PHOTOGRAPHY - PG 11

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In this photo, you can see the path over a walking bridge. This bridge allows you to walk over a wide and busy major artery road in downtown Houston. Someone named Earl wrote his name on a fence post. I did some silhouetting against the white sky. The cyclone fencing has since been removed from this walking bridge. It was extremely overcast on this day and there was a darker mood.

An airplane departs Houston likely headed for Doha, Qatar. This is aircraft a7-bbg which is a Boeing 777-200. They've been around since 1995 and can seat up to 400 people. I'm still amazed they stay in the air. Flights to and from Qatar are more rare to see than many others. That's a long flight across the Atlantic Ocean, West Europe, and North Africa. There were light thin clouds to work with on this day. The photo had a nice feel, and I like the composition I achieved here.

This is a closeup of a 1961 AMC Rambler with a nice paint job. The AMC Rambler was only around for a few years and was part of the big metal cars with large engines during its era. This one is jazzing up the street parallel parked uptown. I composed it in a way to remove some distractions and add to the glamour of its rarity. I used the soft lighting that day to bring out the paint. I also like how the car slants on the outward sloped streets. That's a bit of a cultural thing living in a city known for flooding. Drainage solutions in uptown are extreme but work very well. You don't see many of these in the wild anymore, because this car is over 60 years old.

This is the Galvestonian, a 12-story condo on E. Beach in Galveston Texas. It was built in 1984 and contains 174 resort style units. Some of the penthouse suites have 5 bedrooms overlooking the ocean. I waited for a nice clear day so I could juxtapose the blue sky and yellow-green grass. That and some of the other choices like composition created a great mood.

This tall skyscraper is the Williams Tower on Post Oak Blvd. It was built in 1983 and stands 901 feet tall. It's 64 stories high. It's not the tallest building in Houston though, because the JPMorgan Chase Tower is 1,002 feet tall. It is however the tallest building in uptown. By the way, you can see the JP Morgan Chase building in some of my Houston skyline photos and compare its height to others around it. I included low buildings on all sides to add to the juxtaposition, and chose to use late evening lighting here to capture more of the mood I wanted. I had to wait around for a while because I got there early. That and other choices like overall composition and style led a great feeling.

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