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ConferencesNANPA's Sixth Annual Summit Kathy Adams Clark
Starting in the center of the state, parks around the capital city of Austin such as Hamilton Pool, West Cave Preserve and McKinney Falls can consume a half-day of shooting time. To the west, there are historic towns like Boerne, Mason and Fredricksburg with beautiful limestone and sandstone buildings. There are rivers with clear water cascading over limestone bedrock. The Guadalupe, Pedernales and Blanco Rivers offer great scenic areas even in winter. Caves with names like Longhorn and Natural Bridge offer wonderful opportunities. There’s even a cave called Cave With No Name.
Rock climbers, hikers and bicyclists are abundant for a touch of the modern. Two national parks are a day’s drive west of Austin. Big Bend National Park and Guadalupe National Park provide landscape and wildlife photo opportunities in a rugged desert terrain. The area south of Austin is filled with photo opportunities. There are missions in San Antonio, limestone hills covered in juniper trees near Leaky, and tropical wonders in the Rio Grande Valley (affectionately called the valley by Texans). East of Austin is the Gulf of Mexico and miles of coastal wildlife habitat. Whooping cranes winter at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, shorebirds gather on Bolivar Flats and every pool of water has ducks and geese. North of Austin is the blackland prairie with its wintering grassland birds, deer and turkey. It’s possible to photograph dinosaur tracks in a few of the area parks.
Historic building, scenery, people outdoors, birds and animals are all possible within a day’s drive of Austin, Texas. What a great place for a world-class meeting of nature photographers.
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Winter photography in Texas? Not one of the must-see areas on your photo want-list? Hey, you’re not looking close
enough.
Calvary forts dot the area west of Austin for a taste of the old west.
The major cities in Texas have great zoos. Native and exotic animals are on display in natural appearing
enclosures. Exotic animals can also be photographed at many of the drive-through safari ranches around Austin.
