Experimenting

I played around with one of my pictures from the Photo Walk. This is the Griffith home on 1st street. Built mid 19th century. I normally go for the straight point, shoot, upload and post. I like the way this turned out, maybe with some practice I could get good at.



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Scott Kelby has a contest that just started. Shoot on the sidelines with Scott and Mike. The winner gets to roam the sidelines of a Florida State football game. It's a chance of a lifetime for one amateur sports photographer, I am not even good enough to be called an amateur. I will settle for the chance to take pictures of a Terrell Tiger game from the sidelines.

By now everyone has seen Jill and Kevin's big day. It has over 15 million hits on you tube. Check out this spoof, it's Jill and Kevin's last day, their divorce dance. The creators said its all made in fun.

September 26th Terrell, Texas will honor home town success Jamie Foxx. I will have more details tomorrow.

Terrell City Council meeting tonight at 7pm. Lets see how many people show up that are always complaining about something. Probably the same as usual-zero.

Photo deadline-Terrell Photo Walk

11:00PM local time is the deadline for uploading photos to the Worldwide Photo Walk. You can upload two photos, make sure they are your best. These are the shots that I will choose from to represent Terrell in the worldwide contest.

Think he is kidding? Terrell Photo Walk

I will finish up my photos from the photo walk with Skywatch tomorrow.



If you haven't visited the Terrell Photo Walk Flickr site, you are missing out on some great photographs. All of the photos posted on Flickr are property of the photographer, please do not use them without permission or a release.......or else.

The story that ran in Tuesdays print Tribune was posted online yesterday afternoon. You can read the entire story here.

Since I was the walk leader, I have to pick one photo from all of the photographers selections to submit to the worldwide contest. I have quite a few favorites, so it's going to be a hard decision. Here is a link to last years winner and the 10 finalists.

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Dr. L.E. Griffth home-Terrell Photowalk

For me one of the highlights of the Photowalk was to be able to walk the grounds of the Dr. L. E. Griffith home on 1st Street. Davis Griffith-Cox welcomed the photographers onto the grounds and answered any questions we had about his family or the home that was built in the mid 1800's.



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Other photos from the grounds can be found at the Terrell Flickr Photowalk page. The Flickr page is a place for all of the Terrell photowalkers to upload their best shots from all over Terrell. We have a great collection so far from 14 walkers, check it out.

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Faces in the crowd-Terrell Photo Walk 2009

We had 28 shooters turn out for the photo walk in Terrell yesterday. It was fun, and turned out a lot better than I had imagined. We walked down Moore Ave. and then went over to the Griffith homeplace. I met some great photographers and got a lot of tips. I will share my favorite photos over the next few days. I took more of the other shooters than of Terrell.

The Terrell Photo Walk was one of 900 Scott Kelby's second annual worldwide photo walks that took place yesterday.

Visit the Terrell Photo Walk Flickr page for some great shots of Terrell by some awesome photographers.





I would guess we had half people from Terrell and half visitors. We had some kids on the walk working on a Boy Scout badge, which was pretty neat.

These shots were taken on the corner of Moore Ave. and Catherine at the old 1st National Bank building.

I want to thank the City of Terrell Marketing Director Lynnette Nadeau, Susan Roberts, who hosted us Saturday morning and Davis Griffith-Cox, who opened up the grounds to the Griffith family homeplace. I look forward to the 2010 walk.

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Griffith Homeplace outbuilding

This is a small outbuilding behind this house. During the summer its hidden by ivy. Here is the text of a small sign posted on the fence.

While mistakenly referred to as the "Midgets' House", this historic Victorian structure is typical of SERVANTS QUARTERS and dependencies on this property which helped keep daily chores as well as servants out of the main house. Here activities typically would include laundering, cooking, canning and pickeling, smoking and curing meat, sewing, home shoe repair, saddlery, minor household repairs, storage of seed and garden equipment, etc.: evidence that many 19c. households were remarkably self-sufficient.
Often overtly pretentious on the Exterior, to impress visitors, these outbuildings were raw, barren and crudely finished on the inside, frequently without interior walls and much like a stage set; and they were seldom frequented by other than domestic help.
When young men of the family were quartered separately as a step toward ultimate independence, such houses were often referred to as garconierres.
Records indicate that the DR. L.E.GRIFFITH HOMEPLACE, had at least eight outbuildings on this historic landmark property.

Dr. L. E. Griffith Homeplace

One of the oldest homes in Kaufman County. This home was built between 1853 and 1873 before Terrell was incorporated.