Repost: IG friend and freelance photographer Daniel Driensky (@dd_danieldriensky) not only snapped a lovely picture of a lit-up @HarwoodDistrict #Christmastree recently, he also captured a wide swath of #downtownDallas being beautiful (of course). #dallas
In a crowd of nearly 1,000 celebrities — actresses Dakota Fanning, Kristen Stewart and Lauren Hutton among them — top Chanel customers in Dallas and around the country, supermodels and members of the international fashion media made their way to a chilly Fair Park on Tuesday night to attend the French fashion house’s Métiers d’Art runway show.
The once-a-year show is always held in a locale important to Chanel’s history. The clothes in a Métiers collection are keyed geographically to that year’s location. Dallas played an important role in Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s career.
When 87-year-old Arthur Blanchard got burned out as a banking lawyer, he turned full-time to drawing. He figures he’s done 300 sketches of people he’s ridden with on DART buses, which are now part of his “Bus People” collection.
See and read more. (Photo: Nathan Hunsinger/Dallas Morning News)
Someone took pity on the Traveling Man sculpture on Saturday in Deep Ellum and gave him a scarf. It was brrr-cold, especially for those made of metal.
(Photo: Tom Fox/Dallas Morning News)
A street sign dripped with ice yesterday near LBJ and Miller Road in northeast Dallas. (Louis DeLuca/DMN)
Our Facebook friend Kim Pormasdoro of Sunnyvale sent us this photo of a frozen #Texas plate. Cold! #txwx
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
— Invictus by William Ernest Henry
#nelsonmandela #ripnelsonmandela #dallas #downtowndallas #southafrica (at Omni Dallas Hotel)
Staff photog Gary Barber snapped these sign-cicles at the downtown Denton transit center on his way home.
National Weather Service says ice should begin impacting Dallas roads around 7 p.m. and warns that a “high impact ice storm” is very likely. As a result, some flights into and out of D/FW Airport are already being canceled. Here’s our roundup of closings and cancellations and other Dallas-Fort Worth weather info you need to know.
You should give staff photographer Guy Reynold’s Instagram feed (@reyguy) a look some time. He shares glimpses of Dallas-Fort Worth from perspectives not often considered, like this one while on a recent visit to the Color! American Photography Transformed exhibit at Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth.
In the background is a picture by William Eggleston, the photographer credited for making color photography acceptable in the eyes of the photographic art community back in the ’60s and ’70s.
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Have any Ugly Christmas Sweater parties on your schedule?
The North Polar Express revved up for the city of Grapevine’s Christmas Capital of the World celebration last Wednesday. This event is over, but you can visit the top 10 holiday light displays around Dallas-Fort Worth.
(Ron Baselice/Dallas Morning News)
Repost: WFAA-8 production manager Doug Boehner’s picture of the gigantic tree at the Galleria reminds us that it’s officially, actual, for-real-deal Christmastime. Exciting. (P.S. It’s the largest indoor holiday tree in the U.S. — 4 stories!)
Ten years ago while pushing his son around in a stroller, Dallas Morning News photo editor Guy Reynolds began to photograph homemade Texas maps at vehicle inspection stations. Official signs are available from the state for a fee, but many business owners opt to paint their own.
These signs, with their simplistic and often skewed renditions of the state’s outline, are a type of unintentional folk art. View the whole photo essay here.