Christina McCall Photography | Athens Canton Kaufman and Tyler Texas Family, Children, and Senior Portraiture Photography

Last fall I took several short roadtrips around central Texas, exploring small towns and photographing all things from a previous era … this sign and the car below were two of the many I found. Here’s hoping more small towns preserve the vintage artifacts from that bygone era …

I was looking back though my external hard drives for another image when I came across the original version of the two below. So I figured it was time to dust it off and share the color enhanced and black/white versions … because I just can’t decide which one I like more.

Union Pacific Train Engine at the Museum of the American Railroad at Fair Park, Dallas, Texas (soon to be moving to Frisco, Texas) — taken August 2007.

For someone who wasn’t a fan of the color red as a child, I seemed to have embraced it as an adult …

Yes, if it wasn’t so impractical for a country girl like me, I’d one of one these in either red or tiffany blue … or maybe both …

Love that the tractor tires are cherries …

Images captured on Cherry Street in Tulsa — August 2009

Many moons ago (aka my junior year of high school), a classmate mentioned one day in our Spanish III class if the beauty of a campus was the deciding factor in where she’d attended for her undergraduate studies, it would be Southwestern University. Curiosity got me, but knowing it was a private university, my practical side won out and I looked up the tuition costs before viewing the images of the campus. Needless to say, my budget (or lack thereof) won out over beauty, sight unseen.

Zoom forward five years later, on the way back from a work conference in Austin, I detoured at the Georgetown exit to grab lunch. The above story completely forgotten, I took the exit for the university knowing there’d be some sort of fast food option nearby. I passed the major places near the interstate and made my way down to the campus. The story from my classmate was recalled as I drove around the campus, wishing that the university I attended just had SU’s architecture and history. That wasn’t my last trip to Georgetown … as it has become one of my favorite towns in Texas … but with only point and shoot cameras in my ownership on a few future stops, I was determined once I got a DSLR I’d be back to photograph all the details and views.

Last fall, I belatedly made good on that plan. I made a day trip down to Georgetown just before the majority of the holiday decor went out to photograph both the historic downtown area as well as the campus of Southwestern University. While these images have been marked as ‘friends & family’ over on my flickr account for the past ten months, I thought I’d finally get around to sharing some of them here …

At one of the city parks where I went to enjoy my lunch I encountered a flock of geese …

See what I mean about detail! Southwestern University campus …

The zoomed out shot … Southwestern University campus …

Just off the downtown square …

A cafe on the square … I love the colors!

Since its been a busy week for me –between working on awesome samples to feature here, wrapping up the edits on Randy & Melinda’s portraits, administrative stuff that’s no fun whatsoever, as well as all the report writing I’ve done this week at my day job, I scanned through the archives for something already edited to share tonight. After a good 55 + hours of staring at a computer this week, including my ‘night off’ last night, I’m taking tonight off from business stuff! So enjoy a few images from the archives (that I don’t recall blogging!) and have a great weekend! By the way, don’t forget to check back on Monday to see the announcement for the winner of the Christmas in August Family Portraiture Giveaway!

From behind the bar at the general store in Luckenbach, Texas … December 2008. Showed up around 8 something one Sunday morning. Yes. 8 something AM. On a Sunday. They’d just opened, no one else was around, so we had the entire store and bar to ourselves. Bar wasn’t open yet. So me and Robby had a blast photographing all the details, inhailing the woodsy-smokey smell from the cast iron stove in the store area, and browsing all the knickknacks you can purchase. No Waylon, Willie, or the boys though. And no, I’m not apologizing if you now have a certain song about this place stuck in your head, cause its repeating itself in mine

An old hospital in Fredericksburg — its now a restaurant or shop (can’t recall, its been nine months nearly!)

From an alley near downtown Tyler …