This weekend, a friend came to town, producing a weekends worth of epic photo adventures. I am breaking it up into 3 posts because I took a lot of pictures. But let’s get started with Luminaria.

This event was epic, and I can not wait to see what they do next year.

It all started with this gate at Hemisphere park.

Danielle and I headed to the Tower of Americas, because I had never been to the top and we wanted to see what the whole park looked like from above.

What an awesome view of the park.

They lit up the park with brightly covered lights, and it was really pretty.

There were also all these neat installations like this one:

They also had massive projectors set up, projecting designs on the exteriors of buildings.

And people who juggled fire…

However, my favorite thing to see all night was the glowing pieces of rock candy (actually plastic) that were set on the hill.

Another post to come tomorrow, and some videos. This weekend was a little too epic, I feel as though I need another weekend to recover.

Spent a portion of tonight going through Adobe Lightroom and deleting all the old Over/Underexposed shots that made there way into my library. While I was in there I found this little gem.

I shot this in Ransom Canyon, near the little chapel. And then forgot about it till now. I need to go through my whole Lightroom catalog and see what other little gems I can find.

This weekend I have to start with Friday. In the middle of the work day, the office shut down to welcome Jack Hanna to the office. And he in turn showed off several of his animals.

Here he is with a Cheetah Cub. One of the little kids asked if the Cheetah is made of Cheetos. Sadly, he is not. That makes me a little sad.

After, I  headed downtown to see the first Friday artwalk in San Antonio. I have been to several artwalks in Lubbock, but this is my first one in San Antonio.

There where people selling weird things, like these

Then I saw a friend of mine from high school getting his Portrait painted, and I thought that was pretty cool.

Then I went and got cupcakes at this bakery. Since this is South Town, and I get lost easily, I have no idea where this is.

But the cupcakes are amazing.

Sunday found me at Breckenridge park on my bike riding around. I headed down the first trail I found, and all the trails seem to lead to this spot and then fork off in different directions.

On one of the trails was this little Tree house thing

There are three trails to ride on, with varying lengths. Each trail is marked with a symbol like this:

I believe this marking was for the longest trail, the wildlife trail. I did not see very much wildlife, but that is the trail.

My car was parked near this cool bridge.

The alamo is a perfect symbol of San Antonio. This week marks the 175th anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo.

This is my entry in the by the numbers challenge.

And here are my favorite pictures from Fisheye February. This was a fun little thing to do because I have not sat down and shot a roll of film in a day in a long long time.

First we have Comanche Lookout, you might remember this from a previous photo walk. I seem to have shot this while I was there. I also shot some instant film while I was there. I do not remember this. I guess that is what happens when you shoot half a roll and then forget about the camera.

This is one of the first shots I did this month. I shot this at Solado Creek Greenway. The fisheye made a perfect companion to my bike rides as I hunted for the creek. This was the only bit of water I could find.

Again, forgotten roll of film still in the camera. I shot this out at Cadillac Ranch on a final photo adventure while living in Lubbock, this roll shares many shots.

Like the one above of Allison, shot at Palo Duro Canyon. Allison always makes this face when she is annoyed at me. She is always annoyed at me. Maybe because I am always shoving a camera in her face.

Shot this behind Taco Land on a recent photo walk.

Pearl Brewery as seen from above.

My buddy Rob said this looked like castle grey skull. I feel the need to agree with him on that one.

This bridge spans San Antonio river, or one of the creeks that heads to it. This is down in Breckenridge park. A train takes kids around the park, kind of a fun thing. My nephew loved it.

My niece and sister at Kiddy park. She was being really shy and I was trying to make her giggle.

And here is my mom. She is a happy grandma, taking her grand kids to the park. She came here when she was little. She took us when we were little. And now she takes her grand kids.

What I have determined from this is that I enjoy shooting film on outings, however I do not always go through a roll of film in a single outing and often forget about the film. Something to work on this year.