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Corpus Christi in November!

11/25/2013

 
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A WRITER'S WIT
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Eugène Ionesco
Born November 26, 1912

Photos of Our Trip, November 8-10

GUIDE TO PHOTOS ABOVE: 1. I love how the sky opens up to make three perfect circles of light on the Gulf. 2-11. The various colors of canvas, the verticality of masts and pointed posts on which to tie off played against diagonal sail lines. How neon signs gleam at night. How the water looks a different color every other hour. 12-13. The Omni Corpus Christi Hotel Bayfront Tower on Shoreline Boulevard. Being eighteen stories up affords one a vertiginous view that makes the muscles in my legs quiver, as I lean over the balcony. 14-15. The Omni pool from eighteen stories up. 16-17. These photos feature the Nikon D3200 concept of layering two photos. 18. Strolling along Shoreline Boulevard toward the Art Museum of South Texas. 19. A view of the Omni from Shoreline Boulevard. 20. Palm-lined street leading toward the old Nueces County Courthouse, abandoned since 1977. 21-22. Old Nueces County Courthouse, built 1914. 23. Great Blue Heron, Gulls. 24. Dunlin 25. Dunlin 26. Great Blue Heron. 27. Great Blue Heron, Juvenile. 28. Brown Pelican. 29. Gulls. 30-31. Fountain near the Art Museum of South Texas. 32. I came upon what seemed like a Quinceañera photo shoot. Couldn’t resist the colors. 33-34. The Art Museum of South Texas. 35. A downtown church sits with dignity among all the other buildings. 36. Part of my ongoing series of photographing FedEx trucks in various cities (the first one appeared quite serendipitously between my camera and Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts). 37. A downtown eatery. 38. A colorful bus stop. 39. Renting a car is easy. 40. Holiday décor. 41. Antique jalopy. 42. These benches along Shoreline Boulevard deserve the sepia treatment somehow. 43. Gazebo on Shoreline Boulevard. 44. Segway tourists. 45. Roller blade residents? 46. HBO staff members interviewing in preparation for a PPV fight that night. 47-81. All of these photos were taken at the South Texas Botanical Gardens and Nature Center. There is something melancholy about viewing exotic animals (and flowers and butterflies) out of context. It’s almost as obscene as staring at naked humans . . . in public . . . and paying to do it. And yet if we have not places like this, we might never see anything but a photograph of these rare creatures. 73-76. The Nikon D3200 overlays. 77-81. The Nikon also allows you to manipulate colors before the pictures leave the camera. Fun!

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