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I haven't been posting much to Flickr lately, preferring to go with my blog instead. For info on this image, click here.

I spent a few hours downtown Friday evening photographing the sights of the 2011 Republic of Texas Rally. Don't know how many motorcycles were there, but it was in the thousands. I caught this pair heading down 6th Street a little before the big parade began.

On our way to Turkey, we passed thru Chicago O'Hare airport. While moving between terminals, we passed thru this corridor; I couldn't resist the lights and reflections. HDR from 3 exposures.

While 6th Street gets most of the attention as a place to unwind, let loose, or generally celebrate, there is another ‘entertainment’ district in downtown Austin. Known as the Warehouse District, it’s centered on 4th Street, east of Congress Avenue. Restaurants, clubs, and bars offer plenty of opportunity for an enjoyable evening, and also offer opportunities for photographers in the early morning hours.

I wish I could say the streets were wet from a recent rain, but unfortunately our drought continues, and wildfires have drawn dangerously close to the city. I happened along just after city crews had gone through, doing their morning street cleaning.

This is an HDR image created by merging and tone mapping 9 bracketed exposures (-5 to +3 EV) in Photomatix Pro. The image was then post-processed in PSE 7 using Nik Color Efex Pro.

I spent part of the morning shooting at the old Seaholm Power Plant with several friends (Dave WIlson, Alex Suarez, Andy Atmtx, Stephen Ng, Mike Connell, and Michael Tuuk). Here's one of the images captured there, taken down in the lower level of the plant. It was a bit darker than how it appears in this photo.