Galveston, oh, Galveston!

I've been in the middle of a huge painting project ... it hasn't gone quite as I hoped.  You would have thought a visual person, a person who loves photography, light, and color would have noticed before putting two coats of paint on the baseboards and two double-hung windows in my office that the color did not match the existing color the way it was supposed to.

Grrr...  I wanted "Galaxy Depths" (a fancy name for black), but I got GREY.  Boo.  Hiss.  So I'll be buying some more paint Monday and tackling this painting project when I'd hoped to be finished with it.

In the meantime, we are heading to Galveston in a few hours to take a little time travel trip back to old Victorian England at the Dickens on the Strand festival.  I have three batteries fully charged, along with three memory cards (1 GB, 2 GB, and 2 GB respectively).  I'm thinking I should be able to take LOTS of photos with three batteries and three fairly large memory cards.  Don't you?

I'll be sure to post some of the best here when I get back.  

"Leaving Freeport"

Leaving Freeport

Last week, I was sitting at the stop sign waiting for an opportunity to turn onto the highway heading toward Lake Jackson and I saw this cloud.  I don't know why it intrigued me so, but for some reason it made me think of one of those heavy, ominous clouds that show up in the science fiction movies right before some little green man says, "Take me to your leader..." (or something like that).  There's a lot of construction along this stretch of highway right now, and in addition to liking the looks of the cloud, I also liked the contrast of the blue sky, the less-than-perfect grass growing along the pavement, and the sandy scars left behind by the road crew equipment.

Taken with my Canon G10.  Shutter speed 1/1000, Aperture f/4.0, Focal length 6.1mm, ISO 80.

Would love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

Schmap Fort Worth Travel Guide

This was an exciting little tip of the hat in my direction recently -- I received an email a while back from the managing editor of Schmap Guides regarding a photo I'd posted on Flickr back when we traveled to Fort Worth to see the exhibit of early color photography at the Amon Carter Museum. Apparently it was short-listed for inclusion in their updated Fort Worth Guide and she wanted to know if they had my permission to include it in the guide. No compensation, of course, except my name by the photo and a link back to my Flickr site. Well, doh! Of course ... I mean, I was totally honored by the mere consideration.

Just got home to discover that - YEAH! - they selected my photo for inclusion in the information regarding the Amon Carter Museum. So here's the widget below - you may have to click on the arrows a couple of times, but you'll see my photo of the museum signage, announcing an exhibit called "The Art of the American Snapshot" ... and my NAME! Whoo hoo! I've included the actual photo below the widget, as well.

I guess the thrill is ... it's one thing for me to upload all my photos to Flickr and share them with you. It's a totally different thing to have someone else say "This is a good shot and we'd like to use it, if you don't mind."