Audrey is in the Denton Guyer HS Dance Squad – The Silverados. We went and watched them at halftime of a football game on Friday. These are some of the pictures I got.
Denton Guyer H.S. Silverados
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Monthly Archives: October 2014
Chicago
When I was in High School, we hosted a foreign exchange student from Germany for a year. Over the years, he kept in touch with us. He has recently retired and wanted to come back and visit again. So last weekend, I went to Chicago were we all visited. Chicago was beautiful (as odd as that may seem). The trees were spectacular.
On Saturday, we went into the city. This was a fountain in the courtyard of the Chicago Art Institute.
We went to Grant Park. This is a shot of Buckingham Fountain.
One of the newest attractions is “The Bean” in Millennium Park. This is a highly polished chrome sculpture shaped like a bean. Everything reflects off its surface. Here is a picture of “The Bean.”
We went on a fantastic boat tour on the Chicago River where we could see all the various Chicago Architecture. Towards the end of the tour, we went out to the mouth of the river and turned around. Looking back, you can see the who skyline, and it was really quite impressive.
Cameron Park Zoo
I had a little spare time on Friday. So, I ran over to the zoo. I knew I did not have enough time to do the entire zoo, so I went to the Asia and Africa areas. The female orangutan gave birth not too long ago, and she and her baby were out.
In the Africa exhibit, the flamingoes were all next to the water, and that made a nice reflection shot.
Finally, right next tot he Flamingoes, there was a flock of Black Vultures in a tree.
Spider
For October, the Heart of Texas Professional Photographer’s Guild’s image competition subject was a black and white photograph of something in nature. One morning while getting the newspaper, I saw there was a spider web on the front porch. I thought maybe I could get a good macro image of it and convert that to black and white. I tried a couple times during the day, but was never really happy with it. So, I decided to try at night. When I went out to try, the spider was there. It was a pretty large orb-weaving spider and I started taking pictures of it. I took several with my 90mm macro lens, but they weren’t what I was hoping for. So, I used my 180mm macro lens and got some that were much better. This was one of those.
I tried converting it to black and white, but I was never really happy with it. I entered another image instead and it didn’t do as well as I had hoped. So, I wondered if I would have been better off with this one.