Flood at Bear Creek Park

On May 2, 2004, I took some pictures at Bear Creek Park, in Houston, Texas. Most of these were taken in and around a flooded picnic area near Clay Road.


A fairly good sized segment of the internal park roadway was submerged by flood waters. The road symbols floating a couple of inches under the murky water made for some nifty effects.


A couple of closeups of a section of concrete roadway. Rushing water deposited a thin layer of silt across the rough gravel. Interesting flow patterns.


The picnic tables, isolated like manmade concrete islands in the floodwaters, were what made me stop in the first place. Makes me wonder what a theoretical future society would think of such an installation.


A detail view of a knot in a tree root. At the time, it reminded me of a caldera lake, with the moss as a dark forest growing up the slopes. Or something out of Samarost.


A shot of the sun filtered through the trees. The first image shows actual lens flare, as an accidental product of the relatively simple optics of my Olympus D-340R. The next three are courtesy of PhotoPaint. Gotta love the lens flare renderer.


This is a picture taken through my windshield at an intersection on the way out. I had to airbrush out some bug spatters here and there. I was struck by the sharp line separating the expanse of concrete from the woods beyond- "Civilization stops here." I wanted to take a second picture with a red light, but the guy in the SUV behind me didn't share my artistic vision.


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