I have not been out shooting sunrises and sunsets much lately, so yesterday I captured a few images of a sunset near home.

Just shooting around the house. A large nest in a tree empty of leaves for winter and a closeup of a "Nine Hole Brick" from the demolition of the local movie theater.

Sunset January 30, 2016

This is my entry in a contest at The Great Photo Race , subject- Cloud formations in greyscale. Photo taken outside the office in Pasadena, Texas.

Sunrise 2-28-2013
The radio was talking about a beautiful sunrise on my way home that morming, but I had to travel 10 miles to a spot without city and freeway messing up the composition.

Fresh Sunrise

Fresh Sunrise, originally uploaded by Noel C. Hankamer.

My schedule has been off lately, but today a storm passed over our town, waking our 14 1/2 year old Dalmatian who is afraid of thunder. So, I was up at 0430 to calm her. My wife gets up at about that time to get ready for work. I am off on Fridays, so I stayed up and when the storm passed, I decided to see if I could get a dramatic sunrise. A few miles from home while heading to a favorite coastal spot of mine, I saw this view, so this is what I got this morning. Back home by 0730.

Hurricane Dolly

Dolly is ashore south of here near Corpus Christi, Tx, and we will get some rain from it, Here is a picture of the western sky in Pasadena, Texas last night. These clouds are part of the extreme outer bands of the hurricane.