totempool.com
I try to escape from the texas summer heat each year. You can follow my almost daily photo blog from the middle of the Pacific Ocean for the month of August at totempool.com
recent landscape work
I love landscape photography. The way the light changes every 30 seconds and the way waiting always seems to have a big payoff in some undiscovered color or light reflection. To me being outside at the golden hour is like being in god's photo studio. I'm lucky that I'm seeing more demand from clients for my landscape work, here are →
New Mexico and West Texas
I was in Santa Fe last week visiting Bruce Gray who makes amazing handmade percussion instruments and Miranda Gray who is an equally amazing Egg Tempera painter. We made a stops in Marfa, Ft Davis and White Sands along the way. Here are some photos from the road trip: see the entire flickr set Brian Birzeris a freelance photographer, available for travel and →
Dia de Los Muertos
Dia de Los Muertos was celebrated a week early this year in Austin. As part of the MEXIC-ARTE MUSEUM's VIVA LA VIDA FEST. Here are some photos: check out the flickr set here Brian Birzer is a freelance photographer
August in California
August in Texas is brutal, this year was a record breaker, luckily I was able to spend most of the month in California. Specifically San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, all places that I have lived before. There seemed to be a common dance theme in each place I went, perhaps they were just as happy to be out →
Big Island Hawaii
I spent the first part of June on the Big Island in Hawaii, After flying into Kona on the west coast, we spent a few days on a coffee plantation, then went to the south shore Puna District, were we spent a week at the Ramashala Yoga Retreat. The Ashram was a stone’s throw from the black sand beaches that →
Range Life
I spend the weekend at the family Ranch in Utopia Texas. There was a full moon and it gave me a opportunity to shoot some of the cousins in the old cattle bins.Full moon on the porchin the cattle bin
So Cal Photos and the Canon 50 1.2 L
I just got back from a week in Southern California, splitting my time between family and friends in Santa Barbara and Laguna Beach. The Canon 50 1.2L was the only lens I took on my camera, with the intention of shooting a lot of photos and being able to assess it's limitations and decide wither or not to keep it.I →
