#868. Welcome to The Mullet

Taken yesterday at The Mullet near Almeda Mall in Houston, Texas.

Title: "Welcome to The Mullet"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Adobe Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex > texture from Flypapertextures.com

#867. Pink Lockers

Taken today at The Mullet near Almeda Mall in Houston, Texas.

Title: "Pink Lockers"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Adobe Photoshop CS4

#866. The Mullet

Taken yesterday at The Mullet near Almeda Mall in Houston, Texas. At The Mullet graffiti artists are invited to showcase their work both outside and inside.

Title: "The Mullet"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105 L zoom

Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Adobe Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro > Nik Color Efex Pro

#865. Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas everyone! May God bless you and yours!

Title: "Merry Christmas Everyone!"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 50mm f1.4
Post-processing: Adobe Camera Raw > Adobe Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex Pro

#864. Port I Lighthouse

Taken at the Port Isabel Lighthouse, Port Isabel, Texas.


Title: "Port I Lighthouse"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#863. SPI Beachscape

Taken this past weekend at South Padre Island, Texas.

Title: "SPI Beachscape"

Camera /Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > textures from flypapertextures.com

#862. Night Lights

The Port Isabel lighthouse. Taken this past Saturday night in Port Isabel, Texas.

Title: "Night Lights"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > textures from flypapertextures.com

#861. Scene from Evita

A scene from Saturday Night's performance of Evita at Lone Star College.

Title: "Scene from Evita"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 100-400mm L zoom
Shot data: 1/60s f/4.5 at 115.0mm iso3200

#860. Neiderwald Water Tower

Taken yesterday near Neiderwald, Texas (between Bastrop and Uhland).

Title: "Neiderwald Water Tower"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom

Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro > textures from Flypapertextures.com

#859. The Bugle Boy

Taken in La Grange, Texas. The Bugle Boy is a great venue for listening to music without distractions. If you ever see that your favorite musician will be appearing here make sure you catch the performance.  It's a relatively small, very comfortable venue with great acoustics.

Title: "The Bugle Boy"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver EFex Pro

#858. Rohan Meadery

Taken at the Rohan Meadery in La Grange, Texas.

Title: "Rohan Meadery"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / 15mm fisheye
Shot data: 1/500s f/2.8 at 15.0mm iso5000

#857. Spidey

Taken a couple of weekends ago near Round Top, Texas. If you're one of the majority of folks who find spiders to be a little unnerving then "Happy Halloween!"

Title: "Spidey"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 100-400mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#856. Tree House

Taken a couple of weekends ago between Round Top and Fayetteville, Texas.

Title: "Tree House"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex Pro > Texture from flypapertextures.blogspot.com

#855. Hot Tin Roof

Taken a couple of weekends ago in the Strand area of Galveston, Texas.

Title: "Hot Tin Roof"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Adobe Camera Raw > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#854. The Pleasure Pier

Taken this past weekend in Galveston, Texas from a jetty parallel to The Pleasure Pier. This is a composite of five HDR images stitched together using Photoshop's amazing photomerge process. I processed each set of brackets (three shots, one at -2, one at 0, and one at +2) into HDR images using Photomatix Pro first and then joined them together in Photoshop. To be really appreciated it needs to be viewed as a big print but hopefully you can get a feel for it as presented here.

Title: "The Pleasure Pier"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex Pro

#853. Allen's Landing #3

Another shot from Allen's Landing on Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston. This one a comoposite of several shots stitched together using Photoshops amazing photomerge function.

Title: "Allen's Landing #3"

Camera / Lens:  Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex Pro > textures from flypapertextures.blogspot.com

#852. Allen's Landing #2

Another shot taken from Allen's Landing on Buffalo Bayou in Downtown Houston a couple of weekends ago.

Title: "Allen's Landing #2"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro, Textures from flypapertextures.blogspot.com

#851. Shaw's Tattoo

Taken three weekends ago in Port Aransas, Texas.

Title: "Shaw's Tattoo"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Cnaon 24-105mm L zoom

#850. Near Allen's Landing

Taken this past Saturday morning on a Houston Photographic Society field trip.  Allen's Landing is on Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston.

Title: "Allen's Landing #3"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Adobe Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#849. Bakery Cafe

Taken last weekend in Port Aransas, Texas.

