timsdd aka Tim’s Digital Darkroom

F4/3200ISO/No Light! Not ideal shooting conditions by any stretch!

The idea was to get some shots of the church right when the sun was going down but before it was too dark….we never did hit it right!

As you’ll see in the 3rd shot the lights were not on! This happened to us 2/3 times we went up…FAIL!

45 Toll Road aka MoPac aka Route 1….Texas law states that roads must have at LEAST 2 names….this one has 3!!

Told you the runway was short!!!

The lights aren’t on (not all of them!) and no one is home!!

New shopping center in Pflugerville, 45/130/685 intersection

Lake Pflugerville is obviously a man made lake, I think it was completed a few years ago.
I never realized it until just now – it looks like a big question mark!

A nice shot of the church @ 10th St & Pecan. And trust me when I say that it is bigger than it looks!
I think I already mentioned that I had to stand across the street in order to fit it in my frame on another set of pics I took.

I35 looking north…from where I am not sure :p

Somewhere in Round Rock, Texas :D

Normally your subject being in the center is a compositional no-no in photography, but I think those rules do not apply to aerial photos.

I was pleased with this shot, the church being in the center really shows that it is in the heart of the surrounding community. Those apartments in the bottom of the frame have only been there a year or less too.

Pflugerville High School (main building not pictures). This was the site of some of the filming for the TV series “Friday Night Lights”. During that time the front of the school, the sign was changed to Dillon High School. The church is just a few blocks away and in fact the crew used the churches parking lot of trailers, equipment staging, food, etc during the shooting.

While the building might look relatively tiny from the air, trust me it isn’t! In fact, with a 24mm lens(1.6x crop), I cannot even fit the entire building into the frame shooting with a landscape(horizontal) orientation unless I am standing on the other side of the street.

I35 is the road leading through the frame. The building off center to the right is a Cinemark 20 movie theatre.