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FOCUS ON TEXAS
Hunting With a Camera
By Dacia Rivers
When hunting season comes around, many Texans load up their hounds and head for the country. But some folks prefer to shoot wild animals with a camera. This month, we received photos of animals from across the state, reminding us that a land as big as ours is home to scores of unique wildlife varieties.
Dina Pipes, a member of Houston County Electric Cooperative, snapped this picture of a newborn fawn on her property in Crockett.
Steve Kotzur endured the August heat crouched in a brush blind beside a stock tank waiting to take a photo of a buck quenching his thirst. “When you get your ‘shot,’ it is all worth the wait,” said Kotzur, who is a member of San Bernard Electric Cooperative.
While sitting in a deer stand near Sonora waiting for a big buck to walk by, Thomas Goedrich captured this picture of an emu family wading through the tall grass. Goedrich is a member of Bluebonnet Electric Cooperative.
CoServ Electric member Woodie Williams captured this photo of a Texas horned lizard while on vacation at Palo Duro Canyon. “This is the first ‘horny toad’ I had seen since I was a kid in Fort Worth,” Williams said.
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Little Helpers is the topic for our January 2008 issue. Send your photo—along with your name, address, daytime phone, co-op affiliation and a brief description—to Little Helpers, Focus on Texas, 2550 S. IH-35, Austin, TX 78704, before November 10. A stamped, self-addressed envelope must be included if you want your entry returned (approximately six weeks). Please do not submit irreplaceable photographs—send a copy or duplicate. We regret that Texas Co-op Power cannot be responsible for photos that are lost in the mail or not received by the deadline. Please note that we cannot provide individual critiques of submitted photos. If you use a digital camera, e-mail your highest-resolution images to focus@texas-ec.org or submit them on our website at www.texascooppower.com. (If you have questions about your camera’s capabilities and settings, please refer to the operating manual.)
Upcoming in Focus on Texas
Feb—Landscapes
Mar—Typically Texan
Apr—Smiles
May—Cowboys
June—Courthouses
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