Dallas Travel Photography: Delight in the Great Outdoors
Everything is bigger in Texas—and Big D—and that includes the great outdoors. You’ll find scenes and subject matter that are both panoramic and delightfully subtle and delicate for your Dallas travel photography.
Wherever you are in Dallas, you won’t be far from the city’s many green spaces totaling more than 21,000 acres. If you’re traveling to downtown Dallas on business for just a few days, then take a break from the meetings and socializing and relax at any of these central city green spaces.
Belo Garden is one of the newest urban parks in downtown Dallas and was built purposely as a quiet oasis among the bustling city. Most of the Garden is planted with trees and beds of perennials. It’s a great location from which to photograph the skyline, or a contrasting landscape with a wide-angle lens, framing colorful flowers in the foreground and a soaring, modern skyscraper filling the background.
Main Street Garden is beautifully located on an entire city block, with an openness that welcomes you and plenty of fresh air and sunlight. It’s both a respite from the city noise and traffic and wonderfully accented by many historic buildings on either side, including Mercantile Place, the Universities Center of Dallas and Old City Hall. The Great Lawn affords many secluded and quiet location to enjoy the Garden and add many grand views of the city to your Dallas travel photography. Make sure you visit the Spetrascape with your camera. It’s located within the garden shelters and is an interactive light and media art display. Main Street Garden also has its own café, the Lily Pad, which features an organic menu of local, natural foods that also deserve to be photographed as a memory of your visit there.
Enjoy the bounty of local agriculture at the Dallas Farmers Market, one of the largest open-air markets in the country. Its displays of fresh, colorful fruits and vegetables are perfect subject matter for your Dallas travel photography. Relax as you stroll throughout the Market and take the opportunity to practice still-life photography of the carefully stacked and exquisitely presented harvest. You won’t find better places in the city to capture interesting people pictures, so make sure you have telephoto focal length options, so you can shoot from a distance.
The Trinity River Audubon Center is both a great family activity and a beautiful setting to photograph the Trinity River environment and its many birds, wildlife and plant life. Many trails crisscross the Center’s property leading you to specialized nature areas, such as Wood Duck Pond, Dragonfly Pond, Great Egret Pond and Great Blue Heron Pond. Nature Club is for children 5–12, and provides a year-round calendar of activities that teach them about preserving the wild places and offers you fun-filled images for your Dallas travel photography. Adults can join the Birding 101 workshop to learn how to identify birds during a tour of the park. It’s an opportunity to make new friends and take pictures of your fun together.
To escape the city entirely, take the short drive to Cedar Ridge Preserve. It is an area of high ground in northern Texas that is reminiscent of the hill country much farther to the south. Here, you’ll find a natural habitat of 600 acres with approximately 9 miles of trails. Nature presents itself in all its abundance, as you find yourself in a paradise of native trees, grasses and wildflowers and a full complement of native animal species, including mammals, birds, insects and reptiles. Your Dallas travel photography of the Preserve won’t be complete without a collection of images from its butterfly garden.
Dallas may be a city of big business and big doings, but its citizens are just as dedicated to a clean environment and plenty of green space. All of it filled with many opportunities to add interesting images to your Dallas travel photography.
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