Getting Used to the Daily Grind

This morning we had to be up early to get on the van at 7 a.m. We headed down TX road 377 and stopped alongside the road to take photos of the wildflowers that blanket the land. I took a different approach and got down level with the flowers. I used my telephoto lens to zoom across a sea of red flowers to focus in on a single yellow flower. Then I did this again only opposite. It was quite a muggy day because it had rained on our way out there. After about an hour of shooting wildflowers we headed on down the road to stop and have breakfast. The campus had packed us a cereal breakfast complete with fruit and granola bars. Both the photography and video classes spread out along the boulders and rocks that are scattered along 377.

We headed to Mason which is about an hour outside of Junction. Wyman took us down yet another long and winding dirt road until he stopped just outside a gated wildlife reserve. Wyman headed inside the wildlife reserve to ask permission for the class to photograph the landscape. While Wyman was inside the reserve I got out of the van and took some wildflower photos with my digital camera. These are the two good shots I got:

After we got back to Junction, Wyman told us that we had the afternoon off and that we would meet again after dinner to go light paint the Roosevelt Church. My class decided to go float the river, so we picked a inner tube and headed to the river that runs through the Junction campus. The river is quite shallow for the most part, but Erin, Mica and I discovered that more often than not we wound up running into the riverbank. Erin kept getting out of her tube and dragging Mica and I out of the riverbank and on down the river. Thanks Erin!