Night Shoot - Klyde Warren Park

Klyde Warren Park is one of the newest parks in Dallas, opening recently in downtown.  It is built over the RF Thorton Freeway.  Its an urban park focused on activity and events.   This was planned as a meetup shoot but with the cool weather and wind, only 2 of us showed up!   The park still has a lot of construction but there is lots to see and lots of color.  I wish I had arrived about 30-45 minutes earlier to take advantage of the waning light but was still able to get some cool shots.

Dallas West End - Scavenger Hunt

Yesterday our little photo meetup group had a scavenger hunt in downtown Dallas, specifically starting in the West End.  Again, there were only a handful of us, which is too bad as these scavenger hunts are a lot of fun, and you get some very interesting perspectives.  Its funny, for the Ft Worth one, I had a lot of similiar ideas as some of the other folks.  Not so much with this one.

Here is the full set of photos from the hunt, there's some pretty cool shots.   I think (hope) its a public site so you can enjoy them.

The topics were:

1.) Wooden
2.) WBR - Worn, Broken or Rusty (maybe macro?)
3.) TMMH - This makes me hungry
4.) O&N - Old & New (one photo)
5.) Shadows
6.) CCTC - Curved, Curves, Twisted or Circular
7.) Window(s)
8.) Motion (use a technique to convey)
9.) AEE - Alternate Exit or Entrance
10.) Working on it

Here are my shots.

At the good ol' hockey game...

How I miss the NHL...   Stupid idiots!  But thankfully there are alternatives.  Locally there is a junior team, the Texas Tornado, that is a lot of fun to watch.  Not sure what level, am thinking maybe Junior A.  Regardless, they play hard and fast.

Ryan and I went to watch the game and I took my camera to take some pictures.  I went down by the glass but it was too scuffed and dirty, so most of my shots were above the glass.  Here is a sample.

Dallas Survivor Mud Run

This popped up on my radar Thursday night, so I figured this may be cool and I should be able to get some good shots!  Well Saturday morning it was about 38F so I didn't know what to expect but it was sunny.  I got to the motocross track where they where having the event and tried to figure out how this was going to work.  The race was about 3.5 miles long and it looked tough although most of the partipants looked like they were having a good time.  It wasn't a great setup for spectators and it took me a bit of time to find a good spot but I found the mud pit at the end of the inflatable slide was about as good as it was going to get.

Here are a handful of the shots, I took a ton!

Photo Scavenger Hunt

This past Saturday we had a little scavenger hunt. It was the second one I had signed up for but the first on was cancelled due to weather and rightly so! This one was in Ft Worth Stockyards and started, at 8 am, on a Saturday... So I had to get up at 6 am on a Saturday and drive 80 minutes to Ft Worth. But you know what, it was worth it.

We only had 5 folks show up, probalby in part due to the location, but there were good shots.

The items.
1) Something Riscky (if you've been to the Stockyards, you'll get it.
2) Horns
3) Amazing
4) Spanish Influence
5) Old West
6) A sign
7) The number "5"
8) S
9) Triangle
10) Box

I think I did ok, interesting results some very literal, some not so, as were some of mine. The link to the full set of participant's pictures is here

Here are my shots, in order. I put a couple of bonus ones on the meetup site but not here.

Collage

While I was shooting during the Photo Walk, I noticed that pretty much every door in Deep Ellum was different. Doors are always interesting, especially for the curious as the lead to "something" I had an idea, which of course is not always a good thing, but deciced I should take shots of many different doors and try to build a collage. I am certainly not a wizard in Photoshop so here is my inagural effort at a collage.

Of course picking the doors to use is quite subjective. So, here's a couple of other ones that didn't make the collage, but certainly could have.