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Seagull in Flight

Seagull in Flight
Seagull in Flight
This is a picture I captured of seagull in flight at White Rock Lake in Dallas last year. This bird was part of a flock that was being fed by a couple on the shore tossing food in the air. The serenity in this pictures belies the surrounding pandemonium created by the feeding gulls that was taking place at the time. It is definitely difficult to get the camera settings and point of focus just right to capture a good still image in that type of moving wildlife environment.
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Photography and Images Rediscovered

Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and with the Trinity River at flood stage in the foreground.

Photographs Rediscovered

I have often said that when capturing images, as soon as the camera shutter closes one has visually captured the past. It may not feel that way while in the moment, but it will become increasingly apparent as time passes and the captured image is revisited.

Shooting Photographs sometimes begins and ends in one day for me with a 2 step process of capturing images, then downloading them to my computer. Once downloaded, unless I am time-limited, it may be some time before I get around to revisiting some of those images. It is later, when going through my tens of thousands of images, that I often “rediscover” images that I had forgotten about and depending on how much time has passed, may have taken on some level of historical significance. This picture was taken the last (and 20th) time the Trinity River crested above 40ft, a literal “high water mark” that has only been exceeded 22 times since the flood of 1908, before the Dallas levee system was built. Only time will tell if this image will gain any real historical significance, but for me, it created an opportunity to experience a nice morning at daybreak in order to capture a rare image of the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge with the Dallas skyline reflected in a body of water that is the flooded Trinity River. I am not sure when an opportunity like that will arise again but was happy to recently “rediscover” this image.

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Statue at Fair Park

I always enjoy seeing the statues out of all the attractions at Fair Park and watching how the light and shadows change throughout the day on those statues facing south, toward the sun. They are artistically lit with artificial light at night in very colorful and creative patterns. I have yet to get a good picture of them at night but plan to on my next visit. This statue is the work of Lawrence Tenney Stevens.