Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oliver, Houston is a magical place with lots, and I mean lots of traffic. Architecture: Houston has as many signature buildings in its downtown district as any city. Start with the Pennzoil building, then try the Republic Bank Building, then scoot over to the Transco Tower in the Galleria district. You can spend days in the downtown area working with the angles, the plaza sculptures, the churches near Sam Houston park NWof downtown next to the high rises. Industrial images: Use a local map and spend some time around the ship channel. From the ship channel east to New Orleans probably half the petrochemicals in the US are stored, cracked, created, or refined. At the far edge of La Porte there is a very large semi accessible container port. Art(Modern) In the Medical District you can find a very well done exhibit centered on Mark Rothko. There is also a nice planetarium there. Coast. From Galveston up the ship channel until it gets Industrialized there is lots of opportunity to record the shrimping industry and other fishing enterprises. The area around Kemah is probably the easiest to navigate. This includes fish markets, docks where the boats unload, etc. In the early eighties this was an ugly place as many Vietnamese settled in to the fishing business displacing the previous groups. NASA in Clear Lake City. Near original saw grass lowlands near the San Jacinto Battleground. Ima Hogg's house if you like estates. What you won't find a lot of is "street activity" Houston is hot and humid. It is not nick-named the "Swamp" for nothing. Any street activity is going to be in the Montrose district, and the area just north of the city of West University. Don Dory dorysrus@mindspring.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html