Title: "Bakery Cafe"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex Pro

#848. Seabrook Surf

Taken Thursday evening in Seabrook, Texas looking out at Galveston Bay.

Title: "Seabrook Surf"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom

Post-processing: Photomatix pro > Photoshop CS4 > Topaz Adjust > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#847. Natural Chimneys, VA

Taken at Natural Chimneys Regional Park and Campground in Virgina.

Title: "Natural Chimneys, VA"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro plugin > Topaz Adjust plugin

#846. Capitol of Texas

The Texas Capitol Building in Austin, Texas.

Title: "Capitol of Texas"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom

Post-processing: Photomatix Pro >
Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro > texture from flypapertexture.blogspot.com

#845. Skeletonized Clock

Taken at the Red Mill Museum in Clinton, New Jersey.

Title: "Skeletonized Clock"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 >Nik Silver Efex Pro plugin > Topaz Adjust plugin

#844. Marigold Flower Pots $3

Taken a few weeks back on our trip to High Bridge, New Jersey.  We never actually saw anyone manning this roadside stand but the things for sale changed every day.  When I stopped to take my photograph someone came down from a house barely visible on the hill behind to see what was going on.

Title: "Marigold Flower Post $3"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-Processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Viveza plugin

#843. Driftwood

Taken this past weekend in Driftwood, Texas.

Title: "Driftwood"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex Pro

#842. Pool Table - Stubb's BBQ

Taken this past week at Stubb's BBQ in Austin, Texas. Terrific BBQ and great atmosphere!

Title: "Pool Table - Stubb's BBQ"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#841. An End of a Line

End of this particular train line in High Bridge, NJ.

I don't know anything about how the train systems around NYC work but I imagine there are other sets of tracks and other ends of lines.

Title: "An End of a Line"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Topaz Adjust > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#840. Ferry Landing

Taken a couple of weeks ago at the Port Authority Ferry Landing in the financial district of NYC. This was our arrival and departure point for the water taxi we took from Liberty Park (over on the Jersey side of things).

Title: "Ferry Landing"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex Pro

#839. Roanoke Star

Taken last week in Roanoke, Virgina.

Here's the lowdown from Wikipedia: "The Roanoke Star, also known as the Mill Mountain Star, is the world's largest freestanding illuminated man-made star, constructed in 1949 at the top of Mill Mountain in Roanoke, Virginia. It was the largest star ever assembled until the El Paso Star was completed in El Paso, Texas.[2] However, the Mill Mountain Star still holds the claim to world's largest illuminated man-made free-standing star, as the El Paso Star lies flat on the ground. After construction of the star, Roanoke was nicknamed "Star City of the South". It's visible for 60 miles from the air and it sits 1,045 feet above the city of Roanoke."

Title: "Roanoke Star"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Adobe Photoshop CS4 > Topaz Adjust

#838. Irish Hunger Memorial

Taken last week in New York City.

Here's a blurb from Wikipedia: The Irish Hunger Memorial, designed collaboratively by artist Brian Tolle, landscape architect Gail Wittwer-Laird, and 1100 Architect, is located on a one-half acre site[1] at the corner of Vesey Street and North End Avenue in the Battery Park City neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, and is dedicated to raising awareness of the Great Irish Famine - referred to by the Irish as 'The Great Hunger' or An Gorta Mor in Irish Gaelic - that killed up to a million people in Ireland between the years 1845 and 1852. The memorial was dedicated on July 16, 2002. 

Title: "Irish Hunger Memorial" Camera / Lens: Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro > Nik Color Efex Pro

#837. Waiting for Nightfall

Taken this past weekend at the Corral Theater in Wimberley, Texas. We were waiting for night to fall and MIB3 to start.

Title: "Waiting for Nightfall" Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Shot data: 0.00s f/3.5 at 15.0mm iso1600
Post-processing: Photomatix pro > Photoshop CS4 > Topaz Adjust > textures from flypapertextures.blogspot.com

#836. Small Burton Home

Taken in Burton, Texas two weekends ago. I love to make up my own stories about these old houses when I find them. I think this one was built for a young nephew who needed a place to live when his immediate family out grew their own home. People used to do for each other. Some stil do I suppose.

I found this poem in the cloud after Googling "Small Houses" (no author noted):

Dear House,
You are really very small,
just enough for love,
that's all!

