Texas Travel
Last week, I did some traveling within Texas. After stopping at ALERT for a few days, I made a trip to nearby Longview to visit the LeTourneau University campus and museum.
R.G. LeTourneau was an inventor of earthmoving equipment. His designs propelled the building of highways, dams, canals, and jungle clearing in the early 20th century. He ran his company with his personal Christian convictions, even bringing evangelists to the factory and continuing to pay employees while they listened to a gospel message.
I recently completed reading his autobiography, Mover of Men and Mountains, and highly recommend it.
Meeting up with my family and extended family, we did a bit of family research in New Baden, Texas (I was last there in 2004). A friend in College Station even took some family members for an aerial tour of the old family homestead!
Here are my two favorite shots from the trip. These photos have the fake Lomo effect, which has a nice touch.
Old General Store in New Baden
Preparing for a flight in the Cozy Mark IV, a Burt Rutan design. (Tail of a Gulfstream IV is in the background.)
More photos are in a Flickr photoset.
March 1, 2006 at 7:24 am
Hi have downloaded the lomo actions, but my version (photoshop elements) doesnt mention actions anywhere. have placed actions in folder as directed manually - but then cant activate it?? Can anyone help a photoshop novice (I prefer Corel! sorry)
haha
March 1, 2006 at 10:20 pm
I’m not familiar with Photoshop Elements, but if it cannot do actions, you can follow the manual instructions here.
March 20, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Josh,
Thank you for recommending LeTourneau’s book. I bought it upon your suggestion and thorougly enjoyed reading it. I learned a lot from his business convictions, and I like his down-to-earth writing style.
Bryce