Festival has got to be one of the best events in Austin. Anyone take their homemade kites and can enter different kite-flying contests, everyone else just flies their store bought kites. This year we got ours at Toy Joy for a fair price, packed a picnic, and waited an hour in traffic just to find out the road was closed and we should've taken a route to the other side. Oh well, at least we got there before the sun went down and had a great time. A couple years ago I produced a multimedia video for The Daily Texan if you just can't get enough kites. I promised Kyle and Lindsey that I wouldn't be "the photographer"today. What can I say, I can't help it. Here are some photos I took with my iPhone.

Zilker Kite Festival - March 3, 2013

afterglow & america the beautiful

Traveling around and photographing the American west has been a dream of mine since I first discovered photography. Kevin Russ is living my dream. I just discovered his photography today on Vimeo. He travels around taking pictures with his iPhone and posting them -- a modern Ansel Adams. The pictures are gorgeous and really capture the beauty of the American landscape. He photographs and edits the photos all on his iPhone. Inspired, I discovered "Afterglow," a photo editing app that gives you a lot of control and allows you to post to social media instantly. Digging through my photo archive I found a couple of photos that I took at McKinney Falls State Park that would work for this.

McKinney Falls State Park - 2011

McKinney Falls State Park - 2011