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TripleBlack
05-03-2012, 6:23pm
About an hour and a half from the DFW area someone, though nobody seems to know who, spend much time and effort creating some road side art. It's far enough from DFW to be fairly dark and I had hopes of catching the Milky Way in some of the shots. That didn't happen; either it wasn't dark (late?) enough, or there was to much dust in the air.

All were taken with a 7d and a Tokina 11-16 2.8 lens. Exposure was ~30 seconds with an ISO of 800 or 1600 at f2.8 except the first shot which was a -2/0/+2 HDR (F8/ISO 100 aperture priority). My son went with me and we teamed up painting the sculptures with small flashlights during the exposures.

Note the "legs" on the "bug".

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/TripleBlackxTwo/SaintJoSculptures1024-.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/TripleBlackxTwo/SaintJoSculptures1024-9542.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/TripleBlackxTwo/SaintJoSculptures1024-9539.jpg

The "Moonflowers" were made from old radial engines of some sort. Wish I'd seen the "Flower" contest... I'd have entered this. :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/TripleBlackxTwo/SaintJoSculptures1024-9531.jpg

Critiques welcome....
Grey Ghost
05-03-2012, 6:33pm
Stunning ! The second one would be my favorite :seasix: The radial engine flowers is a very cool concept !
Defib1961
05-03-2012, 8:43pm
Which way from DFW? That is just really cool. :seasix:
TripleBlack
05-03-2012, 9:37pm
Stunning ! The second one would be my favorite :seasix: The radial engine flowers is a very cool concept !

Thanks! Yeah, I love the flowers. There was a fifth one just out of the frame to the left. The "telephone cacti" must have been 35 or 40 feet tall. There were two other "sculptures". This one was cool at the right angle but it was hard to "paint". The other was just three telephone poll arranged to look like an airplane. Cool, but didn't make a very interesting photo.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/TripleBlackxTwo/SaintJoSculptures1024-9556.jpg

Which way from DFW? That is just really cool. :seasix:

They are in a field just out side of Saint Jo, which is west of Gainsville about 30 miles or so (past Muenster) on 82. Intersection of FM 677 and FM 3206.