Things to do in Sugar Land, Texas

[venchka]

The first day in 2010 when I had a camera in my hand and the sun shone bright. Getting acquainted with the Canon 1D-III.

 

[jan normandale]

Wayne, great shots and I really like your "Escher"
(I'm not really plugged in on the equipment front.. is this the new Canon Digital)

 

[venchka]

Thanks Jan. I'm not exactly plugged in either. Yes, the very same Canon digital camera that replaced Bubba.

 

[Bill58]

Sugarland is one of the highest per capita communities in the USA, but my recollection of it is that it's pretty boring--flat as a pancake, sprawling subdivisions w/ lots of middle class homes that pretty much all look the same and shopping centers everywhere....and boring. I doubt if that has changed since I lived in Houston 10 years ago. I lived there about 30 years.

 

[crawdiddy]

Sugarland is one of the highest per capita communities in the USA, but my recollection of it is that it's pretty boring--flat as a pancake, sprawling subdivisions w/ lots of middle class homes that pretty much all look the same and shopping centers everywhere....and boring. I doubt if that has changed since I lived in Houston 10 years ago. I lived there about 30 years.

I think Wayne's photos of Sugarland look anything but boring.

Very nice. Great color. And nice B&W also.

 

[venchka]

Thanks Dan. Sugar Land is very much an "Instant City". Grinning. They are all in color. I don't know enough to try digital B&W yet. I may stick to film for B&W. That seems right.

 

[Ducky]

I used to go to Sugarland on insurance business with Imperial Sugar. I never saw much of the town but it looks much improved since I was there last.
As I recall, The sugar mill had a bit of an odor, never decided if it was objectional or not but it paid a lot of bills in sugarland.

 

[BillBingham2]

I have a friend from years ago who lives in Sugarland. She was a big-wig at Brown&Root and her husband was a tax guy at Mobile or some oil company. I am sure they are doing very well these days.

Nice shots.

B2 (;->

 

[Al Patterson]

I know a guy I went to High School with who lives in Sugar Land, as his employer is also located there. He works in the oil services business doing engineering stuff on oil drilling equipment.

Never been there, but when I visited him in Houston, I thought I had been to a version of Philly that had been moved to hell. That's what I get for visiting in the summer...

 

[venchka]

Good grief! Don't visit Houston in the summer. Yuck!

 

[venchka]

Thank you.

I will sneak up on digital B&W. I'm still leaning toward silver for B&W.

I could use the traditional digital crutch, "This photo sucked in color so i converted it to B&W. What do you think?"

 

[venchka]

Thanks. That makes sense.

 

[Trius]

About 25 years ago my employer at the time sent a bunch of us to Houston in freakin-August. I remember when the sliding doors opened at the airport, it was like I was being hit with a wall of water.

The training seminar we attended was at one of the Galleria malls, but the company was too cheap to have us stay onsite, so we were at some motel about 4 blocks away. So we had to walk in that humidity, and right by an apartment building that was pretty much abandonded, aka a shooting gallery. One day the training went late, ending at dusk, and we took a cab. No way were we walking by the shooting gallery; at least I wasn't.

Dunno why, but I've never wanted to go back to Houston. 😛

Oh ... really nice photos, Wayne. From the sounds of things, you've effectively disguised Sugar Land. No matter where we are, there's always a way to see things that create interest.

 

[venchka]

Thanks Earl. I try.

I'm just serving my time in Houston.