Daily Photo – Palacios Harbor
I was struck by the lemon-yellow building in this scene. It sits at the entrance to the leisure boat marina in Palacios, Texas. In the background is part of the fishing fleet – shrimp, crabs and oysters being the main business in this town.
The yellow building typifies one of the things I love about the houses that line the Texas Gulf coast – bright, vibrant, saturated colors.
The blue sails and awnings and the red covers on the boats and sails the primary colors dominate this scene while the fluttering Old Glory cements this location firmly in the U.S.A.
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Production Data
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Lens: Canon 75-300mm f/4.0-5.6 III USM (B&H)
Processing: Lightroom 3.6
Processing: Photomatix 4.02
Processing: Photoshop CS5
Processing: Topaz Adjust 5
Processing: Nik Software Color Efex Pro 4 (Nik Software)
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[…] However, I did like to scene of this farm with the contrast of the red barns, sand house and green alfalfa fields, so I tried a few shots and this one was my favorite. In the metadata I placed it near Wadsworth, Texas. Maybe that name triggered a latent memory of my favorite local ale back in England, Wadworth’s 6X. But in trying to find the location on Google Earth while writing this post, I see it is actually much closer to Palacios. […]