Jason Frels

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Roadrunner. 🪶 #bird #nikon #newmexico

A rabbit hiding from me. Long lens with narrow focus depth blurs out the foreground leaves. #rabbit #wildlife #nikon #nature

Sunset on the hiking trail at Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge in central Texas. HDR merge of 7 images. Nikon Z7ii and 35mm f/1.8 lens. #landscapephotography #texas #hiking #nature #nikon #sunset

Just got the new photography book from Gavin Hardcastle. This is going to be good. #photography.

A blog I just wrote about photographing on a gray morning at the wildlife refuge. I chose a desaturated look for my photos. Looks a little desolate, but the place teems with life. A great solitary dawn hike. #hiking #nature #photography #landscapephotography #texas jasonfrels.com/2024/06/20/g...

Gray Morning, Gray Photosjasonfrels.com I had the day off and woke up at 5:00 AM. Sunrise is at around 6:30 AM and according to the forecast it was going to be a partly cloudy morning before rain moved in later in the day. So, that left me ...

Gray and peaceful hike at the wildlife refuge this morning. I shoot this dead tree a lot as it is easy to isolate against the sky. #landscapephotography #texas #hiking #nikon #photgraphy #nature #outdoors

My first experiment using Luminar Neo. A duck portrait using masking. Trying to see if this is a replacement for Lightroom and Photoshop. 🪶🦆 #wildlife

Rabbit in the park. Look at how reflective its eyes are. 🐇 #wildlife #animals #nikon

I wrote a blog post about using autofocus modes on ducks. #wildlife #blog #photography #nikon 🪶 jasonfrels.com/2024/06/12/d...

Ducks and Auto-focus Modesjasonfrels.com I am planning on going somewhere to do some wildlife photography later this year and it is something that I am not great at. So, I have been trying to get practice with the wildlife that lives around ...

Trying to up my wildlife photography game so I shot some duck portraits in the park this morning. I had great sunlight. Nikon Z7ii + Nikkor 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S 🦆 🪶 #Texas #ducks #wildlife #birds #Nikon #nature

Today I suddenly remembered that Christine McVie died not too long ago and that made me kind of sad. So I listened to As Long As You Follow about six times. I love that song and her voice.

A Northern Cardinal swooping in to steel the perch of a Painted Bunting. Shot at the Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. 🪶 #wildlife #birds #hiking

A beautiful female Painted Bunting with blue flecks on her head. Taken at Balcones Canyonlands National Wildlife Refuge in central Texas. 🪶 #wildlife #birds #hiking #texas #songbirds #nature

Morning in a city park. Leander Texas Nikon Z7II + 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S 🪶 #duck #nikon #bird

A blog I recently wrote about the waterfall hikes at Colorado Bend State Park Texas. #hiking #texas #waterfalls #blog jasonfrels.com/2024/05/24/w...

Waterfall Trailsjasonfrels.com We had a lot of rain last week and so this weekend I decided to go to Colorado Bend State Park and hike the waterfall trails. There are two waterfall areas on opposite ends of the park from each other...

Gorman Falls at Colorado Bend State Park was really flowing last weekend. It is mostly shrouded in trees, but still fun to hike down to go see. #texas #waterfall #hiking #nature #photography #nikon

I saw Nicole Atkins and The Mavericks in concert at the ACL in Austin last night and I have to say that was one of the best and funnest concerts I have ever been to. #livemusic #Austin

A close up of a firewheel in the rain. Taken at Inks Lake State Park Texas. #wildflowers #flowers #nikon #nature 🌸

A goose head sticking up out of the tall grass and wildflowers. Inks Lake State Park, Texas. #wildflowers #birds #Texas 🪶

Happy horsemint. Taken in a park in Cedar Park Texas. It is spring for a few weeks! 🌸 #wildflowers #photography #nikon #Z50

A couple of Bewick’s Wrens raising some chicks in a decorative birdhouse on my back porch. Nice to have some bug eaters around the house. 📷🪶. #wildlife #birds

A female ladder-backed woodpecker making a home in my neighborhood. Seen her at this hole in the tree the past few days. She hopped up and showed her ladder back for me. 📷🪶 Nikon Z50 #Nikon #wildlife #birds #Texas

My take on the Arizona State Flag. I really enjoyed the Tucson area. 📷🌵🌅 #landscapephotography #nikon #nationalparks #sunset

Some deer in the desert near Tucson Arizona 📷🌵wildlife photography with Nikon Z7ii

jasonfrels.com/2024/04/07/s... A blog I wrote about photographing the sunset at Saguaro National Park in Arizona. 📷🌵 🌅

Saguaro Sunsetjasonfrels.com I began my last full day in Tucson hiking the trails near the place where I stayed. There seemed to be public hiking trails every where around there and it was an easy walk from the door of my room. I...

A view from the top at Wasson Peak in Saguaro National Park near Tucson Arizona. A nice hike to the peak amid the wildflowers. 📷

Wildflowers along the Hugh Norris hiking trail at Saguaro National Park in Arizona. Taken after a hike to Wasson Peak. Shot with Nikon Z7ii, 35mm lens, and polarizer. 📷 www.flickr.com/photos/jason...

A spiny lizard that I often see in the park on the same tree. 📷 wildlife 🦎

A stream running at Saguaro National Park. Landscape photography and hiking. 📷

A Saguaro amongst the wildflowers at Saguaro National Park in Arizona. 📷 Shot while hiking with a Nikon Z7ii jasonfrels.com/2024/03/30/s...