Tag:United States
Here’s another photo I took with the iPhone 11 Pro Max on my flight back from Calgary the other week. The landscape feature at the bottom of the image is Pine Mountain which lies just to the west of Casper, Wyoming. The first part of the flight had crisp, clear blue skies allowing for great visibility. I spent virtually the entire flight just gazing out the window watching the magnificent landscape pass below. The angle of the sun that afternoon […]
Last week I had to be in Calgary for not the happiest of reasons. Most of my Calgary trips are strictly business, up on Monday back on Thursday. Sometimes I’ll vary them though so last week was up on Wednesday, back on Friday. While the intervening Thursday had some light snow flurries, both the flight in and the flight out had crisp, clear, dry air. My preferred seat is the window seat. Ahead of the engines if I can get […]
I haven’t posted anything for a while now – funny how time gets away from you. This is a scan of a slide I took in 1995 of the Long Point Light at Provincetown on the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. This was another of my ‘run and gun’ trips. There are just so many places I still want to see. I fool myself that one day I’ll go back and take more time, but so far I haven’t.
I’ve often flown over the wind farms of the Texas panhandle. The other weekend I had an opportunity to drive through some of them. I think the first wind turbine I recall was the one just off Junction 11 of the M4 in Reading, England. Since then, now many years ago, I’ve grown used to seeing these turbines sprouting from the tops of distant hills while driving in California and other US states. Driving along I-20, I felt harried on […]
I was playing around with an image I captured of a St. Peter Street balcony in Photoshop (CC 2015.5) today, messing around with some filters when the image went berzerkoid on me. I’m actually intrigued by the way my image was morphed by the software so I decided to keep it and post it here. Below it you’ll find what I was actually trying to get to. I usually try to compose all my images both vertically and horizontally if […]
For today’s photo I chose an image of one set of air vents at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, TX. The building is named after Houston engineer George Rufus Brown, who joined his brother, Herman, in his fledgling engineering company, Brown and Root, in 1922. I worked with successor company, KBR, from 2009 – 2013. In these air vents I find similarities with the services of the Pompidou Center in Paris. And when I lived in […]
