Construction, Part II

Really, I don't understand why I'm so attracted to the way construction sites look.

Construction

Can be oh-so-pretty.

RIP Odin

You'll be missed, little buddy.

Ambulance

It is a medical center, after all.

Sunset

The best a large city can do at sunset, I gather.

Also, this is my hundredth post on this blog. Woo! I would have a blogparty to celebrate, but I have absolutely no idea what that would entail.

Wavy

This building taunted me with its various reflections for weeks and weeks.

Wind

Is that what this is for?

Cars 'n' Buildings

It's like downtown part 2 at the medical center.

Texas Medical Center

R. Gerald Turner, president of SMU, always says, "life is too short to go to a school with an ugly campus." (That might be an imprecise paraphrase, but bear with me.) While the UT Houston Medical School building leaves much to be desired aesthetically, the Texas Medical Center itself is quite beautiful, especially at night. I finally got the chance to just walk around the med center with my headphones in and my camera at hand, at sunset and through complete darkness, and the series of photos I post in the next week or more will be from that excursion.
Enjoy!


This isn't the actual medical school building where my classes are, but probably a research building owned by the school.

New Photo Series

Coming soon!

Stay tuned.

Spanish Steps

This was the beginning of my photography days.

Glass

Vatican, although I don't know anything else about this.

Reli

I think I should post a few Vatican photos from when I was in Rome in October of 2008. No particular reason, except that it was a great trip.

Really, over-exposure works sometimes.
Also this was taken on an old Canon Powershot rather than on my Nikon D90, so the black-and-white conversion is not quite what I would have liked. But better than some point-and-shoot cameras I've seen.

Current State of My Brain

Thanks, med school!

Mooning

No, not like that!

Tilt-Shift

If only I had time and equipment to really research and get into tilt-shift photography. It can achieve quite a few things, but one of the more amazing results is that the resulting photograph looks like a miniature diorama. Here is the Flickr set of tilt-shift photos. Hard to believe they are photos of real scenes.

And, here is an amazing video by Keith Loutit putting tilt-shift in motion:

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Thanks to Sam Smith (Ben Folds' drummer and excellent graphics designer) for turning me on to this.

An Ode To Birthdays

The problem, of course, is that
The bleary excitement of the day ahead
Is no longer a frazzled nod to something special,
A small reprieve from Copernican doctrine.

The day ahead, of course, is that
Blindingly problematic emblem
Of a condition so universal,
A veritable canon incarnate.

Of course, but how can you miss
The ocean at your feet,
The clouds at your fingertips,
Hey! You should eat that cotton candy.


Dedicated to the wonderful man in this photo.
Happy birthday!

Rail

Flying over LA, so to speak.

Water

Feng shui, I guess.

Hexagons

An art gallery, Claremont, CA.