Urban: July 2005 Archives
Another shot of downtown Houston taken Sunday afternoon. When I hit "auto-levels" in Photoshop (the default treatment given to all of my photos before doing anything else), the gray sky turned white. That's usually an undesirable effect, but in this case I never hit the undo button because I liked the effect.
I like how the buildings look so start and imposing, and houw I got the mirrored curved building exactly end-on. From the side, it looks like the one to its right.
Downtown Houston, shot Sunday afternoon and digitally cross-processed using a neat little action I downloaded from the Texas Photo Forum.
I'm not quite sure how anyone managed to get a hole-in-one here, considering this hole was in the ceiling. That takes a great Putt-Putt player.
Happy Independence Day!
For the past two years, I've spent the 4th of July in Atlanta, where I've joined 55,000 others in the annual running of the . This year, I won't be there because I got lazy, waited too long, and plane tickets got too expensive. I have a number, and it is sitting on my end table, sad and lonely.
I took this photo a year or two ago. It's the view of Atlanta through the windshield of a car, heading into town from the east. I think we'd just finished having ice cream at the old .
Update: Submitted for 7/12/05 , Filters. This was filtered through the car windshield. Maybe not quite what the theme was going for, but works all the same.
