Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

The photography in Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine is world class, and April’s issue focuses on the best of the best. Deciding what those would be was no easy task.

08— The process was tough. We have such amazing photographers; staff photographers as well as freelance photographers.

Art Director, Brandon Jakobeit (yah-ko-BITE), says he asked regular photo contributors to submit their favorites, and from there, the work began.

10—I printed every single image out – small. Then I cut them out, and kept editing the groups down until I got down to the final grouping that were going to go into the magazine.

He ended up with 16 spectacular photographs of Texas’ places, people, and activities. One image even caught him by surprise.

13—It was Dan Klepper’s image. It was this mountain biking image, and in the very front, looking at you at the bottom, is a horned lizard. So, that one was very surprising, and I thought it was a very neat image.

Brandon says none of the images were built in Photoshop.

17—Some of these guys use amazing techniques – like Tosh Brown’s image. You see this shot of a redfish –I’m not sure exactly how he did it—but I know that he partially submerged the camera, so you can see this redfish that was caught, but you can also see the guy fishing above water.

The April issue with the Best of Texas Photography is on newsstands now. That’s our show for today…Funding provided in part by Ram Trucks. Guts. Glory. Ram

For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I’m Cecilia Nasti.