Some pics from where I live

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I just got a new digital camera and went walking around the neighborhood Saturday testing it out. I'm loving it so far.

The first one is taken to the left of our house from the street below the one I live on, not too far past the end of my street, which turns into a steep hill above the lake. The other two are from a park about 10 minutes walk from my house to the right. The lake kind of horseshoes to the rear of the house.

I got a Fujifilm FinePix s5100 4mp with a 10x optical zoom. It's not very high end, but I'm impressed with it, especially for the price ($320). These pics have been resized and compressed a lot, but they still look pretty good.

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This one is at the same park. That's my son way off in the background, and his friend Mikk closer up. Just testing out the shadow detail, silhouette sharpness, depth of field and stuff.

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Central Texas looks a lot nicer than Costal Texas =(

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Yeah it does, I use to live in Allen texas and while it was nice, it didn't look half as beautiful as that.

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Central Texas looks a lot nicer than Costal Texas =(

Just your neck of the coast. South Padre is really nice. I live in the tubing capital of the world; lots of rivers all around. Schlitterbahn is near by (the original one). Heh, I worked there as a life guard when I was a kid. I've been meaning to put up more pics, but I'm lazy.

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My 'neck of the coast' has petrolium distillation towers belching blue and red flames into orange skies, the water meets the land and swirls in oily colors of pink, green and blue, like the surface of a soap bubble, while beneath, the brackish sluddgy waters have long since choked all life from it. The flat landscape is barren and featurless while Egrets, looking sickly and lame, wade in thin marshes around discarded biohazzard containers. The broad-prowed barges slip these crude waters and dock near tall rusty cranes and the lights from Houstons skyscrapers drown out the stars, all the ones that the smoke hadn't obscured at least. The roaming beakon atop Williams Tower scans the skies, like some metorpolitan Barad-Dur amongst this filthy landscape of smog, bad traffic and world class sports facilities.

BTW: One of those pics looks like the Frio River... is it? The Frio is very pretty.