In late June, I was in Canada visiting family and photographed Jonathan and Michelle’s wedding in Calgary. I don’t photograph weddings very often, but will on request from family and friends who know and love my style and approach. Here’s a few images from the wedding.
Today is Canada’s 144th birthday. In honor of my birthplace, I’m posting a series of images from Canada that I’ve photographed since moving to Texas nearly 15 years ago. Sometimes you don’t notice the beauty of your surroundings until you return after a long absence. With every trip back home to Canada, I rediscover the beauty of my home country.
Driving through parts of West San Antonio, Texas was like being back in Mexico. This area of the city was rich and alive with history, art and food at the heart of San Antonio’s Mexican American community. West SA is definitely a must-see for lovers of colorful murals. Here’s a selection of digital infrared images from that drive.
Being a heavily Catholic country, Easter celebrations in Mexico are an amazing event to witness. Here’s some images from the Good Friday events in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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