Photos of Texas by Texans

It was a warm morning with a beautiful sunrise when Assistant Editor Maria Sprow captured this nearly-surreal image in April, using just a nighttime flash and a lengthy exposure setting. The shadows against the sky are actually movements from the leaves (and hand), though they lend a certain mystical feeling to the scene.

County officials and employees (and anyone else in a Texas county) are encouraged to submit their photos for publication in One Last Look to Jim Lewis, county editor at P.O. Box 2131, Austin, TX 78768. If you want the photos returned, enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope and we will try to get it back to you in a few weeks. Also, our lawyers tell us that we can’t be held responsible for lost photos, so if you really treasure that snapshot, haven a 5x7 inch copy made at your local photo outlet and then send us a quality duplicate.