Another Waco landmark is the Dr. Pepper museum.
While photographing the museum, I noticed about a block away, across the street from First Baptist Church were these two structures. I believe they are grain silos, but I am not sure. They appear to be long-ago abandoned, But, they are still interesting.
On Friday, I took these shots on the corner of Fourth and Franklin.
I found this second image interesting, and worked up some variations on it that I will bring back in another post.
After the Texas Ranger Hall, I went down to the Freedom Fountain.
One of the most popular spots in Waco is the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum. 
The third stop on our cruise was Cozumel. We have been there several times before, making it easier to just head out on our own. We took a cab into town and shopped, stopped at Palmeres and had a margarita, then stopped at Margaritaville for lunch before going back tot he ship. The port area is much more built up than the last time we were there.
Another shot of a boat, this one not as stylized as the one from Belize. This was taken in downtown San Miguel.
The first stop on our cruise was the island of Roatan. We took a tour to the Carambola Botanical Gardens. It was an absolutely terrible day. It was raining and humid. I wanted to get some good flower pictures, but it was almost impossible. I did get a really good shot of an orchid.
Following that, our bus toured the west side of the island, stopping in a small village. From there, we went to a resort area. I got this picture at the resort. It took some manipulation to better balance the details and the contrast, but it was worth it.
We went on a cruise a couple weeks ago. Prior to departing, you sit on the boat and wait. While waiting, I did get a couple of interesting shots. Then, when we did sail away, I was able to get a couple more really good ones.
This is another HDR shot. I shot it from the deck of the ship and did my best to get a straight shot along 25th St. The deck I was on ended a little short of where I really wanted to be, but this worked pretty well. You can see from the harbor all the way to the Pleasure Pier.
As we were sailing away, I was able to get this HDR image of The Elissa.
Galveston has a huge number of large historic houses. I have wanted to get HDR images of many of them to add to my Galveston images. A few months ago, I got some of the Bishop’s Palace and a house across from it on Broadway, but didn’t have time to get more of other places. I started today with the ones that the Galveston Historic Foundation lists on their web site.
This was the Samuel May Williams house.
This was the Michael B. Menard House. Note the bird on the porch. Those looked like herons. They were walking around the front lawn. I don’t know if they were in some way domesticated, but they didn’t seem very concerned with me taking pictures.
This was Ashton Villa.
This was Moody Mansion.
I have been doing quite a bit of HDR imagery using Galveston locations. We were down there the weekend of the 8th. I didn’t really feel in the mood on Saturday morning but then remembered we joined the Galveston Historical Society. That meant we could get into The Elissa for free. So, I decided to go down to the harbor and shoot a little and go on The Elissa and shoot.
In looking at one of the magazines, I saw a picture take roughly in the same place as this. Only, it was a night photograph, and all the winds glowed brightly. It was an effective picture, and I would like to try a similar thing at some point, but this was just take from behind Willie G’s looking back at it.
While we were in the harbor, this fishing boat came in. It made an interesting subject for an HDR image. Then I noticed that a woman on the boat was quite busy dealing with the catch and got a nice picture of her.
We then went over to The Elissa and walked around the ship.
I had a free afternoon, and I had been told that there were lots of really interesting places in Hico. Hico is a small town on Hwy 6. It is apparently the home of Billy the Kid because there is a statue of him in the middle of town, and apparently a museum as well. I drove around the town and saw lots of interesting locations.
There were alleys behind buildings that had back doors like this. It was really cool.
I can imagine these as great places for a bridal shoot.
This shell of an old building had tons of character.