This is Volume IV of "A Lens on Texas", a four-volume photo-and-history centric book on Texas. This effort started as just a pure photo-book showcasing the author's 20 years of Texas regional landscape photography. However, Texas being Texas, it soon morphed to include a deeper dive into the history of Texas and its cultural aspects, supplemented by the author’s equally-extensive journal of photography of the places where this history occurred. The result is a unique and beautiful set providing a chronologically curated history of Texas, supplemented with side-bars, insights, analysis and photography that help bring the story alive.

The set concludes with this Volume IV, a stand-alone photo-book dedicated to the author's favorite areas across Texas' vast and varied regional landscapes. It begins with a discussion of the regional physiography of Texas, and then presents Photo-Essays from the author’s favorite locations of each region:
o The wildflowers of Central Texas and Hill Country area,
o Coastal Texas, from Port Arthur to Brownsville,
o Caddo Lake in the Piney Woods,
o The North Texas Plains and Panhandle, with its windswept fields and high plains storms, and
o The rugged desert and mountainous areas in West Texas Trans-Pecos area and the incomparable Big Bend area.
Throughout all of the above areas, I include many of the amazing State Parks they contain, in addition to the National Parks and other protected lands. Birds, alligators and other wildlife are also featured.
The beauty here often speaks for itself, so this Volume IV is a more text-light photobook, as compared to Volumes I-III..