New, looking for locations in DFW

[OpticalPrime]

hi everyone, I did a search but I was wondering if there is a long going thread with just locations in it? Im just an amateur, but looking for some good places to take some pictures. I live in Mansfield so anything near DFW is ok...

I was hoping in a perfect world there would be a long thread with great photo locations... if not maybe we should start one.. Im looking for everything from skylines to whatever... thanks ahead of time

[blonboy]

Hey 00bolt..........take a look at this page ->
http://www.texasphotoforum.com/forum/vbgooglemaphse.php

See if that helps......

[Stephen H]

When you click on the DFW forum, note the separate forum at top with a number of locations.

[BigBlueDodge]

My main gripe about DFW is that it's just not a very photogenic city. I travel quite extensively for my job, and many places I go to have all kinds of things to photograph. Right now I'm traveling heavily to Vancouver Canada, and as soon as you step off the airplane you can start taking pictures. There's so much to see.

I guess its because I'm a life long Fort Worth'er and not appreciating the little places, but the Botanica Gardens and Zoo gets pretty old after a while, lol :)

[Stephen H]

The basic theory behind "Travel Photography" is that what is different is somehow better. So you go to Amsterdam, say, and here's all these colorful houses in a row, and you've got to shoot 'em. Meanwhile, the people that live there walk right past them every day saying "I wish there was someting interesting to shoot here...".

Meanwhile, I just noticed coming north on 635 right north of Town East Blvd, you can see this restaurant that has this huge avocado and stuff painted so that the avocado is right at the corner. Stand someone there, and voila! Your picture.

And then there's that old grain elevator that I drive past twice a day. It looks so cool in the evening sun, but the perfect place to shoot it is from the freeway, and that's hard to do.

[AlanSmith]

Not to mention the really cool glass building with the reflection of the American flag that I often see a sunrise refelcted in that I drive by each day. (but again there is that whole taking picture from freeway. Although I think it might work from the DART station....)

--Alan
P.S. Thanks for the reminder that there are cool images all around us.