Flashback With Photography, Part II

This July I will hopefully be going to Myrtle Beach again and try to take some more memorable pictures (while in the shade). I'm dying to visit my favorite tourist spot, Brookgreen Gardens. The entire thing is outside but it's worth all that sweating to see such wonderful sculptures and lush landscaping. That isn't for several weeks so I'll continue with the main topic of this post. I have four more pictures that I wanted to post for Part II.


Back to the summer of 2002. During my trip to Texas I visited the Dallas Zoo. This was one of the most gorgeous zoos I've ever seen. The plant life was exotic and beautiful and the exhibits were very natural and picturesque. One that I particularly loved was bird habitat. It was a gloomy day but this bird paradise still looked whimsical.

Continuing with the summer of 2002. Lots of traveling for me that summer--I'd just graduated college and I had a little free time and money to spend before I had to face the world of working full time and bills. Anyway, my friend Frances got married in August of that year. I traveled to Utah again to celebrate the wonderful event. The night before the wedding Frances and I and another friend drove around Salt Lake City enjoying the sites. We stopped at this one spot and I took a picture just as the sun was setting.

Some time in the late summer or early fall of 2003 I went fishing for the first time in years. I caught two brim that day after about five hours in a paddle boat. It was hot and smelly on that pond but the scenery was pleasant enough. As we decided to call it a day I took a picture of the cloud filled sky. Well, I mentioned that it was hot that day and my camera was sitting in my bag in the heat all those hours. When I got the film developed everything had a pink hue. This picture was the only one in which the pinkness didn't look too odd.

For my last picture I'm going to go way back in time. In early 2003 I visited my old hometown of Irmo, South Carolina with my mother. We drove by our old house (which looked much smaller than I remembered) and my old elementary school. I went to an awesome school with a great library and a great art program. In 1986 we raised money for a time capsule. I was either five or six the day it was filled and sealed. The only thing I remember being put in there was a Barbie Doll. I thought it was a lame choice then and I still think that today.

That's all the flashbacking I've got. It's often said that photos without people in them are boring. I don't agree because most pictures tell a story, with or without someone smiling and waving at the camera.