Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Photography. Show all posts
Monday, May 13, 2013
The object of Art is to give life a shape
Bryan wraps up the street art that him and Wiley worked on that day at an old gas station across from Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Downtown Houston, Texas.
This is in preparation for a street art exhibit at the museum on May the 25th, 2013.
This photo may look like it was taken with a extreme wide angle lens but it was in fact taken with my usual 24-105mm set at 24.
It is another stitch made up of 12 or so portraits. I panned across the top for about 6 shots and then across the bottom for the same.
I had intended to straighten out the distortion but when I did, the photo took on a bow-tie shape so I left it in. I don't generally like the fish-eye look but for this scene I think it looks pretty good.
I finally learned a good sharpening technique using a duplicate layer with a high-pass filter in use which I learned with the help of a fellow photographer's blog: http://hdrphotographer.blogspot.com/
Title quote from "The Rehearsal" by Jean Anouilh.
Friday, May 10, 2013
Night on the town
Here we have a panoramic photo of Down town Houston. It's roughly 180 degrees. Made up of 12 portrait HDR shots. To see it in all its glory click here: http://gigapan.com/gigapans/128389.
I got lucky that the Astros were playing that night, adds something to the scene I think. I had mad this trip to get some sunset shots with the Houston skyline but I didn't leave the house early enough.
Monday, February 18, 2013
My God, it's full of stars!
At this abandoned rock crushing facility on the outskirts of Searcy, Arkansas.
I love the monolithic quality of this... thing.
It just occurs to me that this would be a great place for star photography, to bad it's eight hours away.
Huh, according to the map, this is in Gray, Ar.
Labels:
5D Mark III,
arkansas,
HDR,
Photography,
searcy
Location:
Gray, AR, USA
Thursday, February 14, 2013
...
On our way back to Houston, I had to stop again at this old farm house, if only long enough to take a few pictures.
I decided to include the power plant in the background and I'm so glad I did. The new perspective hives it a completely different aspect.
Click here to see the same farm house taken about six months ago by my old CyberShot:
Old Abandoned Farmhouse - When children’s voices called, Where grasses now stand still
Labels:
5D Mark III,
Abandoned,
Farmhouse,
HDR,
Photography,
Texas
Location:
Fayette, TX, USA
Thursday, February 7, 2013
This old house
Out cruising around in Judsonia/Providence/Steprock Ar one day during this last winter break.
According to the map, I was in Guthrie, Ar.
Labels:
5D Mark III,
arkansas,
HDR,
log cabin,
Photography
Location:
Guthrie, AR, USA
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
The evening darkens over, After a day so bright, The windcapt waves discover, That wild will be the night
My third favorite from the other night at White Lake in Cullinan Park.
Title from "The Evening Darkens Over" by Robert Bridges. Click on the poem title to see the poem in it's entirety. A great poem, it's worth a read.
The other two from that night:
Only a mighty sadness fills, The silence of the dark
Fire in the sky
Labels:
5D Mark III,
clouds,
cullinan park,
HDR,
Houston,
Photography,
Sugar Land,
Sunset,
Texas,
water
Location:
Cullinan Park, Sugar Land, TX 77498, USA
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Only a mighty sadness fills, The silence of the dark
The weather was amazing and the clouds look great yesterday for the first time in a month here in the Houston area. So the wife an I went down to Cullinan Park just north of Sugar Land, TX to check out the sunset. This one is actually facing away from the sunset but the pinks in the clouds just looked amazing.
Labels:
cullinan park,
HDR,
Houston,
Photography,
Sugar Land,
Sunset,
Texas
Location:
Cullinan Park, Sugar Land, TX 77498, USA
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Let us remember...
Labels:
5D Mark III,
arkansas,
cemetery,
HDR,
Photography,
searcy
Location:
Searcy, AR, USA
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Rust to rust
Out on the hunt for interesting subject matter in rural White County Arkansas and came across these two babies.
