Robert O’Brien, of Thiro USA, Newington, Connecticut, snaps in a fuse on a Sharpstown area circuit. O’Brien, 1750+ miles from home, was just one of thousands of repairmen, linemen, disaster recovery crews, and volunteers of all flavors who came to Houston to help us recover from our recent unwelcome and ill-mannered visitor.
Lots of thanks to all of you; maybe you can come back and see us under better circumstances sometime. We’d like that. (Don’t come in August or September, though. The weather’s usually unpleasant.)
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And with eyes like this, well, a dog’s life can be pretty good, all things considered.
I have to admit that Travis didn’t really seem just terribly thrilled when I caused him to be dragged out into a Houston September with a fur coat on, but he got over it quickly and was quite a good sport about the whole insanity.
I still think I owe him a few Travvy treats before the account’s balanced… but maybe that’s just the eyes. I think I’m being manipulated. (It’s Working.)
Poor suffering puppy...
(In the interests of helping a good cause, which I like to do when I can, I’ll plug Travis’s favorite charity, Golden Beginnings Golden Retriever Rescue, who seem to have had a lot to do with getting Travis and his companion in canine crime Pecos into their current VERY happy forever home. If you like goldens, or dogs, check these folks out. If you absolutely HATE dogs, check them out anyway… a good Golden might change your mind. )
Look at the eyes….
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Okay… PHOTO I can handle.
Krystal Hardwick of Houston having fun onstage at the Brazilian Arts Foundation’s Samba on The Plaza party at Jones Plaza. A fine time was had by all, unless they weren’t trying.
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Yesterday…. and tomorrow?
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To them as celebrate such things….
Happy Holiday…
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Don’t do flower shots, normally, but this one was just hanging around right over the roof of the truck, and I thought it’d be an insult to a very pretty tree not to take the shot.
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One thing and another I haven’t been able to make it out chasing wildflowers this year, but there are still things in the files.
This is in Brenham, up nor’west.
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Spent most of yesterday evening checking out a couple of the FotoFest2008 exhibits with a friend and colleague. A three-photographer show spread over two galleries, Elder Street and Laura Rathe. Magnificent work. I’ll update later with the names of the photographers but they’re Chinese (of course, being the Fotofest theme) and they’re in the car… and I’m too asleep to remember them now.
This is the aforementioned colleague at one of the galleries, looking at shots from the Snow Festival in Tibet.
Mas, mas tarde.
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Oscar De La Rosa and La Mafia performed at the official preview party for the new “Discovery Green” park in downtown Houston. It’s still under construction, but last Saturday night they had a party with concert to celebrate. It’ll be finished RSN I’m told, and based on what’s done now it’s going to be a very nice place.
There are several large lawns, fountains, restaurant$, a small lake, lots of green space and public art pieces, a permanent stage with a sloped lawn making something like an amphitheatre, a playground for kids. It’ll be a great place for the folks who live downtown or close, a good place to go for lunch if you’re stuck downtown, and a nice venue for events. It’s also convenient to both the convention center hotel and the GRB convention center.
And it TRULY beats hell out of the prior function of the space, which was Convention Center Parking.
There are several very nice spots in there which will make nice photo backdrops for portraits of one kind or another, so I give it two weeks, tops, before they have to put up “no commercial photography” signs - unless that’s actually in the city ordinances anyway and the signs are implied. (It may be so; I don’t do the kind of work covered by those rules so I’ve never run across them.)
But it’s a nice place and the music was great. Several HSPVA alumni including Sebastian Whitaker and Chris Ruiz, plus La Mafia and Al Jarreau. I’ve had worse assignments.
It’s nippy out tonight, but tomorrow should be gorgeous. Go shoot.
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