Elotes, Farmer’s Market, Dallas, Texas
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I’ver written about elotes before. I don’t eat them very often – they must be about the most unhealthy thing in the world. They start with corn… which isn’t all that great – but then they add every thing that tastes good but is bad for you.
Then I get to add a bunch of hot sauce.
1936 Monark Silverking, Fair Park, Dallas, Texas
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One of the riders on the Stop and Photograph the Roses bike ride met up with us about halfway through. He was delayed because he was picking up a “new” bicycle.
It was a 1936 Monark Silverking and it was way cool. Made of cast aluminum and swaged tubing it was a long way ahead of its time. I didn’t know that there were pre WWII aluminum bicycles.
We posed it in front of the Art Deco sculptures in Fair Park. I realized that the bike was made in the same year as the architecture. It shows.
1936 Monark Silverking, you can see the integrated lock – the key releases the steering tube which locks at ninety degrees.
Leonhardt Lagoon, Fair Park, Dallas, Texas
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I made it a point on the Stop and Photograph the Roses bike ride to swing by Fair Park. I love the Art Deco architecture, sculpture, and murals there. Plus, there is Leonhardt Lagoon, with the incredible 1986 walk-on sculpture by Patricia Johanson, Saggitaria Platyphylla (Delta Duckpotato).
“The lagoon was in the middle of Dallas’ largest park with four major museums along the shore, and it seemed a wonderful opportunity to convert it into a home for native wildlife—ducks, turtles, fish, shrimp, insects—by cleaning up the water and conceiving of landscaping as food. The “sculpture” was thought of as not just aesthetic, but rather a means of bringing people into contact with the plants and animals and the water.”
—-Patricia Johanson
It’s interesting, but there really is a Sagittaria Platyphylla (Delta Duckpotato) – it’s a water weed. The only thing is, the real thing is spelled slightly differently than the title of the sculpture (one G, two T’s). I’m sure she did this on purpose – for something of this size, you want to get it right.
Saggitaria Platyphylla (Delta Duckpotato)
Saggitaria Platyphylla (Delta Duckpotato)
Saggitaria Platyphylla (Delta Duckpotato)
A pond in Fair Park. The red paths are part of a massive sculpture by Patricia Johanson. I have always loved those red paths running through the water, weeds, and turtles. A neglected jewel in the city.
A while back I went on a fun, educational, and very cool bike ride that explored some murals in the Design District and West Dallas that had been commissioned by the Dallas Contemporary gallery. At the time, they had a new project going, Inside Out – The People’s Art Project, where they set up a series of photo booths and had people come by to get their photo done. These were then printed bigger than life size and put up at various locations around the city.
I wanted to participate in it, but never was able to put it together – when I could get down to a booth and get my photo shot. I should have tried harder, but time slips.
Anyway, last weekend, on our Stop and Photograph the Roses bike ride, we ran across one of the Inside Out installations. It’s been up a while and it getting long in the tooth, the paper tearing and falling off the wall, the photos fading, time is taking its toll.
Somehow, I liked it even better that way.
Amanda Popken of Dallas Cycle Style
Chris Curnutt of Biking in Dallas
Photo taken during the Stop and Photograph the Roses bicycle ride.
I had seen the Dallas Eye Before – but have never been able to stop close by it in the daytime. We rode our bikes from the Arts District down to the little side-street Stone Place – a little known oasis in downtown. A long time favorite spot of mine – I remember it from when I first moved here. It, like everything else, has been up and down many times since then.
Unfortunately, we could not cross the iron fence that surrounds the orb. I guess they are afraid that if the uncontrolled public were allowed in, the unwashed masses, things might get out of control and someone might get poked in the eye.
The Dallas Eye,
Dallas, Texas
Photo taken during the Stop and Photograph the Roses bicycle ride.
Magnolia Hotel Building (Pegasus) and Joule Hotel (pool)
Dallas, Texas
Magnolia Hotel (Pegasus) and Joule Hotel (pool)
Dallas, Texas
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer
Seersucker Bicycle Ride and Picnic
Dallas, Texas
Yesterday, I had some photographs I took at the Seersucker Bicycle Ride in Lee Park in Dallas.
Today, I’ll put a few more up – but this time, they were posed shots. Something different, something I want to work on. I’ve never been comfortable posing people for photographs. The only way to get used to it – to get better at it – is to do it over and over again.
So says the master.
I have a long way to go.
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(click for larger version on flickr)
Amanda Popken
Seersucker Bicycle Ride and Picnic
Dallas, Texas
Everybody had so much fun at the Seersucker Bicycle Ride and Picnic the other day. There was a lot of photography going on – such great shots. One discussion was about the relative advantages of taking the regular posed shot versus the technique of staying still and waiting for the photograph to come to you.
Amanda Popken of Dallas Cycle Style had brought a couple of kites on her bicycle. I stayed in one place while she ran past, trailing a kite behind her.
(click to open larger version in flickr)
(click to open larger version in flickr)
(click to open larger version in flickr)
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
Water Tower Mural
Deep Ellum
Dallas, Texas
You could see the real water tower from the mural. It’s the little thing in the bottom right of the photo. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get the light – or the space to use a telephoto – so you can’t see both very well.
No matter, here’s the real thing, from a blog entry almost three years old.
An old water tower rises above Deep Ellum.
Bill Chance 