Labels:
5D Mark III,
Abandoned,
arkansas,
car,
HDR,
judsonia,
Photography,
Rusty
Location:
Judsonia, AR, USA
Friday, January 11, 2013
Plymouth
A collection of really old cars rusting away in the snow in Searcy, Ar.
Labels:
5D Mark III,
Abandoned,
arkansas,
car,
HDR,
Photography,
Rusty,
searcy
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Old things
Took a trip back to Austin to check out some places and see about locating property owners and I revisited this old truck to get some new shots with the 5D.
Labels:
5D Mark III,
Abandoned,
HDR,
Old,
Photography,
rust,
Rusty,
Texas,
Truck
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
A sea of snow
My bro-in-law's boat at sunset in Searcy, Ar.
This is an HDR composite of 7 long exposures ranging from 2 to 30 seconds.
Labels:
5D Mark III,
arkansas,
boat,
HDR,
long exposure,
Photography,
searcy,
snow
Location:
Searcy, AR, USA
Monday, December 17, 2012
Southern Pacific
Labels:
Austin,
Cedar Park,
HDR,
Photography,
Texas,
Train,
train tracks,
Trains
Location:
Cedar Park, TX, USA
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Silo Complex
Still at No Label Brewery in Katy, Texas. Love this place!
Location:
Katy, TX, USA
Saturday, December 15, 2012
POSTED NO TRESPASSING
Labels:
HDR,
Katy,
No Label,
Photography,
Texas
Location:
Katy, TX, USA
Thursday, December 13, 2012
No Label - Silo Door
Labels:
HDR,
Katy,
No Label,
Photography,
Texas
Location:
Katy, TX, USA
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will
Still at the Chong Hua Sheng Mu Holy Palace. Don't know of the Palace? Check out my previous post.
Title quote from Fernán Caballero
Labels:
graffiti,
HDR,
Houston,
Photography,
Texas
Location:
3695 Overture Dr, Houston, TX 77082, USA
Monday, December 10, 2012
Knowing others is Wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment
At the Chong Hua Sheng Mu Holy Palace, an abandoned since 2001.
Construction on the Chong Hua Sheng Mu Holy Palace was to be the beginning of a grand complex for spiritual rejuvenation, an oasis of calm within the sprawling suburbs of western Houston. But with the US government preventing the group leader's 2001 return from a trip abroad, all work stopped, without much hope of seeing the Tien Tao temple complex completed.
It has the architectural air of Dr. No meets Wernham-Hogg or Dunder-Miflin. The dramatic gold dome looks perfect for housing a doomsday weapon and twin minarets flank either side, but the construction and materials has all the grace and inspiration of a mundane industrial office tower. The entire property is gated and fenced off, but exploration of the north wall may reveal an accessible entrance. Once on the grounds, visitors to the building will find it buttoned up tight with robust security gates around all the main entrances and side doors. With the project stopped before the interior was started, the inside (apparently) has little to offer. Windows are either blacked out or too high to gaze in on, so the simple bizarreness of the building will have to do. The palace, for an abandoned building, remains surprisingly tidy and seemingly maintained. Grass mowed, parking lot relatively free of garbage and graffiti painted over.
Title quote from: Lao Tzu
Info from: Nothing to see here: Chong Hua Sheng Mu Holy Palace
Labels:
HDR,
Houston,
Photography,
Temple,
Texas
Location:
3695 Overture Dr, Houston, TX 77082, USA
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Sabine-to-Bagby Promenade
At Sabine st on the Sabine-to-Bagby Promenade, heading into Eleanor Tinsley Park in Houton, Texas. This is a two shot stitched but someone distracted me in between shots. I kinda like the outcome so I didn't clean up the edges.
Labels:
Downtown,
Downtown Houston,
HDR,
Houston,
Photography,
Texas,
tree,
trees
Location:
106 Sabine St, Houston, TX 77007, USA
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