Photo 04-13-2008

I'm trying to challenge myself to take different pictures than the nature pictures that I normally take..... so I decided to start with the 26 things challenge for april and may. This is a list of 26 subjects to take pictures of. Everybody has a different view of these subjects and the results can be really refreshing. It really stimulates your creativity. So here are the first two shots: #19 "public art" and #20 "shoes" The shoes hanging on the tree are there for the child abuse prevention month. Every pair of shoes represents one confirmed case of child abuse.

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Photo 04-12-2008

Do you have that? That you see all these nice photo opportunities, but just don't have the time to shoot? I had it today.... I have a lot of ideas, but just no time to go out and shoot them... so just a picture from last weekend, since I might even have to work double shift tomorow, so there's probably not much time again. Hopefully next week I will have some more time.

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Photo 04-11-2008

A little bit more history on the first picture that I posted from yesterday.... this is called the Balinese Room. At the moment it's a restaurant with giftshops and a cybercafe. But in the 1940and 1950's this was one of the big gambling casinos in south texas. And since it was not legal to gamble in texas, rumor goes is that they build the casino (the white, little wider building at the end of the photo) in the back, so they could stall the police and make sure all the signs of gambling were gone before they were there. Appartently ZZtop made a song of this casino in 1975 called balinese:

Deep in the South of Texas

not so long ago,

there on a crowded island

in the Gulf of Mexico

it didn't take too much money,

man, but it sure was nice.

You could dance all night if you felt all right,

drinking whiskey and throwing dice.

And everybody knows

it was hard to leave.

And everybody knows

it was down at the Balinese.

Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill & Frank Beard

So for today a couple more pictures of the other side of "the Balinese room"

Photo 04-10-2008

Today I challenged myself to not take pictures of nature... but take pictures of manmade structures. I guess I'm getting a little tired of only nature pictures.... I need to find a new challenge! The second picture shows that winter has come to an end, we're starting to get towards summertime!

Photo 04-09-2008

Another food picture today.... no this is not my pizza, but my husband's. Mine was too boring with only pineapple and tuna on it. His has peppers, olives, capers and I don't know what else, makes a much better picture. But I had to be fast, because he was hungry and in about 15 minutes there was nothing left of this delicious pizza!!

Photo 04-08-2008

Not much time for pictures... only for chocolate!

Photo 04-07-2008

No cute pictures today..... just some green creatures that I saw today:
A treefrog, don't you think these frogs look so fake?

This little green lizard was either trying to impress the other lizard (not in the picture) or trying to scare it away, either way every couple of seconds the lizard would kind of blow up with this red sack!
And the last picture.... I wonder who is catching who?


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