I attended the Ciclovía Dallas on the Houston Street Viaduct today (for those of you in the New York metropolitan area, this ‘Houston’ is pronounced ‘Hyoo-stun’ and not like the Houston (‘Howsden’) Street in lower Manhattan…) as a nominal part of the North Texas Photo Explorers Meetup Group (though I didn’t see any of the group, …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
365.107 Interesting Blooms
I shot a bit of Real Estate today, and these flowers were blooming nicely on the front walk, so I grabbed a shot. Lucky I did, since I didn’t make the time to shoot any more today. Shame on me. I’m not too impressed with this shot, but I do like the buds and former …
365.106 El Paisano Hotel, Marfa TX, 6am
As it must happen, the first cloudless morning was the morning I was leaving. Luckily, I awoke early enough to finish packing the car and shoot some stars. No real luck with the stars, but I did make this panorama of the front—or side, I guess, though this is where I entered and exited—and I …
365.105 Racing Skyward
I enjoyed my first good night’s sleep since last Thursday (the last night I slept in my own apartment, in my own bed), and woke up at my usual—if wildly unreasonable—time: 4am. I did doze a bit, but was up and atom by 5, tripod grabbed from the trunk and remote release forgotten in the room …
365.104 Lightning, perhaps
After an early morning photowalk around town and a nice breakfast with Momma, I pulled out of Marfa around 9am and drove north to Balmorhea (and the wildly underwhelming Balmorhea State Park, with its artesian spring-fed swimming pool that was ‘closed until further notice’ and RV-friendly campsites), then back south through Fort Davis and the …
365.103 Bees are in the What Now?
“Bees are in the what now?” is a throwaway line from a Simpson’s episode (the one where Homer ends up owning all the sugar in town…) that an old friend of mine used to use as a catch-phrase of some sort, and is quite fitting as a title for this throwaway photo. I shot 177 …
365.102 Easter Morning in Marfa
I would likely have something more interesting than what is pretty much nothing more than a lens flare test shot to share, but I spent the day touring the Chinati Foundation, and after a whole day of minimalist art, and after a whole day spent running on minimalist sleep, not to mention the it’s-my-birthday-so-I’m-doing-some-self-criticism-and-have-lots-to-criticize, I’m …