Children's Aquarium at Fair Park...

Here's some shots of the newly re-modeled and re-named "Children's Aquarium at Fair Park", Dallas, Texas.

The new Seahorse fountain welcomes visitors...

Sunlight beams in through the front door as guestcheck out the touch tank...    

Bright orange cold water Sea Anemones are dominant in the Wolf Eel exhibit...

A sea star clings to the glass...

 Nearshore exhibits lead to Offshore exhibits in the salt water end of the aquarium...

Guest check out the White Alligators at the fresh water end of the aquarium...

...not sure what he's up to here, but this is what they were looking at...

The new addition at the back of the circa 1934 art deco building houses the new large Shark tank and "Stingray Bay" touch tank exhibits...

Come down to Fair Park and check out the new diggs!!...ask for Sharky :)

Come down to Fair Park and

Dallas Skyline...

I found a very cool place overlooking downtown Dallas the other evening headed home from the aquarium...

Coral Close-up...

This macro shot of coral polyps from 2006 is still one of my favorite shots.

Featured in my underwater photography book,

"Cozumel, Below" available at http://www.blurb.com/

Cowboy's Stadium, Arlington, Texas...Home of Super Bowl XLV...

...so the Dallas Cowboy's 2 most hated Nemesis's are the one's coming to

Arlington for North Texas' very first Super Bowl.

This actually plays into my hands.

Since I don't really care who wins the game,

 I can just sit back and enjoy it for the pure pleasure of watching football,

without all the stress involved in hoping "my team" wins.

View of Cowboy's Stadium from the Arlington Convention Center.

Sea birds invade Dallas!!

..ok, not really. Most people don't realize that a lot of sea birds are found almost anywhere that water can

be found. That's why they are technically not "Sea"Gulls, just Gulls.

I shot this bird coming in for a landing at Bachman Lake on the north side of Love Field airport.

We even have Pelicans here in North Texas, but as of yet, they have been elusive to my lens...stay tuned...

Fair Park Sunset...

...as usual, down at Fair Park shooting on the backside

of the Cotton Bowl, when I looked up and saw this

fantastic sunset radiating out over the Esplanade...

Cotton Bowl, Fair Park, Dallas, Texas...

...I find it sad that the Cotton Bowl Game is no longer played at the Cotton Bowl Stadium.

                                      

Pic of the day...Feelin' crabby?

It is the dead of winter and a young man's thoughts turn to...the Caribbean of course!

Here's a shot of a King Crab from 2009 taken on Yucab Wall dive site, Cozumel, Mexico...

Texas Museum of Automotive History

Just before Christmas, I was down at Fair Park, (what a shock), making some shots with the new lens.

 I noticed that the Grand Place building had been tuned into an automobile museum,

the "Texas Museum of Automotive History" to be precise.

I was shooting some exterior shots, when the General Manager, Wilbert Grinsven, came out and introduced himself and invited me in to shoot some interior pics of the museum.

Lots of super cool rides from very early cars to modern day race cars, a very nice collection. Many of which had been sitting in private owner's garages and are now on display for the public.

Here's a small sample of the shoot...

Thanks again to Wilbert for letting me come in and have a go at it...