dakota's steakhouse

Underneath the streets in Dallas exists Dakota's steakhouse, an elevator shaft in the middle of the street leads down into this exquisite hideaway for dining and drinking. Monet celebrated her 40th birthday there recently as well as her and her husband's 11th anniversary. Happy b-day and anniversary to them! Here are a few stills taken at the restaurant before they arrived. Decor compliments of Monet herself.

another round

Here's a quick preview of an event I shot at the Dakota Steakhouse in downtown Dallas. More to come soon.

spin

For the next few posts, howzabout I just let the images speak for themselves, which is short for: I don't feel like writing. The pic below taken at Zubar in Dallas. Props to the dancers there. The good ones I mean...

the birds

So I dug these up from a trip to Dallas to see the band Ludo play a little while back. Forgot all about these and once I viewed them on the big screen (not the back of my camera) I thought these were pretty cool. I played with the colors in photoshop a little bit to give them an extra something.

thanksgiving square

Recently I took a trip to Dallas via TRE (Trinity Railway Express), a train that commutes between Dallas and Fort Worth. We were walking around down town when we came upon the Thanksgiving Square and the Chapel of Thanksgiving. I call it the snow cone building. So, I thought it appropriate to post these pictures for the holiday! I hope every one's Thanksgiving was filled with food, family, and friends.

"A small and quiet place of prayer and meditation for all people. It manages, in its circular form, to soften the downtown landscape of tall, angular buildings in which it is nestled, and in effect, brings the Chapel into prominence despite its comparatively smaller size."

Here is the view of the ceiling from inside the chapel...and really, this photograph doesn't do it much justice.

alice in dallas

This photograph of downtown Dallas taken in the reflection of another building may look doctored up, but it's really not. It's actually very close to the original photograph, I simply cropped the picture to minimize some of the greenery in front of the windows and then saturated the colors already in the buildings. The result is this really cool looking art piece. I love it!