Road trip to Yosemite and more

All my life has been pretty much confined to the area I live in. When I was a very small child, my family used to take road trips. I know this, because I have seen the pictures. That’s unfortunate and something I can now correct.

My wife and I went on a huge trip for over……


Total Solar Eclipse August 21, 2017 in Tennessee

I finally got the time to get some eclipse pictures together! Between increased duties at work, the long drive back from Tennessee, and hurricane Harvey, I have been a wee bit busy, sorry!

Almost a year ago my wife and I decided we were going to go see the total solar eclipse 2017. Looking at a……


Big skies and light painting in Terlingua Texas

I got a chance to spend a few days in a little town called Terlingua about twelve miles north of the Mexico border right between the Big Bend National and Big Bend State parks. This is one of those trips that the weather and time of year needed to be perfect for and they were.

This……


New name and logo

Welcome to the new Paper Bird Images, formerly Allan Hall Photography. This change will consolidate names, logos and more making things easier and giving all sites a more artistic direction. In addition to this site, Falcon Technologies, my technology focused company I have had  since the nineties has changed to Paper Bird Tek. You may……


Time for a new coat of paint!

Finally I got around to putting together a more modern website. This one should be much faster, cleaner, display better on mobile devices and will start to show a lot more information over time.

For nostalgia here is an image of the old site, which in all fairness held up quite well for many years.


Its been a while, but there is a reason…

It has been a long time since I posted here, things have been crazy busy. Although my standard commercial photography has been part of that, unfortunately some of the other things I enjoy such as shooting sports have had to take a back seat while I completed something I never thought I would actually do,……


Space Shuttle Endeavour’s last flight

This past week I was fortunate enough to be in Houston when NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavour was flown through on it’s way to California. I have never been lucky enough to actually see one of the shuttles in person so I made the quick trip to the other side of town to shoot a few……


Annular solar eclipse road trip and more!

My wife and I decided to travel to Albuquerque New Mexico for the annular solar eclipse, that is where the moon comes directly between the sun and our little earth. We choose that city because it was far enough west to see the complete annular part of the eclipse and was directly on the center……


Bearkats take down Houston 5-4

You could not have asked for a nicer evening for baseball, it was warm and clear, and of course a fun close game with the Kats on top. For baseball fans, it just doesn’t get any better than this. Right fielder Jake Arrington even came away with a home run in the seventh inning making……


NCAA Quarterfinals, SHSU vs MSU

Yesterday was a heck of a game with #1 ranked Sam Houston State University pitted against Montana State University who just came off a 48-10 victory in the NCAA quarterfinals. MSU started out strong, and no wonder with their reported 750 fans in the stands. Unfortunately, like a steam roller, SHSU built up power……