Trying to catch up…

Soooo busy, finally home, work is killing me. UGH.  I thought I’d start going through images, and post, backtracking since I last left off.

This will be quick/dirty. When we received the evacuation notice, we headed to a KOA in San Antonio.  My oldest boy was there visiting (he lives in Victoria), so he was sort of stuck going with us (neither of us complained! LOL)

We share many of the same interests, so exploring off the beaten path is soemthing we both enjoy.  I love graffiti, and he’s got a serious interest in it as well.  Not jsut ANY graffiti, but that special work you see that makes you do a double-take, to say “OMGOSH, why is this person NOT working!?!?!”   There is some serious talent out there.

One club in San Antonio, the WHITE RABBIT, is an awesome place!  Not just anyone gets to paint their building, as you will see in the show below.  Ya gotta be pretty uptown with paint to make those walls….Many thanks to the owner/managers for letting us in to prowl around in the morning during the closed hours, and take photographs.  See, Texas is special because of many things, but the people just put the cherry on top of the sundae!

Also included are some funny oddities we discovered prowling around at 0200 in the morning (hey, when you work all day, just ’cause you’re at a KOA doesn’t mean you’re on VACATION…. get what ya can, when ya can!)  Puffin’ Paul’s, the beer drive thru, etc… The image of the smokey stairwell was taken as Brian (my oldest) and I wandered around, and passing a club I noticed a door with a mail slot.  I asked him “Wonder what is in here…” While he said “Ma, don’t do that!” I had to peek, and voila!  There it was, a stairwell filling with creeping cigarette smoke that breathed through the club walls, traveling upward to a destination unknown.  Handheld, Canon, your 24-70 f/2.8 L is my true street friend.  My second best friend on the pavement would be the TOKINA 12-24mm f/4 aspherical  – an AMAZING value for the buck!

Tonight, I’m working on bird shows from the trip… boring for some, but ecstasy for someone like me.. :O)

(Oh, also, tucked away in here are some places with delish eats (SAMS!!!!!)

The murals were all shot in multiple shots, as many of them were in tight confines – alleys, or just areas not condusive to photographing.  No wide angle would do any of these justice, so a lot of images had to be stitched.  The actual size of all the panoramic murals in this show are anywhere from 58-64 inches long – BIG files.

Hope you enjoy San Antonio’s art!

nina

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