I took this photo South from 30 Rock when I was in New York with my family last summer.
Tag Archives: Houston My wife and I thought it ironic that we should see a Virgin balloon having flown Virgin Atlantic but we were both thankful that Virgin Atlantic fly Boeing 747s and not balloons such as this!  This is a shot of the rear of the hotel. I like the strong lines in the architecture here. Since I like saturated colors, I’ve upped the saturation in this image. People familiar with the building will recognize the colors as being more muted in real life.  The Destroyer Escort 238 USS Stewart was commissioned into active service on May 31, 1943 having been constructed at the Brown Shipbuilding Yards in Houston. 
[...] back, the city acquired several downtown blocks near the George R. Brown (yes, same Brown as in Brown Shipbuilding and KBR) Convention Center. On it they built the Toyota Center – home to the Houston Rockets [...]  Like the Elissa, the USS Texas is no longer seaworthy. She lies in a berth off the Houston ship channel just north of the San Jacinto battleground where Texas won it’s independence from Mexico. There are plans to make the berth a dry dock but that’s not due to be completed till 2017, so she sits on the mud quietly rusting away.
[...] Park in Galveston chose a different approach to presenting their ships than the folks minding the Elissa or USS Texas. Rather than have to deal with slowly rotting hulls and their vessels taking on water, [...]  Taken around 3:00pm on a late January afternoon, the trees are all devoid of leaves. The sun was still high enough in the sky to light the face of the barn and the gate without interruption from the shadows of the trees.  This Buffalo Soldier was riding with his colleagues in the leading units of the Krewe of Pontchartrain parade in 2009.  So I follow a bunch of Photographers over on Google+, one of them being Brian Matiash. Brian had a post recently where he stated he found it very challenging to stop and smell the roses. Since Brian’s post was illustrated with a view towards Otter Cliff, Acadia, Maine, I decided to illustrate this post with… 
You have to allow yourself to shake things up! And sometimes, just so you remember what it’s like to simply relax and enjoy the sights for their own merits, try to leave the camera at home! (IT IS very hard to do I know!) |
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by Richard Davis
very nice picture! is amazing!
Magi, thanks for your vote of approval!