“Choose Your Path”
This week I chose to go check out Buffalo Bayou. I had never been before this trip. I pulled up google maps and headed off to where it told me, which happened to be the side of a road with no shoulder…Yeah, that’s what I thought too.
I followed the road till I could make a U-turn and as I did I noticed the Police Officers Memorial. I had heard of the memorial before, but had no idea it was located at Buffalo Bayou. That is where I decided to park. I took a quick look at the memorial and a few photos and continued around the park.
After walking about a half mile I came across two bridges that converged to a point. The sun was beginning to set fast, so I made my decision to set up and shoot the Y where the bridges meet. I chose this for a few reasons. One I tend to like shooting symmetry, and I liked the fact that is was not a perfect symmetry. Two being a pathway that splits it also creates an emotion of decisions you may have made in the past or ones you are currently pondering. The bonus third reason was I did’t have time to find anything better, so I made do.
I tried out a few angles on the point and settled on the middle. I didn’t like the perspective of the other angles, high looking down or low looking up, they cut off parts of the scene which made the image choppy.
I took several images as the sun began to set hoping to get some nice colors in the sky. That did’t really happen until blue hour. The sky turned a very nice shade of blue which contrasted well as the lights came on, producing an orange light.
Before I had set up I walked to the end of the bridge and noticed the “Tolerance” art display. Again I had seen this before, but had not realized this was also at the Bayou. While these are really cool and interesting, I didn’t want to shoot these until after sunset so this worked out perfectly! So after I had collected all the shots I wanted for my main “hero” image, I headed over to these and took the shot below.
“Diversity”
The main reason for waiting until after sunset to photograph these is because I knew they lit up at night. There are about a half a dozen or so of these statues and I settled on those two with that composition. I wanted to use the rule of thirds for the main subject and having the bridge in the background is a nice bonus.
Let me know what you want to know more about in the comments. I have more to shoot in my Photographing Houston series so check back next week to see where i’m going next.
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