Title: "Small Burton Home" Cmaera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex Pro 2

#835. Time to Go

Taken a couple of weeks ago. My daughter Emma and some friends about to leave for the Orchestra Banquet.

Title: "Time to Go" Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Shot data: 1/125s f/6.3 at 45.0mm iso100
Post-processing: Adobe Camera Raw > Photoshop CS4 > Portrait Professional

#834. Mock Up

Taken this evening at the location of the Shuttle Mock Up docked today at the NASA docks (corner of Space Center and Nasa Parkway) in Clear Lake City, Texas.

Title: "Mock Up"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro 2

#833. Ring Me

Taken yesterday evening at Kemah Boardwalk.

Title: "Ring Me"

Shot data: 1/40s f/5.6 at 320.0mm iso640
Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 100-400mm L zoom
Post-processing: Adobe Camera Raw > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex

#832. Methodist

The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. Taken Saturday night from the Rice University campus.

Title: "Methodist"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex > Nik Silver Efex > Topaz Adjust

#831. H-town Streats

Taken one weekend in April near the Houston Center for Photography.

Title: "H-Town Streats"

Shot data: 1/400s f/4.0 at 24.0mm iso200
Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Adobe Camera Raw > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#830. Super Moon

A composite of the "Super Moon" taken last night from Seabrook, Texas overlooking Galveston Bay.
Title: "Super Moon"

Shot data: 1/40s f/5.6 at 400.0mm iso1250
Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 100-400L zoom
Post-processing: Adobe Camera Raw > Photoshop CS4 > Topaz Adjust Plugin

#829. Outreach

Taken at Goose Island State Park in Rockport, Texas.
Title: "Outreach"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#828. Copse

Taken in Fulton, Texas on Easter weekend. Everything was green then but I like fall colors better. Title: "Copse"

Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > NIK Color Efex Pro

#827. St. Martin

Taken at Fulton Habor in Fulton, Texas Title: "St. Martin"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex

#826. Rockport Skimmers

A flock of Black Skimmers taken in Rockport, Texas a few weekends ago.

Title: "Rockport Skimmers"

Shot data: 1/2000s f/5.6 at 275.0mm iso200
Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 100-400mm L zoom
Post-processing: Adobe Camera Raw > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex Pro

#825. Big Shoes To Fill

Taken at the Garcia Circus in Bay City, Texas a few weekends ago.

Title: "Big Shoes to Fill"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 100-400mm L zoom
Shot data: 1/160s f/5.6 at 400.0mm iso1600
Post-processing: Adobe Camera Raw > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Color Efex plugin

#824. Pipe Dreams: Mr. Universe

From the series Pipe Dreams. Taken at the Texas Pipe Menagerie Park in Houston, Texas.

Title: "Pipe Dreams: Mr. Universe"

Camera / Lens: Canon 4D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Adobe Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#823. Pipe Dreams: Overload

Another composite from the shots I took a couple of weekends ago at the Texas Pipe Sculpture Garden. In this one an irresistible force meets an immovable object.

Title: "Pipe Dreams: Overload"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Silver Efex Pro

#822. Tower View

Taken last weekend at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. This shot is taken from the 40' observation tower.

Title: "Tower View"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro to combine three exposures into one HDR image > Photoshop CS4 > Topaz Adjust plugin

#821. LIttle Big Top

Taken Easter Sunday in Bay City, Texas.

Title: "Little Big Top"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye

#820. Pipe Dreams - Hippo Hitchers

Still playing around with making composites of photos taken two weekends ago at the Texas Pipe Eclectic Menagerie Park in Houston, Texas.

Title: "Pipe Dreams - Hippo Hitchers"

Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 15mm fisheye
Post-processing: Photomatix Pro to combine three exposures into one HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Viveza plugin

#819. Pipe Dreams - Kong Gone Wild (Rollover)

Another composite from two of the photos taken at the Texas Pipe Eclectic Menagerie last weekend. Hold you mouse over the image for a closer view of the actions.

Title: "Pipe Dreams - Kong Gone Wild"


Camera / Lens: Canon 5D Mark II / Canon 24-105mm L zoom
Post-Processing: Photomatix Pro > Photoshop CS4 > Nik Viveza plugin