The theme for this week's photo challenge (ok, it took two weeks) was to shoot the same location at different times in the day. My thought behind it was just to see how different a spot looks at a different time of day. That might mean being at an outdoor location and finding the differences between the light during the middle of the day (harsh light with washed out color) and during the "golden hour" (that time about an hour after sunrise or about an hour before sunset with soft shadows and nice orange light). Or it might be coming back to the area at night to get a completely different look to the same place than during the day. I did all of that in one location, but I had another thought for this topic. I wanted to find a place that would be completely empty during one time of day but busy during another.

The place I had in mind for the empty/busy contrast was the downtown Fort Worth train station. That proved to be a bit difficult. We don't exactly have a train station that's like a New York subway. The platform is nice and the main lobby is beautiful, but I had this idea of hundreds of people standing along the track waiting for the train and reading newspapers (or, realistically, just staring at their phones). Or I pictured being inside the main lobby with a huge crowd moving through the station. I went to the station multiple times and never saw anything close to that. I didn't go before work, so maybe that's the secret, super-busy time. If anyone knows what that really busy time is please let me know so I can try this again. Oh well, I still got something I was happy with (even though it took a fair amount of time and some Photoshop trickery).

So, my location for getting the scene in different lights was the Tarrant County College campus downtown (Trinity River Campus). This is the location that used to be the Radio Shack Headquarters. It's a very cool looking campus. I focused on the water feature. First, I went during the middle of the day...in July...in Texas...with no shade. You can't tell in this picture, but I actually melted. Surely there should be some reward for my bravery. Or not.

For this shot I added a bit of an effect on this to make it look like a miniature. Honestly, it's tough to get something interesting in the middle of the day.

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This theme was probably the most effort for me of any of the past themes. I spent a lot of time planning and researching and a lot of time out shooting for this one - at least 3 trips to the train station and a couple hours at the college campus. Overall this was a good project.

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