Old School

As this school, SMU has been around for 116 years. Some of the buildings are new and modern while others are more classical and some are old school. This more classical building has a walkway up to it's front pillars and tall door. Something else interesting about this picture is the two twin lightposts on the sides of the picture. They are symmetrical so that is nice but they are covering some of the windows which is not good.

Open Water

In the earlier parts of the day, around 10, there were no boats on the water. I was confused but then jumped on the chance that with no one around that lake would make for a cool picture. The clouds were yet again in my favor. They are just scattered randomly making the picture have different points to where your eye is drawn to. An added feature I didn't realize at the time but realize how wonderful it is now.

Pilot

The last time I checked, boats this smaller didn't have autopilot. I mean maybe some but not enough to drive, control, park the boat. This means that a human has to pilot the boat. In this picture, we were tied up to the boat but if we were on the lake at the time and this was the same picture, I think something would be wrong.

Moss

In the shady morning then the sunny afternoon is this rock covered in Moss. I took this picture in the afternoon so the light was on the rock. This meant that the sunlight was coming from behind the rock. For some people, it might be bad but I think this is actually good. The sunlight creates a shadow from the Moss adding some more character to the picture.

Lake Peephole

Peeping through a hole in the trees is the lake. On our side is the green grass and moss and then the tree create the door. Once you open the door you can see the lake, a few power lines, and a boat. I made the sky a bright white to counteract with the dark trees and grass. Looking through the peephole is an amazing view. You can see clear across the lake and it is one of the most pretty lakes I've seen.

Disappearing Sky

As the sun sets on this beautiful lake, the trees and lake houses made for the perfect bottom to the bright sunset up top. The sun was shining away from the trees which made the trees dark and some even black. I would like to thank the Whitehead's for inviting and hosting us, I gained some amazing pictures that I would never get anywhere else.

Nightfall

As I hinted yesterday, I am starting this series on a lake. I didn't have an underwater camera or a way to take pictures from above, but ground pictures are one of the most seen pictures. It was cloudy that night so the sun could sometimes go through and other times not. That is why some of the clouds are red and others are gray, some are being hit with the sun and the others are not.

Pollination

As this part of the Dallas Arts District comes to a close, I am going to open up a new category. This new category will feature water, a boat, and a place to put the boat on. Don't worry about the Dallas Arts District coming to a close because I will be going there and taking pictures all the way until April 2018. Just wait a minute or two and that series will be back.

Summer Flower

Most people think that bees only come out in the spring to make the flower bloom but they really are out between spring and the beginning of fall. Without bees, the Earth would become a dark and deoxygenated place. Bees help provide the Earth with oxygen since they keep the flowers alive. Without them, could you imagine what life would be like?

Honey

Honey is that sweet thing that we put on biscuits, bread, and anything else that needs something sweet to it. It takes around 22,700 bees to make honey. That might seem like a lot of bees, but if the queen makes 100,000-200,000 bees a year, does it seem like a lot now? This means that one colony of bees makes about 5 jars a year.

Summer

Nothing beats the Texas summer heat than some cold water. Still in the arts district, this park has a water feature, a tree 'house', and a play area. As I tried to get the pictures of the water, I was very aware of what the water might do. I tried extremely carefully to stay as far away as I could and not get my camera, or me, wet and I only got a few specs of water.

Closer Look

This is another example of looking closer. It only takes a few seconds to move closer to that object, but one look at that could change your life. You could look at a fountain or flower but try something weird or different and see what you can find. Maybe that one look could change your whole view on that object you looked at.

Rainbow Way


Above an entrance to a park is this multicolored arch. The architect of this didn't stop there with the cool features. They added the symmetrical, white beams to add even more interesting features to the arch. I wish I could have taken a picture from above but that would require a way to lift the camera and I didn't think that was the best.

Wrong Seat

As birds fly they get tired and they have to rest. This bird decided to rest on a chair and not a tree. First, the bird went to another chair but I walked too close and scared it to this chair. I crept up ever so slowly this time and was able to get this picture of a bird sitting in the wrong seat.

Through the Air

Most people only see the fountains as water shooting up from the ground but take a picture of that water and you are able to see the individual droplets of water. The water is not always as the eye can see it. Any person walking by this might just see a stream of water shooting up and then back down. The next time you're by a fountain, stop and take a closer look. It might be more than rising and falling water.

Ant's Eye View


Down on an Ant's level, is where the tree are towering above and humans are monsters. We always see from a Bird's eye view but almost never from the ground up. I wonder how big we are, or how big some of the Oak trees are to the ants. Those must seem enormous. Just think, we believe that some skyscrapers are tall. How do the Ants think of them?

Rainy Tree


In the same inch deep pool of water as the Sunny Tree, the rain had started to fall and the water started to ripple. This picture could not have been made if it wasn't for the sun and clouds. The sun was blocked and the clouds provided a clean gray background. If the sun had been out, the background would have been blue and bright white.

Protection

On the outside of another museum in the Dallas Arts District, is a guardian. Not your average human security guard but rather a marble carved Lion. This artist gave every piece of the Lion something that a real Lion might have. I wasn't able to go inside of the museum, but I captured the first thing that you would see, the guard 'dog'.

Stretched


A rock carver made an interesting sculpture of a human face. He had all of the features of a human on the face and neck but had everything closer to together. I like the type of stone that he chose. It has bumps and has several different colors in it some like brown, black, and a dark tan. This is all what makes this human so different yet so similar.

Sun Deflector

On the inside of the sculpture museum, up the trio of stairs, is a glass museum. The only problem with the glass is that the sun will ruin it. To stop this the museum added sun deflectors on top of the ceiling. There still is some light coming from the sun up top but not enough that the pieces are being ruined.