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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Sabine-to-Bagby Promenade

Sabine-to-Bagby Promenade - Houston, Texas - HDR - Stitched


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.