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.

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

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!

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 …

The customer area — including cushy couches for customers to sit on while they wait for their prescriptions to be filled.

Ace on-duty and empty medicine bottles …

Randy filling a prescription and a close up of some interesting pills (Melinda dubbed these ‘life preservers’)

Thanks Randy & Melinda for hosting me for the weekend and allowing me to capture The Cross Pharmacy

Don’t forget to visit tomorrow … donation number three for the Comments for Charity from The Roadtrip 2009 entries will be posted.

Because a few of you have asked about fall availability in order to figure out when you want to schedule your session, I’m posting the number of portraiture sessions I can work into the current schedule from now through the holiday cutoff deadline of November 15th — that is, without overloading myself as I’m a one-girl operation here! I’ve also posted this list on the contact page as well as the services & investment pages — I’ll update it weekly as needed. So if you’re procrastinating, maybe this will be the motivation needed to schedule ASAP

2009 Availability –the following is a list of how many more total portraiture sessions CMP is able to accommodate from August – November.
August: 1 more session
September: 3 more sessions
October: 5 more sessions
November: 5 more sessions

After November 15th, session availability is ‘better’; however, sessions scheduled after this date will not have online galleries before the holiday ordering cutoffs to receive orders before Christmas.

… at an abandoned gas station …

 
… another view of the bridge from last Thursday …

Just a quick reminder, CMP is closed August 6-10 while I’m out of state — all correspondence (voicemails and emails) will be responded to once I arrive home. Thanks for your patience and understanding!

I love the ‘backseat’ of this car! I edited from the full color version to this to give it a ‘Dust Bowl’ feel Makes me think back to reading The Grapes of Wrath in high school …

… a few more will be appearing tomorrow!

Looks a little less spooky when you photograph it this way …

In other news … today through Monday, CMP is closed — I’ll be headed out of state in the early AM and won’t be back until sometime on Monday. If you need to reach me during this time period, please use the contact link under Client Info on the menu above — any voicemails received will be returned sometime next week as well.

For the curious, yes, plenty of photographs of the travel and people variety to come

Check back tomorrow for ‘How To Wednesday: Getting Started Part II’ where I’ll discuss how to select the right DSLR for your photographic needs and desires.