Cityscapes: AUSTIN

Cityscapes: AUSTIN

This is the latest city series, and includes images primarily from what I refer to as “my little bubble” of Austin. Before SXSW was canceled by the City of Austin and the Pandemic Shelter-At-Home order was issued, I spent most weekdays catching the CapMetro Express Bus and commuting into the heart of downtown Austin. I’d walk down Bowie, past the City of Austin Seaholm Power Plant (which always struck me as a setting and design right out of the best Marvel or DC Comic storyboard), and down Electric Drive. I walked under an old railroad bridge, past the public art installation of an oversized dining room table with a faux tablecloth surrounded by magical street lamps (“Open Room Austin”), an electric charging booth, a dog park, Epoche Coffee, and finally across the Plfuger Pedestrian & Bicycle Bridge which spans the Colorado River and connects the trail system along Lady Bird Lake. The ZACH Theatre campus, complete with its Rain Garden at the corner of Lamar & Riverside, awaited me. Adventures and all-hours-of-the-day walks along this route and in the surrounding areas offered up many photographic opportunities, which I continue to seek out.