GIFs of Far West Texas: Santa Elena Canyon, Pecos High Bridge, Big Bend Ranch State Park, Guadalupe Mountains

More fun with GIFs... This one is made from my video taken just inside Santa Elena Canyon in the Big Bend National Park (with a glimpse of Charles Angell, owner of Angell Expeditions-- highly recommended). 

This GIF (below) is of the Pecos River high bridge just past Comstock at the US-Mexico border. When you're driving on highway 90 you don't see the gorge until you're just about about over it-- one of the wiggier driving experiences to be had in all of Texas.

A GIF of the Big Bend Ranch State Park entrance:

Finally, a simple GIF, two shots of the Texas' other national park, Guadalupe Mountains, from who knows how many thousands of feet:

Hmm for some reason this GIF isn't working. Here's a good jpeg:

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Grokking the GIF

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Grokking the GIF

Well, yes, I really am working on the much-delayed podcast 21 of the projected 24 podcast series, Marfa Mondays (listen in to the 20 posted so far here)... but thanks to my IT Mexico City go-to guy, Rubén Pacheco, I have grokked the GIF.

The thing is, I love using brief video clips to illustrate podcasts and articles, but a GIF is lickety-split easier to make than a video, even a very short one, as edited in ye olde iMovie. 

Another advantage of a GIF: you, dear reader, need not click to launch it from YouTube.

This is the first GIF I made and it will probably forevermore remain my fave, because it is of my writing assistant, my dear departed pug Picadou (2000-2014), and her doting godfather, Mexico's foremost James Dean-channeler, actor Fernando Cattori. 

Using the GIF Grabber app, I just "grabbed" the couple of seconds from a video I took on my iPhone.

Here is a GIF I took from my brief video of the Pecos High Bridge near the US-Mexico border (I was traveling there for my book in-progress on Far West Texas):

[High Bridge Over the Pecos River, near Comstock, Texas]

You might notice I added another GIF to the sidebar of this blog, and there was one of BorderSenses magazine in this blog post from last week.

> To make a GIF from a video, I use the app GIF Grabber (free)

> To make a GIF from a set of images, I use the app Easy GIF Maker (99 cents)

> To add text to the GIF, adjust its size, and other edits, I use the webpage www.ezgif.com (free)

Here's a GIF of the March 2016 issue of Letras Libres, which includes my essay "A Visit to Swan House" (Una visita a Swan House),  translated by Mexican poet and writer Agustín Cadena:

> You can read "A Visit to Swan House" in the original English and also listen to it as a podcast.

OK, I'll go work on that next podcast now.

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