Richardson Texas Photo Journal #1

Here’s a link to the first small set of pictures I’ve taken while riding around Richardson in the evening.

I’ve really come to appreciate how easy it is to ride a bike around town in the evenings. Traffic is light after about 7pm, and right now the weather is great. A good headlight and some flashing lights for the back of the bike, and you are good to go.

Pastries

Took this pic at a local mexican restaurant. Cropped it and increased the contrast and saturation. I love pastries.

Flight canceled

Like thousands of others, my American Airlines flight was cancelled. I was supposed to fly home in the morning. So I called AA, left the phone on speaker-phone for an hour, and finally got an agent on the horn to help me out. He set me up with another flight — at 7:05am. Hopefully it will not be canceled too.

We’ll see.

Anyway, I got the notice that my flight had been canceled while I was out on a bus tour of DC. It was actually a nice night, and the monuments were really beautiful all lit up. I set my camera on “super fine, wide screen, no flash” and tried to get artistic. Click to get the wide screen version. I shot this image at the FDR memorial. I’ll post a few more soon, but now it is time for bed. If I’m lucky I can get 4 hours sleep, thanks to the airline shuffle.

Some bowl skating footage

Shot some video of my friend Fletcher, from Austin, at the Irving, Texas skatepark. All shot on my Canon SD750 digital camera. Of course, this footage on Youtube is somewhat degraded. The original quality vid is really nice.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i6uDA8U6JSs

Another SD750 shot

Last night when I got home I noticed that the interior reflection on our glass door was creating an interesting image — a mix of inside and outside. The colors were cool too. Click for the full-size image.