Occasional Traveler

What I love about DSLRs is it’s ability to take a clear photo at night and nicely illuminate the subject (with, of course, the use of a tripod).

This image has not been lomo-ized (ha, I made up a word…or did I?).   My biggest complaint about my point-and-shoot has always been about the amount of noise in my low-light photos so, this is a huge improvement!!

Haha, I realized I’ve shown mostly water pictures and none of the actual boardwalk.  Soo, here’s the view we got as we were approaching the boardwalk from the parking lot.

We didn’t go on any of the Kemah Boardwalk amuseument rides– kinda pricey anyway, but there were lotta people with their kids enjoyingthe rides!  Oh yea, and there’s a wooden rollar coaster.  I’ve been on a wooden rollar coaster once.  I sat in the front with my friend Micah and I was TERRIFIED.  Haven’t been on another one since, haha.

Anyway,  as you can see, it’s very amusement park-ish and touristy.  The palm trees amuse me…like we’re in Florida or something, haha.

This is one of the first shots I took once I set up my tripod.  The colors turned out pretty cool, right?

I’m not even sure exactly where all the colorful lights are from, haha.  It was still bright outside, but I was taking a shot of the area under a raised area of the docks.  Probably another restaurant.

You see the handrail in the back?  That’s another one of the many restaurants on the boardwalk.  I hear the restaurants on the boardwalk are generally average and nothing spectacular, but I guess that’s not terribly shocking.  We eventually ate at one of these restaurants, which I’ll eventually write about on my foodblog (just moved it to wordpress!).

I have no idea who these people are but they sure looked like they were enjoying themselves!  They were fishing pretty close to the boardwalk and while they did seem to catch some fish, I enjoyed watching the fish that jumped out of the water by themselves (so did the seagulls)!

Doesn’t the water look nice?  I love the deep blue of the water!

When I think boardwalks, I think ferris wheels. I admit, I’ve only been to 2 boardwalks– Santa Monica and Kemah, but that’s what I remember, so here it is:

Here’s the original.  Again, used picnik.com =)

People say that Kemah has become too touristy ever since the boardwalk was built but  I’ve never seen Kemah pre-boardwalk so I can’t really say.  Ya know what though?  I don’t care!

Sure, it doesn’t show the “culture” of the area, but it’s a nice place to go hang out, take kids (I don’t have any, but it seemed popular!), and watch boats!  Plus, it puts some much-needed cash flow to the area!

In high school, I was lucky enough to learn the joys of sailing.  It’s been ages since I’ve been sailing but everytime I see a sailboat, I reminisce about spending lazy Saturdays out on the lake, feeling my worries float away with the breeze.

These memories came back when M and I spent our Sunday afternoon at Kemah Boardwalk.  It was incredibly hot but oh, how I enjoyed watching the boats sail by!  This one in particular with red sails caught my attention.

Ahhh…doesn’t that look fun?  Here’s a picture of the entire sailboat. Oh yes, FYI, I used picnik.com for the lomography effect.  It’s fun and it’s free!  (Here’s the original.)

I’ve got some more pictures from Kemah that I’ll post in the next few entries. =)