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It's been awhile -- I've been extremely busy with the new job. Currently down in Texas commissioning new automation for a pumping station in the boonies of northern Texas. So: not much time for photography, just some grab shots here and there I did driving up from Houston last week, and one from the small town I'm staying in (about 5000 population).
Hope everyone is well. Ice and snow storm here today -- and to think I thought I was dodging all that being down south here. Who knew?
I have the X-E2 and X-M1 and my lenses with me, and these were all with the 23mm f/1.4, 12mm (Zeiss) f/2.8, or the 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8. Click through to flickr for EXIF data if you want details.
First up is some shots from Decatur, Texas. They still have the courthouse decorated from Christmas with big strings of red lights. In Decatur is a steak house called "Sweetie Pie's" which is an AWESOME place to get an amazing steak. Best one I've had in Texas so far and that's saying something. It's named (so I was told) after an ox the owner once had and the head of that ox is on the wall inside.
Now, most don't know this, but Texas has it's own style of Kung Fu and the highest attainment is the "Rhinestone Belt". This cutie of a hostess outside Sweetie Pie's will give you a time before you can be seated and don't argue. See the headband and the Rhinestone Belt? Don't mess...
Don't Mess: She has a "Rhinestone Belt" by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
Here's the courthouse:
Decatur Courthouse by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
On the way up to Decatur during the day (6 hour trip) we stopped in a place called Waxahacie to check out the courthouse there. These small Texas towns generally have amazing courthouses in general (like the one in Decatur) but the one in Waxahacie is unique.
The story I was told is that a French architect was brought over to design and supervise construction. While here, he had an affair with a local woman that eventually went sour. The legend is that the faces carved in the stone on the building changed over the course of years of construction from fairy traditional and benign to angry and glaring and it's so. I took a bunch of shots, but sure enough there are beatific women's faces and important and serene males... then the woman stays serene but the male faces look desperate and finally the woman is snarling and the male faces are angry. There's a story in those faces for sure. Here's one of them from the middle ground before it get's grotesque, lol.
Waxahacie Courthouse by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
And here's some of the courthouse architecture in general.
Waxahacie Courthouse by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
Waxahacie Courthouse: Time Flies by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
And one more from Bowie, Texas, where I'm currently staying.
Bowie Mission by Night by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
Hope everyone is well. Ice and snow storm here today -- and to think I thought I was dodging all that being down south here. Who knew?
I have the X-E2 and X-M1 and my lenses with me, and these were all with the 23mm f/1.4, 12mm (Zeiss) f/2.8, or the 55-200mm f/3.5-4.8. Click through to flickr for EXIF data if you want details.
First up is some shots from Decatur, Texas. They still have the courthouse decorated from Christmas with big strings of red lights. In Decatur is a steak house called "Sweetie Pie's" which is an AWESOME place to get an amazing steak. Best one I've had in Texas so far and that's saying something. It's named (so I was told) after an ox the owner once had and the head of that ox is on the wall inside.
Now, most don't know this, but Texas has it's own style of Kung Fu and the highest attainment is the "Rhinestone Belt". This cutie of a hostess outside Sweetie Pie's will give you a time before you can be seated and don't argue. See the headband and the Rhinestone Belt? Don't mess...
Don't Mess: She has a "Rhinestone Belt" by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
Here's the courthouse:
Decatur Courthouse by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
On the way up to Decatur during the day (6 hour trip) we stopped in a place called Waxahacie to check out the courthouse there. These small Texas towns generally have amazing courthouses in general (like the one in Decatur) but the one in Waxahacie is unique.
The story I was told is that a French architect was brought over to design and supervise construction. While here, he had an affair with a local woman that eventually went sour. The legend is that the faces carved in the stone on the building changed over the course of years of construction from fairy traditional and benign to angry and glaring and it's so. I took a bunch of shots, but sure enough there are beatific women's faces and important and serene males... then the woman stays serene but the male faces look desperate and finally the woman is snarling and the male faces are angry. There's a story in those faces for sure. Here's one of them from the middle ground before it get's grotesque, lol.
Waxahacie Courthouse by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
And here's some of the courthouse architecture in general.
Waxahacie Courthouse by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
Waxahacie Courthouse: Time Flies by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
And one more from Bowie, Texas, where I'm currently staying.
Bowie Mission by Night by Entropic Remnants, on Flickr
I moved to small town Texas 30 years ago and stayed for several years.
