At some point everybody shoots a picture of the downtown Houston skyline from the Sabine Street Bridge. This shot was processed for HDR using 3 separate images I took just as the sun was going down. Each was shot at varying exposures on the 11-18mm ultra-wide angle lens and blended together using Photomatix
Due to the rampant theft of this image I was forced to remove the high res version. If you would like to purchase this photo for use on your Web site, please contact me.
There were some amazing storms early early this morning caused by the approaching hurricane “Dolly”
Since I am “lucky” enough to be up at the crack of dawn I was lucky enough to see the sun punch a hole in the storm clouds as I rolled into work.
The Technology Bytes 13th anniversary party was a huge success! Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate with us!
Many more pics in the 13th Anniversary Party Gallery
Call it what you may, but 1400 Smith St. will always be “The Enron Building” to me.
This was shot handheld from Bell @ Louisiana using my 17-50mm 2.8
The Lee and Joe Jamail Skatepark nestles up to the Houston skyline over near Sabine and Memorial Drive. A state-of-the-art 30,000 square foot in-ground public facility, it’s pretty spectacular to see and, being free, a great entertainment opportunity for skaters and observers on any given day. It’s also well lit and open till 10pm so you come late and beat the heat.
My friend Groovehouse had been posting some pics to his Flickr site and I thought I might go try my hand.
Fortunately when I arrived at the park Groovehouse happened to be there. You can see him working his craft in these two photos:
I really like this place. The lighting, the people, the layout of the park. It’s fun to just watch and it’s really fun to shoot.
Groove helped me out with some tips and was especially helpful in pointing out who the particularly good skaters were so I could be ready to shoot when they “dropped in.”
This is Ben Raybourn
And this is Charlie Urquhart:
Obviously, I’ve got a lot to learn about shooting this kind of stuff.
I have some additional photos here.
Jim Henkel on guitar, David Beebe on vocals and drum and Allen Hill on bass.
Looks very cool larger and on black
Dwight Silverman of The Houston Chronicle’s Tech Blog and co-host of Technology Bytes proudly shows us his iPhone. I chose to let the iPhone remain in color while desaturating the rest. I find the contrast between the shiny new technology and the not so shiny new tech geek rather compelling.
Nothing personal, Dwight!
On Sunday I met up with over 70 of my fellow Houston area photographers and Flickr users at The Houston Museum Of Natural Science for a rare photographic opportunity. My good friend Laurie (aka Laanba) had arranged with Erin Blatzer, Assistant Director of Public Relations at Houston Museum of Natural Science, to have us all gain FREE access to the museum after closing time to shoot pictures. We had access to photograph things that you normally don’t get to take pictures of. This, combined with the ability setup tripods and avoid the crowd made for some rather unique results which can be seen in the Assigment: Houston Flickr pool.
Assigment: Houston is a fantastic Houston photography group that brings Houston area photographers together with a theme each month and this month it was the museum. In previous months it’s been Galveston, Discovery Green, Downtown and so forth. It’s cool to see all the different takes the members come up with.
I really enjoyed this meetup and look forward to the next one.
This is (in my opinion) the best shot I got of the evening (click to see the larger version):
Here are a few of my other favorites
I didn’t end up shooting as many pictures as I could have, mostly due to jabber jawing with people I have never met in person or simply just don’t see often enough. The rest of my puny collection reside in my Flickr gallery