timsdd aka Tim's Digital Darkroom

Too bad there wasn’t a land vantage point of this shot of downtown Austin. It would look really sweet @ night.

No idea where this is, I wonder if I could find it on the google maps.

This shot was killed by the sky and the lateness of the day, all the more reason I want to hit these during the day sometime.

Star flight. I think it was in our view no more than 2 seconds. We’re going ~? 150, he too and in opposite directions that really closes fast!

UT! I thought I only had one good shot of the entire University of Texas campus but this one is quite good as well if not better than the one I already posted. THere is still some distortion on the right but less than the previous pic I think.

It’s amazing how everything looks so tiny from above. I cannot recall if we were @ 1K feet or 2K, I think the latter.
The bridges to me look minuscule but they certainly don’t feel small when standing on them!

This one turned out really NICE in terms of capturing UT and downtown.

This one might be the best in terms of what the pilot & I had envisioned for capturing the church as dusk. Very tricky to get what we wanted though for a variety of reasons. I am not 100% satisfied with this but I think it was the best we could do considering the degree of difficulty involved.

This one really shows the park (Auditorium Shores) very well. I tdon’t think I’ve ever been to the end of it, I would like to check out the train tressel sometime for sure.

I think these next two are pretty tight (good shots IMO), not much I can see that I would have liked to have done differently.

Love this bridge, never thought I would be able to take pics of it from the air!
I thought there might be more than 2 boats on the water though, it was getting late, maybe they had all packed it in already.

SWEET!
The river really adds a nice element to the shot (IMO).
There is a cove 1/2 way between the Congress Bridge and I-35…it is Joe’s Crab Shack! I have taken pics from there before, it’s a good spot to shoot @ night and get the reflection of the building on the water. BUT, in the cove (at least one time) there was a ‘line’ in place to keep trash? from entering or leaving the cove…messed up my reflections!

I had no idea there were 5 bridges down there!
Obviously I need to do some more exploring :-)

UT! While it wasn’t my primary focus, this was prob the best shot of it I got. I need to see if we can hit it again some time, preferably before the temps hit 90 again!

First Baptist Church Pflugerville.

Can you see it?? A life flight helicopter whizzing by us. I’m not sure how I did it but I was able to find, track, and rattle off 3 shots of him. I had to shoot really wide though b/c I did not find him in time to zoom!

Capitol! Love it.

Tough Sky. I am thinking despite the huge shadows that we might encounter in the middle of the day, it would at least be a lot less haze. Love the vantage point of this shot though, can’t beat it!