Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/01/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] need help on place to visit in Houston, TX
From: "Don Dory" <dorysrus@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 21:16:27 -0500
References: <F906rXmBgStIMNqS6MT0001308a@hotmail.com>

Oliver, Houston is a magical place with lots, and I mean lots of traffic.

Architecture:  Houston has as many signature buildings in its downtown
district as any city.  Start with the Pennzoil building, then try the
Republic Bank Building, then scoot over to the Transco Tower in the Galleria
district.  You can spend days in the downtown area working with the angles,
the plaza sculptures, the churches near Sam Houston park NWof downtown  next
to the high rises.

Industrial images:  Use a local map and spend some time around the ship
channel.  From the ship channel east to New Orleans probably half the
petrochemicals in the US are stored, cracked, created, or refined.  At the
far edge of La Porte there is a very large semi accessible container port.

Art(Modern) In the Medical District you can find a very well done exhibit
centered on Mark Rothko.  There is also a nice planetarium there.

Coast.  From Galveston up the ship channel until it gets Industrialized
there is lots of opportunity to record the shrimping industry and other
fishing enterprises. The area around Kemah is probably the easiest to
navigate.  This includes fish markets, docks where the boats unload, etc.
In the early eighties this was an ugly place as many Vietnamese settled in
to the fishing business displacing the previous groups.

NASA in Clear Lake City.

Near original saw grass lowlands near the San Jacinto Battleground.

Ima Hogg's house if you like estates.

What you won't find a lot of is "street activity"  Houston is hot and humid.
It is not nick-named the "Swamp" for nothing.  Any street activity is going
to be in the Montrose district, and the area just north of the city of West
University.

Don Dory
dorysrus@mindspring.com

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