favorite non-film photos of 2009

I recently wrote an article for Slackerwood about my favorite Austin movie-related photos that I took in 2009. It was lots of fun, and now I am sitting here wondering: what are my favorite photos that aren't related to movies? I am digging through my Flickr account to find out.

And, goodness me, I sure do take a lot of film-related photos. I want to pick out the non-film ones, and I have to remind myself: zombies at a red-carpet movie event are film related, photos of venues that are used during film festivals are film related, photos of my Slackerwood colleagues ... you get the idea.

But here are my favorite so far that aren't film related. Not much, anyway.

This is almost film-related: my husband outside a movie theater in New Braunfels, where I was covering a film festival. But there's nothing movie-ish in the actual photo, so there.

I confess, it's not so much that I like this photo, but that I like the quote. This is a mobile on the ceiling of the new library in my neighborhood, which opened in the spring:

I took a lot of photos during our neighborhood's annual July 4 parade. I didn't know some of the families, but I figure if you are parading around in a homemade "float" then you can't object to having your photo taken (if they had objected, of course, I would have stopped). All the same, this young lady was charmingly shy:

I actually know this adorable child and his parents:

This is only film-related in the sense that I was at the Four Seasons to interview some people about a movie -- and time was short so I couldn't take their picture. Instead, on the way out, I took photos of the lovely gingerbread house display in the hotel lobby:

Speaking of the holidays, I took this one in Tucson during our recent vacation. Santa looks like a dirty old man, leering at Mrs. Santa's sister:

Another Tucson photo:

Finally -- I can't believe I left this out of my Slackerwood article, and I think it's because I forgot I took it in 2009. This is my favorite photo of the Paramount marquee, taken from an angle so it looks like a band of color, not like a movie marquee. I can't resist.

Posted at January 4, 2010 08:10 AM