Happy 2016 From Dallas

New Year is about reflecting on the past and hopes for the future. The older I get it seems to me that the reflecting list grows longer than the hopes for the future list. It is not a negative statement by any means.  It's all based in fact. What also seems to stack the deck on the reflective side is the archive of this blog. While reflecting, some of the past articles even made me laugh. My, how times change perspectives. Then, finally, if not being struck again by one of my amazing eureka points, it hit me that the hopes for the future is by design a short list. It's always going to be a short list. Peace, Hope and Joy. Three words over many, but powerful words at that. I did gleam a couple of things from the review of past January's list. Rather timely, but still in a different way that they were and are now viewed.

One,the latest tornadoes and the path of destruction and death that befell the peninsula at Lake Ray Hubbard generated my archives and brought up an article about the area that was struck hard. Bad Karma, some say. Yes, the city of Dallas sale on the sly--made to look like the voters had approved the sale when it was a legal manipulation of words that tricked a lost of voters--of Robinson Park to the city of Rowlett. That area, Dalrock and I-30 was where the most damage and the most deaths occured .The question of the landmark water tower in line of  the 13-mile on-the-ground- tornadoes for a sale of land does make a story that movies have been made from.

Another post came up about an old college professor, now deceased, that was an early mentor for me. He had written so many translation on the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, loved American Jazz, was a connaisseur of fine brandy and quoted Shelley repeatedly. The most famous of his likes could be a tribute to those that lost their lives on I-30.  

Death is the veil which 

Those who live call Life.

They sleep, and it is lifted.

Two, there were a lot of broken hearts in Arlington on New Year's Eve. There were a lot of joyous fans as well. Like a stop light, there were green hearts and red hearts. The green hearts go back to Ingham County to re-group.

A red-tailed bird ( I would not want to misrepresent, especially to those of 600mm lens, the experts in all fields. )

The last full year for Obama in the White House. He will have to fly on this old bird because the Military has announced that the new Boeing 747-800's will have to wait because of budget  restraints. Don has his own plane and helicopter, anyway. Is that The Omen? Nah, that must be the 40-year old film by that name that I'm thinking about.

edit peninsula and description 01Jan16

Final Images from White Rock

The close of 2015 is coming up quickly. With the turn in the weather and the cold setting in finally, this will most likely be my last images from the lake for 2015. For sure. It's been a good year for the goal has been to reduce the amount of medication ordered up because of the old ticker. The reports from the cardio-boss man have been good. The progress has been good because of the long cardio walks with the camera in hand, the celery sticks laced with peanut butter in the ditch, a few crackers (unsalted) for the remaining peanut butter from the two tablespoon limit and a banana. Sitting at the picnic tables at Dreyfuss Club, or up at the stone patio on the high road of Sunset Bay or one of the shelter houses overlooking the lake on the hot days of summer  has paid off health wise. 

This summer saw an early  morning sunrise in August, a couple of unreal sunsets in December and  three trips a week around the lake in between. There has been some really nice people who think a lot like me. There are a few more that would rather have me think like them. But as my old family physician, who grew up in New Orleans and is buried there today, would tell my mom and me," you listen to what people say and when they go home, you do as you damn well please."  Stress has never been a problem for me probably as a result of, and thereafter  listening to,  those lectures. Mom sat in the chair in the examining room and I sat on the paper-roll table as my doctor delivered those words, not once, but many times while growing up.

It is hoped that everyone have a safe and happy New Year 2016. Hopefully, ticker and pacemaker willing, I'll see you again in the spring. Meanwhile, enjoy the images here while I clean up the construction mess on the website in the bleakness of winter.

A river.

Two coccinella magnifica

A corporate jet on ILS Approach

Eagles at White Rock in February 2013

February 2013 Pair of Bald Eagles Fishing

February 2013 was my first sighting of the pair of bald eagles at White Rock Lake. With love for nature, I did not hold back my sightings and have talked about the eagles steadily since 2013.Contrary to what is being spread around about me misrepresenting or giving out bad information,the only reason I dug into the archive to find there images was the fact that I have seen plenty of smoke screens in my 70 years and it seems that those who hope to discredit my sighting have had  a nerve struck and they (men and women alike) feel their little grip on, and having to share their wildlife with, an ever increasing population of Metroplex nature lovers slipping out of their grasp.

