RWB Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Hi. I am a blogger who has undertaken a project to ride along every single street in Houston and vicinity, with camera in hand. My MO is to xerox a section of the Key Map, carefully ride along every accessible street and hike/bike path, taking note of anything that interests me, then write up the trip in a little photo-illustrated narrative, which I put up on my blog, http://robertwboyd.blogspot.com/ . I've recently been posting about my rides down in the Houston Mod forum, because I tend to take a lot of photos of modern and post-modern structures. But that is not my only interest. What I am really trying to do is uincover interesting and/or beautiful sites and sights that are off the beaten path in Houston. I suspect everyone here recognizes that any city contains many fascinating, fairly unknown nooks and crannies. I want to discover them all in Houston! It's not really a project I expect to finish, but it's a nice hobby. Anyway, since I do take a lot of photos as I ride, I felt that some of the readers of this forum might enjoy these blog posts. Below are a few of the photos I've taken on these rides. Hope you enjoy them. A house built in 1939 in Spring Valley. A pueblo revival house in Hilshire Village. A lawn sculpture in Piney Point Village. A faux bunkhouse in Piney Point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jax Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Cool project! I look forward to seeing more photos! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flipper Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Great stuff as usual.I was waiting for the pic of the cedarspur house. I knew you'd like that one. You also rode past my current project today. I'm one of those lucky one's on a street coming off of Voss.keep it up,flipper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdude Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 That's quite an ambitious project! Good luck. Good photos too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWB Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 You also rode past my current project today. I'm one of those lucky one's on a street coming off of Voss.Your current project? Are you a builder? I saw a lot of new houses (and some remodellings) in the works in that neighborhood. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flipper Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Your current project? Are you a builder? I saw a lot of new houses (and some remodellings) in the works in that neighborhood.I have a remodel going on Burkhart.flipper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWB Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 That's quite an ambitious project! Good luck. Good photos too!Thanks. I don't want anyone sitting around thinking I'm going to finish this thing any time soon (or ever, really). It's such a big project that it is effectively endless. As such, it becomes just an ongoing hobby for me--a way to keep me on the streets, so to speak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyphen Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 Echoing the others.... very neat project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted January 27, 2008 Share Posted January 27, 2008 excellent pictures, I particularly am fond of the lawn art. Do you eventually plan on making the photos searchable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWB Posted January 27, 2008 Author Share Posted January 27, 2008 excellent pictures, I particularly am fond of the lawn art. Do you eventually plan on making the photos searchable?I wouldn't know where to start, to be honest. I don't think of myself as a photographer in any artistic sense of the word. They are all in my blog in blog entries that represent different rides through different parts of town, and those blog entires are labeled by the part of town they describe, so that should help if someone is looking for photos of Hunter's Creek or Charnwood or whereever. (www.robertwboyd.blogspot.com) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Hizzy! Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 For whatever reason, I really like the Piney Point "bunkhouse". The cactus sitting in front is unique as well. I wonder how they keep it alive with all the moisture here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWB Posted January 28, 2008 Author Share Posted January 28, 2008 For whatever reason, I really like the Piney Point "bunkhouse". The cactus sitting in front is unique as well. I wonder how they keep it alive with all the moisture here.Heh heh. They keep it alive by virtue of its all-metal composition. It's not a real cactus, but a metal sculpture of one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyphen Posted January 28, 2008 Share Posted January 28, 2008 I wouldn't know where to start, to be honest. I don't think of myself as a photographer in any artistic sense of the word. They are all in my blog in blog entries that represent different rides through different parts of town, and those blog entires are labeled by the part of town they describe, so that should help if someone is looking for photos of Hunter's Creek or Charnwood or whereever. (www.robertwboyd.blogspot.com)Yeah, I was wondering this, too. I had a hard time finding them in your blog without going back through your archives. Can't you make a tag for "photos" or "bike tour" or something like that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWB Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 Yeah, I was wondering this, too. I had a hard time finding them in your blog without going back through your archives. Can't you make a tag for "photos" or "bike tour" or something like that?I do have the blog posts labeled "Houston Streets", so you can see them all at http://robertwboyd.blogspot.com/search/lab...uston%20StreetsI do have non-travelogue entries under that heading, but mostly the Houston Streets posts deal with my rides throgh various neighborhoods.I hope this helps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyphen Posted January 29, 2008 Share Posted January 29, 2008 I do have the blog posts labeled "Houston Streets", so you can see them all at http://robertwboyd.blogspot.com/search/lab...uston%20StreetsI do have non-travelogue entries under that heading, but mostly the Houston Streets posts deal with my rides throgh various neighborhoods.I hope this helps!Oh, okay, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWB Posted January 29, 2008 Author Share Posted January 29, 2008 Oh, okay, thanks!You've given me something to think about, so I've decided to add more labels. I'm emulating the guys over at Swamplot.com (Houston's deeply amusing real estate blog--my favorite Houston-area blog) and adding zip-code tags to my blog entries. So as the number of rides increases, this will hopefully help curious readers locate areas that particularly interest them.best, Roberthttp://robertwboyd.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Talbot Posted February 17, 2008 Share Posted February 17, 2008 Sounds like a cool project. The bunkhouse is really interesting to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RWB Posted February 17, 2008 Author Share Posted February 17, 2008 Sounds like a cool project. The bunkhouse is really interesting to me.Thanks. I would invite folks who are interested in these houses to go see them for themselves--I'm not the greatest photographer (you may have noticed!) and would love to see other people's photos of some of the same sites.That "bunkhouse" is especially eccentric. Huge, like all houses on that street, but deliberately immitating a kind of working-man's housing, which is most definitely not like any other houses in the area. An analogy would be to build a McMansion-sized row house! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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