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Song For Ireland – A Photographic Journey

Posted on March 17, 2011

In 2006 I had the opportunity to take my husband’s mother, Bettye, on a trip to Ireland. She was nearly 80 years old at the time and had always wanted to go. We hired a driver and spent 10 days touring the Irish countryside. This was to be Bettye’s last trip – she passed away the following year. In honor of St. Patrick’s Day and in her memory, I created a slideshow containing images from that wonderful trip. Sláinte, Bettye!

Music soundtrack: Kila – Lemonade & Buns

Song For Ireland – A Photographic Journey from Carol Watson on Vimeo.

Photography Video

Prairie Solitude – Images of Disappearing Rural Life

Posted on March 5, 2011

One of my favorite series of images that I’ve worked on for over 5 years are those associated with rural life throughout the world. I created a slide show of digital infrared photographs from the series and it was chosen as a finalist at the Palm Springs Photography Festival a couple of years ago and was also selected to play at the very first Slideluck Potshow held in Austin, TX. Heres a snippet of images from that series. Below that you’ll find a link to the slide show.

Images from my Prairie Solitude series.

Here’s the slide show I created:

Prairie Solitude from Carol Watson on Vimeo.

Photography Travel

Tuscany – The Polaroids

Posted on February 18, 2011

I’ve spent time in Tuscany, Italy on 3 occasions. I stayed in or near Cortona during those trips with Keith and Tania at Casa Bel Posto. Here’s some Polaroids from my trip in 2009.

Photography

Happy Chinese New Year – Year of the Rabbit

Posted on February 3, 2011

n honor of my Chinese friends here and my co-workers in Penang, I’m posting photographs from my conceptual series called “The Rabbit Chronicles“. These images were shot at the Salton Sea in California and in Blanco, Texas. These are fun, silly and happen to be in the collections of a handful of “rabid” fans of the series.

Happy Chinese New Year! And welcome to the Year of the Rabbit!

Life in Mexico Photography Video

Riding El Chepe – Train Trip Through Northern Mexico

Posted on January 29, 2011

In early 2010, I went on a fun train trip through the Copper Canyon of Northern Mexico along with my mother and my aunt. It was definitely an adventure for the three of us and we can now check it off of our “bucket lists”.

I created a video slide show will some of my favorite travel memories of that trip. Since I had to travel very light on the train, I didn’t pack my SLR, but instead went with my Sony fixed lens camera for my still images along with my little Flip Mino HD for the the video.

Riding El Chepe from Carol Watson on Vimeo.

Photography

2010 In Review – Color Infrared

Posted on January 18, 2011

I’ve been shooting digital infrared images for close to 10 years now and this is the first year that I used a camera capable of shooting color infrared images. I had my Nikon D70 converted to shoot color infrared. My camera was converted by Jim Chen. His website contains information on the conversion process and a lot of great information about digital infrared photography in general.

Here are some of my favorite color digital infrared images photographed with my newly converted Nikon D70 camera in 2010.

Mineral de Pozos, Mexico

Statue Park, Budapest, Hungary

Mineral de Pozos, Mexico

The fair comes to Mineral de Pozos, Mexico

Circus in Mexico

Mineral de Pozos, Mexico

(Left) Central Texas, (Right) Las Vegas, NV

Hortobagy, Hungary

Budapest, Hungary

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Happy New Year! My 2010 Pictorial Year in Review

Posted on January 7, 2011

One of the many roof-top dogs in San Miguel de Allende Mexico

More ruins in Mineral de Pozos, Mexico

Night time reflections in Colonia Independencia in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

Basket weavers in the Copper Canyon, Mexico. I shot this image from the train.

Igor, my daughter’s cute little Boston terrier.

Texas wildflowers were the best I’ve ever experienced this year. These were shot near New Berlin, Texas.

Locked gates prevented me from exploring many fields of bluebonnets in Texas.

Mineral de Pozos during a festival in May. Multiple exposure.

Aria Resort in Las Vegas, NV

View from the top of St. Stephen Basilica in Budapest, Hungary. HDR

Prague, Czech Republic

Typical street scene in Prague, Czech Republic

One of the more amazing cemeteries I’ve been to in Europe. Olšany Cemetery where it is said over 1 million people are buried.

(Left) Terezin internment camp in Czech Republic. (Right) Blanco State Park in the Fall.

Another of the many village dogs I’ve photographed in Mineral de Pozos, Mexico.

Dia de los Muertos in Mineral de Pozos, Mexico.

Scenes from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Life in Mexico Photography

For the Love of Pozos – Textures and HDR

Posted on December 18, 2010

The new home of our art gallery, Mineral de Pozos in central Mexico, is filled with textures and colors that makes it a joy to photograph. One of the best ways to capture these textures is through HDR photography. These series of images were shot in Pozos and processed using HDR Efex Pro from Nik software. Some of the images are 3 shots at exposures 1 stop apart and some of them are single exposures.

The left image is a reflection in the window (you can see me near the bottom). The right image is a multiple exposure combined in my Nikon D300 camera.

This is night time at Posada de Los Minas, a beautiful boutique hotel in Pozos. It’s one of our favorite places to gather for freshly prepared food in their courtyard restaurant.

I have a soft spot for the village dogs in Pozos. I have started a whole series of photographs of these dogs.

Pozos is magical at night… Note the little black village dog in the shot too.

Pozos has a great panteon (cemetary).

Ruins…. beautiful ruins everywhere in Pozos.

Photography

Palm Spring Photo Festival – one of my favorite photography events

Posted on December 6, 2010

Imagine spring in the desert and immersing yourself in photography 4 days and 4 nights. I’ve attended this festival every year since it’s inception except for last year (due to another travel commitment). I took workshops from some master photographers including Stephen Wilkes, Jock Sturges and Steve McCurry. This year they will have a whopping 18 workshops to choose from! Imagine being inspired and guided by the likes of Graciela Iturbide, Keith Carter or Amy Arbus, just a sampling of the master instructors during the festival. The toughest part will be choosing among the sessions!

The photograph shown below was taken at the Salton Sea by Stephen Wilkes. I happened to be there attending his workshop when he took this shot with an amazing ring light!

Photography

High School Senior Shoot – Erica

Posted on December 5, 2010

Erica is the definition of the cover-girl-next-door. A natural beauty, Erica was a joy to photograph. Here are some of my favorites from the two photo shoots. Images were photographed in the late spring in Austin and Johnson City.