Well, although it was raining this afternoon, my third trip to Fair Park turned out to be a good trip. Because the Texas State Fair is about to start and navigating the grounds and roadways are filled with obstacles---mainly large tent structures and stages going up---this was the last trip until after the fair. The corny dog stand was complete this trip and the lights were on. It could have been open for business.Sure would have liked a corny dog since there was no one in line!!!!
The lanterns were still being constructed. However, across the street where the display will be home, the pieces of the last two weeks had been assembled as a whole and the displays were spectacular. The trains were also included on the trip and I noticed an old box car in the area with open side doors and two coke machines inside the old box car. It was unusual and a bit out-of-place for a departing railroad museum.
The route was a bit in reverse from last week as I started out on the service road of Woodall Rogers and cut across to Dealey Plaza where I took Reunion and followed it down and around the hotel and tower coming out on Memorial Drive on the other side of the complex. The Houston Street Viaduct Bridge is between where Reunion Arena once stood and where my main photo op was located. It is where the massive tent and all the support equipment that goes with such an operation was located.It is where Cirque du Soleil's Kooza will happen. The size of the operation was very striking. After stopping at the security post and getting the parameters of what and where I could photograph, I was basically shooting under an umbrella as the rain was coming down at a pretty good clip. Still, as it always happens, something on your list to shoot in the future appears while you are shooting something else. This serendipity was a gondola car of scrap metal coming under the western end of the Convention Center.
Also, Wiki Commons has a national photo contest going until the end of September of historic architecture on the Department of the Interior's National Park Service's List of Historic Places.
I am thinking about entering. There are several images that I could weed out from my portfolio and submit. Something I saw last week also rang a bell that it might be a good candidate for submission so I retook the image from several angles today just for comparison purposes.
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