After a busy holiday season, I finally had a weekend to myself, and so decided to get out and do some photo taking. I opted to go downtown, and they still had the Christmas decorations up. Although I don’t typically obsess over Christmas decorations, I did appreciate how it dressed up the typical scenes. I did a little walk from Buffalo Bayou east into downtown, and then south to City Hall and back.
As a weekend warrior, I typically don’t let the weather dissuade me from going out. This cool January morning had scattered showers rolling through all morning. Fortunately, I was prepared, and had a great time shooting. This was my first time at this particular location, and the blue hour light and clouds with the wet streets did make for a cool, moody scene.
Houston has a beautiful skyline, in my opinion. I really enjoyed this view with the tall skyscrapers surrounding the city hall, which was fortunately lit in blue to match the whole scene. Below is taken from the same perspective but I zoomed in to focus on the town hall with the skyscrapers providing a backdrop.
The previous photos are a bit more typical view of downtown, but I moved to get a view of the northern skyscrapers. This was not as photogenic with this perspective.
