Oyster Creek Park at night, in Sugar Land, Texas.
This one's not HDR, just a single long exposure taken the new 5D MrkIII tweaked in Lightroom.
Monday, December 24, 2012
Oyster Creek Park at night
Oyster Creek Park at night, in Sugar Land, Texas.
This one's not HDR, just a single long exposure taken the new 5D MrkIII tweaked in Lightroom.
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
The submissions
A collage of the photos that had I submitted to the contest;
1: Abandoned Farm House
2: Rusty Old Ford
3: Red Peeling Train Car
4: Bronze Statue of Girl
5: Giant President Bust and Dumpster
Monday, December 17, 2012
Sunday, December 16, 2012
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
I'm a "Get the Gig" finalist!
Just found out that I'm a "Get the Gig" finalist!
I will receive a photojournalist equipment package consisting of the following:
(1) Canon® EOS 5D Mark III EF 24-105mm IS Kit,
(1) Canon® 600 RT Speedlite,
(1) Canon® 70-300 Telephoto lens,
(1) Canon® Carry Bag,
(1) Canon® Pixma® Wireless Photo Printer,
(1) Canon® PowerShot® G12,
(1) Canon® Battery Grip, Canon® Cartridges,
(150) Canon® Photo Paper Sheets,
(1) Sony® Pocket Bit USM-P Series USB flash drive (8 GB), and
(1) 64GB SD Card X3.
Each Finalist will also receive a check in the amount of $4,500.00.
Total Approximate Retail Value of each Finalist Prize is $15,996.00.
My self and the 7 other finalists will receive an assignment, and the top 4 submissions of that assignment will win the grand prize of $20,000!
I will receive a photojournalist equipment package consisting of the following:
(1) Canon® EOS 5D Mark III EF 24-105mm IS Kit,
(1) Canon® 600 RT Speedlite,
(1) Canon® 70-300 Telephoto lens,
(1) Canon® Carry Bag,
(1) Canon® Pixma® Wireless Photo Printer,
(1) Canon® PowerShot® G12,
(1) Canon® Battery Grip, Canon® Cartridges,
(150) Canon® Photo Paper Sheets,
(1) Sony® Pocket Bit USM-P Series USB flash drive (8 GB), and
(1) 64GB SD Card X3.
Each Finalist will also receive a check in the amount of $4,500.00.
Total Approximate Retail Value of each Finalist Prize is $15,996.00.
My self and the 7 other finalists will receive an assignment, and the top 4 submissions of that assignment will win the grand prize of $20,000!
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
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
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Saturday, December 8, 2012
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.
Tuesday, December 4, 2012
A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again
Downtown Houston, Texas seen from the Buffalo Bayou pedestrian bridge that connects The Sabine-to-Bagby Promenade to Downtown.
This is another stitched panoramic.
Title Quote from Margaret Mead.
Monday, December 3, 2012
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature
"The Spirit of the Confederacy" at Sam Houston Park at downtown Houston, Texas.
The plaque on the base says: “To all heroes of the South who fought for the Principles of States Rights.”
This monument placed in 1908 is made from bronze and granite.
AMATEIS, LOUIS (1855-1913). Louis Amateis, sculptor, was born in Turin, Italy, on December 13, 1855, the son of Gen. Paolo and Carolina Amateis. He studied architecture at the Institute of Technology and sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, both in Turin, and received a gold medal from the Royal Academy for outstanding work. In 1880 he received a silver medal at the National Exposition in Turin. He also studied art in Paris and Milan before immigrating to the United States in 1883. Amateis settled first in New York City, where he did some architectural sculpture, primarily for the firm of McKim, Mead, and White. He married Dora Ballin in New York City on February 24, 1889; they had four sons. After his marriage Amateis moved to Washington, D.C., to found the School of Architecture and Fine Arts at Colombian University (later George Washington University), where he served as chairman of the Department of Fine Arts from 1892 to 1902. Among some of his best known works are the bronze doors (1909) intended for the west main entrance to the United States Capitol, a monument to the heroes of the Texas Revolution (1900) in Galveston, and busts of such prominent men as President Chester A. Arthur, Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
Title quote from Abraham Lincoln.
Sunday, December 2, 2012
The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving
An Cold planer that was left unattended in north west Austin, Texas.
Title quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Friday, November 30, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
The wind blows where it pleases. You cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going.
Another stitched-panoramic (comprising 5 separate, portrait frames, if I remember correctly) taken at the base of the tanks at the pumping station at George Bush Park in Houston, Texas.
Title quote from John 3:8
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind
Family marker at Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, Texas.
The Glenwood Cemetery is located at 2525 Washington Avenue in Houston, Texas. It was the first cemetery in Houston to be professionally designed and opened in 1871. The cemetery is situated between Washington Avenue on the North side and Memorial Drive on the South side, the latter overlooking Buffalo Bayou.
Buried in the cemetery is William P. Hobby, after whom Hobby Airport in Houston, Texas, is named. In 1938, the William P. Hobby Airport in Houston, known at the time as Houston Municipal Airport, was renamed “Howard Hughes Airport,” but the name was changed back after people objected to naming the airport after a living person. This is also the location of pioneering heart surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley’s family grave-site. Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, is also buried here.
This historic cemetery is the final resting place of a number of individuals who were citizens of the short-lived Republic of Texas. The grave sites of those individuals have been designated with metal markers and are frequently decorated with the flag of the Republic and State of Texas.
Keith Rosen, a Houston area history professor quoted in the San Antonio Express-News, said that the cemetery is the "River Oaks of the dead."
Title quote from William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts
This is my first posting of a photo not taken by myself, this was taken by my mother in her garden. It was processed by yours truly though.
Title quote from Sigmund Freud.
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