Making the Cut: Paul Chaplo selected as Featured Author
for Texas Book Festival 2021

I have been selected to be a featured author at Texas Book Festival 2021, the premier book and authors' event in the state! I will be presenting my new book "Amarillo Flights: Aerial Views of Llano Estacado Country." This will be my second appearance! 

Special thanks to the #TXBookFest team, event sponsors AT&T and HEB, my publisher #TAMUPress, and my exhibition sponsor #RedRiverPaper of Dallas makers of fine art papers for photographers. The entire Amarillo Flights traveling exhibition is printed on #RRP Palo Duro Softgloss paper! The exhibit is currently on view at the Lea Co. Museum in New Mexico. I hope to find a venue in Austin for the next showing! ...more soon!

Signed books will be available at People's Book in Austin, and from me! Great gifts for your Texana lover to read this winter!

Find my panel on the October 26th roster here: https://www.texasbookfestival.org/2021-festival-schedule/

Big day! Delivering the Amarillo Flights manuscript to Texas A&M University Press

Paul Chaplo at TAMU Press

manuscript in hand!

(College Station) Big day last Friday! My wife Cynthia accompanied me to hand-off the Amarillo Flights manuscript to Texas A&M University Press. We had a delightful visit with the awesome team on Lewis St.

Amarillo Flights: Aerial Views of Llano Estacado Country is packed with Texas-sized color aerial photographs of the Llano Estacado country of Texas and New Mexico. The book is Chaplo’s third collaboration with TAMU Press.

The book features a introduction by Walt Davis, former director of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas; former curator of vertebrate collections at the Dallas Museum of Natural History; and along with his wife Isabel, coauthor of the book Exploring the Edges of Texas. He lives in Campbell, Texas. He is author of Building an Ark for Texas: The Evolution of a Natural History Museum.  Armed with his experience in museums and as a practicing watercolor painter, Davis bridges the worlds of history and art in his writing.

Paul Chaplo is a Texas fine art and commercial photographer. His first book was Amarillo Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country. Chaplo’s commercial work as an aerial and oilfield photographer can be seen at www.oilpics.com 

Along with his latest proposed book Amarillo Flights, Chaplo is planning a traveling exhibition of select color photographs from the book, and is already moving forward with a prospectus, complete with professional art moving services.