Re: PF galery on May 1, 2010

[Guy Glorieux <guy.glorieux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I might have made a better statement if I had not mentionned that this was Houston and left it as an unspecified city.  Something for me to thing about in the future when pondering over the title of a print...

G.

2010/5/2 Roger Eichhorn <eichhorn@xxxxxx>

I felt the same way when I moved to Houston from Lexington, Kentucky in 1982.  Since then I've gotten used to it and the traffic jams I had to negotiate in the 80s are not nearly so bad now -- unless there's an accident!  There's a lot to see and do here, the people are warm and friendly and there are many great restaurants.  Guy's photo captures the downtown area neatly, but it could have been taken in a half dozen other spots around town.

Roger

On 1 May 2010, at 9:30 AM, Guy Glorieux wrote:

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> 2010/5/1 John Palcewski <palcewski@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Guy Glorieux - Three colors   That's Houston, all right.  A cold,
> lifeless mass of steel and glass in downtown, surrounded by a maze of
> highways and bumper to bumper traffic.   I'm projecting, of course.
> Bad, painful things happened to me in Houston a long time ago.   And I
> remember those skyscrapers.  Nice image, but...Ugh!  Others will
> doubtless have a different reaction.
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> Thanks John,
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> I can't disagree with your statement...  I was there for the biennal FotoFest event and I was struck that there are absolutely no pedestrians on the sidewalks...  Just high rise buildings and cars...
> But there is something of strange beauty in all this.
> In fact, I put together a small gallery of images I made of this "mass of steel and glass" for those who might be interested.  It shows that this is not a world for people!
> http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=196775&id=630794922
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> Guy
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Roger Eichhorn
Professor Emeritus
University of Houston
eichhorn@xxxxxx