About
Waiting is most of it.
Space City Frames is a one-person operation working the upper Texas coast out of Houston — Brazos Bend State Park, John Paul Landing, George Bush Park and Barker Reservoir, Lake Houston Wilderness Park, the Katy prairie, and whatever the Hill Country offers on a long weekend. The same camera goes to the car meets.
The two halves of the work look unrelated and are not. A nighthawk roosting lengthwise on a pine limb at 7.41 in the evening and a silver Mustang on a tree-lined road at 7.34 are the same problem: know where the light will be, get there early, and be ready when the thing happens. Most of what is on this site was made by waiting.
Identifications matter here. Birds are named to species where a still frame supports it and to genus where it does not — a crow among Spanish moss stays Corvus sp., because American and Fish Crow are not safely separable without a call. Two dragonflies in the gallery are keyed; the rest are honestly labelled as not keyed. A confidently wrong name is worse than no name.
Kit and Practice
- Body — OM System OM-1, 5184 × 3888
- Long — Lumix G Vario 100–300 mm f/4–5.6 II (200–600 mm equivalent) — nearly all the wildlife work
- Standard — Leica DG 12–60 mm f/2.8–4 — the most-used lens after the long zoom
- Wide — M.Zuiko 12–40 mm f/2.8 PRO (24–80 mm equivalent) — landscape and night sky
- Handheld — almost everything, including a green lynx spider at 1/6400
- Processed — Adobe Lightroom, from raw where the original exists
Field ethic
Photographed from the trail at distances that did not alter behaviour. No baiting, no playback, no approaching nests or young.
Captions carry facts
Place, date and exposure on every frame, read from the file rather than remembered. Where a location is not confirmed, the caption gives the region instead of guessing a park.