BEST OF TEXAS: The best of Texas photography ... 07 [" ... a 
horned lizard."] ... Pretty pictures on the radio ... coming up on 
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.


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