A big thanks to Steve Allison for becoming the first person to contribute to the “Work for Hire” experiment.
Steve purchased the “West Texas Windmill Adventure” package for the bargain rate of $7.34. Yesterday evening, I headed out with my super-hot assistant to the local windmill farm, and captured this one for Steve. I [...]

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We spent the weekend in DFW with our friends, and decided to take the scenic route back to Abilene. Instead of boring old I-20, we took Highway 180 which had us passing through Weatherford, Mineral Wells, Breckenridge, Albany and numerous other small towns. The road brought us into Abilene from the northeast, right [...]

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On Sunday, the high was around 80 degrees. Warm, sunny, if a little windy. Then, this morning, we woke up to about 38 degrees, and were told that was the high for today, and to expect snow and rain. Quite a swing for a 24-hour period! But, the snow and clouds [...]

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I was bringing groceries in from the car when I saw this sliver of sky between my house and my neighbor’s. I ran inside to grab my camera before the light was gone completely and managed to capture this. The deep blues and the subtle golds as the sun slipped below the horizon [...]

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One year ago today we left Kruger National Park for the long, long drive down to KwaZulu-Natal and my former home. We were trapped for a good 30 minutes by this family of elephants on our way out of the park, so I took advantage of the opportunity to snap a few shots of [...]

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