March Morning Caddo Lake

Cold March Morning on Caddo Lake, Uncertain, Texas

Found one this morning from last March at Caddo Lake. Passed it over completely the first time around but it jumped out at me this morning - and it was a really cold morning out there in the boat....hoping to get back to the lake in the fall....

Photographed using a Canon 5DMKII - 85MM lens
Post production entirely in Lightroom 3

Caddo Lake 2

Caddo Lake - Uncertain, Texas

 Still hanging in the Caddo Lake folders. This one today is one of my favorite LAKE images - seems to capture all the gothic mystery of this lake in one image....I am finding it difficult to put words to this image so theimage will have to carry the blog today...

On another note the show at the Renaissance Fine Art and Design Gallery is finally on the walls. Opening is November 18th, 6-10PM. The show is called 'Allusion of Reality' and all the images are captured and processed in the IPhone 3Gs and 4.

Caddo Lake

In November my buddy Al Hernandez and I decided to photograph Caddo Lake in Uncertain, Texas. Caddo is a huge mass of wetland on the border of Texas and Louisiana. We drove the 200 plus miles to lake from Dallas and chartered a boat to photograph the sunset and the following sunrise.

Sometime in the early 1900's oil was found under the lake, and, we all know what happened next - they built dams and starting drilling, doing much damage to the lake's ecosystem. Somewhere around 1930 the WPA established this lake as a State Park. The area has 200 species of trees, 100 grasses and woody vines, over 200 types of birds and large populations of fish, reptiles and mammals of which many of these species are considered endangered or rare.

Our plan is to make another trip back to the lake in the spring and then again in the fall of 2010 to  capture the lake in the various seasons.

Enjoy!!!