Went to Pioneer Plaza by the Convention Center today

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Actually not a bad place to shoot, several of the bronze cowboys on horseback in the scultpure in the Plaza along with a couple dozen bronze longhorns-all about 120% or so of life size. You have City Hall Plaza just a couple blocks away and also the old cemetary. BTW parking meters there are free on Sundays.

May be worth while on doing a TPF Dallas/Metroplex meet and shoot one sunday soon. Today there were a lot of people climbing all over the statues so couldn't get some shots that I wanted to shoot, waited at least 5 minutes for one family with kids to step away from one of the cattledrivers was just ready to shoot and this other group ran up-gave me about 10 seconds to get a shot off without them in it.

So a cold day would be more condusive to shooting than a nice warm day.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

I did this purposefully as a sillouette, this was the one that I had to wait for the people to climb off of the statue so I had to compose in advance and then sneak the shot in.

[brad]

Great idea.. I shot this place a couple years ago.. December 30, I think... there are cool angles and such to shoot down there. Would be an interesting group shoot.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

There are some great lighting posibilities late in the afternoon right now and with no leaves on the trees it offers a bit more light coming in. BUT THERE MUST HAVE BEEN 100+ People there today from 4:00-5:15 or so.

[dewaun]

Since I work only a few blocks away...I have really enjoyed walking down and snapping some photos over my lunch break.

Here's a few images that I've taken recently:
http://voices.dewaun.us/photoblog/in...p?showimage=60
http://voices.dewaun.us/photoblog/in...p?showimage=69
http://voices.dewaun.us/photoblog/in...p?showimage=74
http://voices.dewaun.us/photoblog/in...p?showimage=76

I also took a photo of the old graveyard:
http://voices.dewaun.us/photoblog/in...p?showimage=72

[texaswolflady]

Kinda puts me in the mind of Frederic Remington.........I love his work.

[DallasNikonian]

Great place to shoot however it does get very busy. I recommend going very early in the morning. The cemetery is a great place as well.

[engstrom]

DEM, I really like that 2nd picture. If you could have bracketed the shot to get a sky that wasn't blown and then combined the two it would have been perfect! I think you're right - a TPF get together there would be fun.

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Also you are just a few blocks away from Dealey Plaza and then the west end.
Anybody interested in this Sunday?