Tag Archives: Landscapes

Chicago

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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.

Fall Colors

On Saturday, we went into the city. This was a fountain in the courtyard of the Chicago Art Institute.

Art Institute Fountain

We went to Grant Park. This is a shot of Buckingham Fountain.

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.”

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.

Chicago Skyline

Football Game

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I took Joe and Mathias to see a football game in the new stadium last Saturday night.  I was able to get a couple good pictures from inside the stadium.  This one is from the very top of the upper deck seats.

Baylor Football

It is apparent it was an overcast night.  In fact, it rained quite hard when we were getting to the stadium.  As the night went on, though, the clouds opened, and I got this shot of the stadium with a quite prominent moon.

Moon over McLane

McLane Stadium

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Baylor has built a new football stadium on campus.  Everyone has been eager to take photographs of it.  I have a couple in my own style. Here is my picture of the stadium.

McLane Stadium

It is am impressive facility.  I wanted to go a little beyond the normal photograph, though, and I took pictures of the old Floyd Casey Stadium and superimposed on into the reflection in the water.  I call this “Now and Then.”

Now and Then

Canada Cruise

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We took another cruise last week.  This one left from Montreal and went to Quebec City, Charlottetown, P.E.I., Halifax, N.S., Bar Harbor, ME, and Boston MA. This is a lighthouse in the harbor outside of Bar Harbor.

Bar Harbor Lighthouse

There were several really interesting places, but while we were in Halifax we went to “Peggy’s Cove.”  I had never heard of it, but it turns out to be a place where many photographers have made some really good images.  Peggy’s Cove is a small fishing village with probably not more than 20 houses.  We were told the lighthouse there is the most photographed lighthouse in the world. When we got there, a piper was standing in full Scottish regalia.  The picture I took had dozens of other people in it, but I managed to remove them in photoshop.

The lone piper stands in front of the Peggy's Cove Lighthouse.

Sunflowers

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Friday, Debbie drove her mother up to Iowa.  When she got there, she texted me that there was a field of sunflowers on I35 in Itasca that were amazing.  So, Saturday morning I drove up there.  There were actually several fields on both sides of the highway.

Itasca Sunflowers

Galveston

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I spent last weekend in Galveston and just about all I had to do was take pictures.  I began at the harbor in my usual spot where the shrimp and fishing boats dock.  I got some reasonable pictures of birds, but I got a pretty good environmental portrait of this fisherman mending his net.

After The Catch

That evening was Art Walk.   After that, I waited until the sun was down and went to the beach.  I wanted to get a night shot of the fishing pier.  That mean a really long shutter speed which meant that as the waves came in, there was a sequential reflection of the pier’s light on the water.

61st St. Fishing Pier

Images of Waco – The 25th St. Theater

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I am in the process of capturing various Waco “Landmarks.”  One of those is the 25th St. Theater.  When they were in High School and after, the kids used to go there frequently. Later, of course, it has called into disrepair, although there are efforts to revive it.

25th St. Theater

And a Black and White image as well.

25th St Theater 2 B&W

Images of Waco – East Waco

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When leaving Sam’s the other day, I noticed the junk yard on the other side of the street, and thought the rusting old truck between two railroad cars made a pretty good image of contrasting colors.

Junk Yard

I then drove up Elm Avenue again and saw an old, abandoned fast station that I thought would also make a good image.

1128 Elm

Decades ago, there was an all Black college in that part of town called Paul Quinn College. There are still buildings that remain, and many of them have been renovated for use as schools.  But this one had not.

William Johnson Hall

Wildflowers

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April is the month for wildflowers in Texas.  Bluebonnets and Indian Paintbrush are blooming at the same time.  On the way home a couple nights ago, we drove on Santa Fe and Whitehall Park was amazing.

Whitehall Park

Whitehall Park

Whitehall Park