Pictures

A few months ago I got a new camera, and the sound of the shutter clicking when a picture is taken is so awesome that I snap tons more shots than I used to just so I can hear that sound. If it helps me with my perspective, color, lighting, and all those other things you can manipulate, so be it. Here are a few photos I've taken since coming to Austin late last week. For any of the ones on here, click the image to make it appear larger. I'll also continually update my Flickr site with new photographs, so check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/keepmusicevil/for more of Austin (as of right now the 20-25 most recently uploaded are from Austin and the rest are from Madison, Seattle, Chicago, Houston, San Francisco, etc)!

This is my favorite picture I've taken in Austin so far. I just like the yellow and the focus on the bicycle with the nonchalant bypasser walking past.


Yesterday I walked past Barton Creek where tons of people were playing in the area just outside of where the pool spring water hits the creek (the pool is closed on Thursdays until 7pm for cleaning, so this area was maybe more crowded than it would be on a typical day when more people would be inside the pool area). For the uninitiated, Barton Springs Pool is a spring-fed natural swimming pool with clear, cold water (around 68*F year-round) in Austin that's a lot of fun to swim at when it's over 100 degrees outside.


This is the sign that greets visitors to the creek area:

I guess technically no one was swimming since it's not really deep enough, but there were a lot of people in the area and I don't think that sign is much of a deterrent. (Not that it should be; let the people swim!)