Nesting Pair of Bald Eagles over White Rock Lake on February,2013

February,2013 at the Dam

Now, having said that, I can go back to enjoying the nature and wildlife of White Rock Lake.

26Dec2015: edit for punctuation clarity.

Museum of Tomorrow

While Dallas does have some noted buildings built by world famous architects, our latest architect with his second structure still under construction at present Santiago Calatrava has a masterpiece in Rio de Janiero. The Dallas City Hall and The Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center were designed by I.M. Pei. Santiago Calatrava designed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and did redesign his original design work on the Margaret McDermott Bridge currently  under construction. But this week, was the opening of Calatrava's  Magnum Opus in my opinion. It is the new Museu do Amanha (Museum of Tomorrow) in Rio de Janeiro on December 19th. The site is in the old port section of Rio and is part of a major redevelopment program in the area. I have seen the area personally on my first trip to Brazil many years ago. It is an amazing work of design and while I am proud to talk about the Arts District in Dallas and what it has to offer, I did a bit of work figuring out just how big this new Museu is. By loose calculations, the entire arts district could be placed in one third of this structure. The transformation from the old site to this new structure raises the bar for other cities in this old world if they want to compete for tomorrow because tomorrow has arrived on yet another continent of the Americas.

For those of you that want to see an image of the structure, you can search for the Museu do Amanha in Rio. Or, you can go to Alamy and enter in the search box FA1AG5 to bring up the image. I just tried it and it worked. Alamy.com  and enter FA1AG5 (That is FAone AGfive) to be clear.

For those of you who do not want to see Calatrava's non-bridge work, I have some pelicans,geese and ducks for you.

The angle is a duck having just had a drink tilting his head upward.

The pelicans can be so funny to watch.

Two migratory geese fighting. It lasted a pretty long time.

Last Minute Shopping!

Holiday Greetings Vertical Greeting Card by sam6372
Look at other Greeting Cards at zazzle.com

Our wish to you this holiday season would be this card that we made especially for you!

Some of You Have Ask

Some of you have ask about how you can view our live news feed images. First and foremost: Thank You!!  But, it's not really that difficult. So, here is an easy way to learn how to do this remembering two things.
1. There are two options. the first option will allow you to view and search the live news feed.
2. The second option allows you to view our stock images where our news feed images and stock are archived. The news feed images rotate off after 48-hours. Where do they go? They go into the submitters archive stock image portfolio, which can be searched afterwards as well.

Going to the live news feed only.

Click on anywhere within the black box with a lower case 'a' or the word 'alamy'. That opens into a new window. When it does. click on the black 'a' or inside the black box again. It opens to the alamy home page. You will see a search bar with a magnifier at the right hand side. You will also see in the search bar the words by that magnifier that says 'see images'. click that and when it opens scroll down to the bottom where it says 'see live images'. You are there!! when it opens again, start at the top of page one and scroll down. The images begin to rotate off immediately as other images are added and force the current images down to page 2 or 3 or 4 or sometimes 5 then off the rotation.


If you want to see our stock images or news feeds that are archived 

To the right of the black 'a' box is also a search bar. Above that search bar are the words: 'dallaspaparazzo.com. If you click that link on, you will by-pass the live news feed and go directly to our archived images where are nearing 1300 images at present.

	Images by dallaspaparazzo. com Enter a keyword, name or reference number:
Search all the images by dallaspaparazzo. com on Alamy

White Rock Talents

Many, many times, the winds echo my words that there is always something different happening at White Rock. Today, was no exception. When is the last time you saw a tightrope walker practice? With the weather being almost perfect for a very late fall day, here is one of those surprises.

At the same time, I have been photographing since August, the leaves of the White Rock Sycamore  trees and even finding some of the largest leaves that I have ever seen. Yesterday, another record leaf was found that topped the "then recorder holder" at 9 1/2 inches by 11 and one quarter. Yesterdays was over 14-inches by 13-inches. When it finally relaxes and the folded over tips can be measured, it will be larger, no doubt.

Here is today's finds.

Practice makes perfect

The sycamore leaves are hanging on and producing excellent displays for very late fall.