The object of Art is to give life a shape

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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.

There is a force more powerful than steam and electricity: the will

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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

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth

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Graffiti at the Buffalo Bayou flood gates in George Bush Park - Houston, Texas.

Title quote from Pablo Picasso.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see

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Graffiti on the Buffalo Bayou flood gates at George Bush Park in Houston, Texas.

Title quote by Edgar Degas

Old Train Cars

 Once again, just down the road from my place of work in Cedar Park, Texas was a train station back behind a shopping center. It took me almost a year of driving by that place to notice it. But once I did I had to go take some pictures. I probably spent an hour and a half there and left with over thirty bracketed sets. These are two of my favorites. In these photos I really started to make use of the selection tool in Photomatix. After processing the photos I replaced the processed sky with the best looking sky from one of the source images. The processing tends to make the sky grainy and with no clouds in the sky to bring detail out of, there really is no reason not to take this action. In the lack of clouds situation, it makes for much nicer looking skies. These cars are a little worse for wear I know. They are not a a good example of the cars at their yard. These are the two worst ones I saw, which makes them much cooler then the rest in my opinion. Their main train was in prefect shape. The second car was up on blocks over to the side, parts maybe? I got excited when I found the old red car of the first pic, the plywood boards and all that peeling paint...

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http://www.austinsteamtrain.org/

The trains belong to the Austin Steam Train Association, they offer year round train rides/tours through central Texas.

Horse and Graffiti at sunset

 This storage building is next to a major thoroughfare in north Austin, just down the road from our old apartment. It would catch my eye every time I drove pass and now and then there be a few horses grazing near by. Finally I got an opportunity to shoot it with the horse near by in decent lighting.


















And this just looked like a nice scene here with the last light of the day hitting this tree. And these bushes are all over the place around Austin and they just look neat.


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Abandoned Railway Warehouse - Gnaws iron, bites steel, Grinds hard stones to meal

 Here's the side facing 5th street in downtown Austin, the opposite side of the building. This may be my favorite from the set, such color and the sun rays... And below we have a shot of the interior, at least a part of it. This shot didn't turn out as good as I would have liked, soo much haloing, I did my best to manage it.




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Abandoned Railway Warehouse - This thing all things devours...

 Still more of the warehouse, here's a couple of loading doors covered in some type of vine. Had to shoot these when I saw them, really gives an impression of time.

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