the Fort Worth,Texas is part of Fort Worth, Texas, United States.
Interesting places in Fort Worth,Texas:

Kimbell Art Museum		Sundance Square
Fort Worth Mixmaster		Primate House
Original Stockyards		Amon Carter Stadium
Armour and Swift ruins		Water Gardens
Twu Law		Texas Wesleyan University
Pier 1 Tower Hq		Joe T. Garcias
Fort Worth Zoo		Fort Worth City Hall
LaGrave Field		Masonic Temple
Greenwood Memorial Park		Carter+ Burgess Plaza
Amon Carter Museum		Dr Horton Tower
Farrington Field		Goodbye Wreck Room
Zen Rock Garden		Trantula Rail Turntable
Cowtown Coliseum

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Lift House
Made by Noel Kerns
View Large On Black The Lift Engine House of the central building at the Swift Meat Packing Ruins in Fort Worth, Texas. Urbex Tip #18: Roof Walking (Unlike the other Urbex Tip I which posted a few days ago rather as a joke, this one is actually kinda serious!) Before venturing out onto the roof of a 5 story, 100 year-old building that's been abandoned for the better part of 40, there are several things one should do to make sure it's safe before taking that initial step... First, go back down to top floor (or whatever is below the roof where you'll be walking) and examine the ceiling for sags, water damage or dripping water. Look on the floor as well; is there standing water on the floor? Any of these conditions indicate that the roof is leaking water and that, in at least the area(s) where the water damage is, it may be structurally unstable. Note the area(s) of water damage and deduce their rough location on the roof above. If you still intend to go out on the roof, go back up, but before taking the first step, find something you can hold onto and step out. Does it feel OK, or was it mushy? Look around; are there any areas that darker, lighter, different in any way? Beware of those, especially if they correspond with the water damage areas on the level below. If you're a photographer and you have a tripod with you, extend it fully but with the legs still together, and place the feet on the next spot onto which you intend to step, and gently lean your weight on to it. If it feels stable, proceed on. Generally, the edges of a roof will be more stable than the middle, so if you can get where you're going following a perimeter path, that's probably best. Just don't fall off! In this photo, the area directly between the camera position and the stairs to the lift house was a bit sketchy, so I circumnavigated it around to the left side of the frame. Also, the are just to the right of my tripod here was VERY iffy; the gravel was darker, and it was noticeably softer upon testing. So even though that was where I really wanted to be for this shot, I settled for this spot here. Again, these tips probably seem obvious if you think about it a bit, but if you're new to exploring abandonments or thinking about getting into it, just be careful, use your head, and follow common sense: if it feels dangerous, it probably is, so proceed with caution...and don't say you weren't warned! Night, mostly full moon, ambient light, and yellow-gelled strobe. 20 second exposure.


"If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacement anyway"~
Made by turtlemom4bacon
Bongo Bob ~ These beautiful Lesser Kudu (NOT Bongo Antelopes as I first thought) were the first animals we saw at the Ft. Worth Zoo. The white markings reminded me of streusel on cinnamon buns... LOLLLLL *** Thank you, crazykanga for the correct ID of these animals!! :D *** Happy Gorgeous Green Thursday ~ Please view on the LARGER sizes ~ Kudu Wikipedia ~ The name of the animal was imported into English in the 18th century from isiXhosa iqudu, via Afrikaans koedoe. Lesser Kudus come from the savannas near acacia and commiphora shrubs. They have to rely on thickets for protection, so they are hardly ever seen in the open. Like many other antelope, male kudu can be found in bachelor groups, but they are more likely to be solitary. Their dominance displays tend not to last long and are generally fairly peaceful, consisting of one male making himself look big. When males do have a face-off, they will lock their horns in a competition to determine the stronger puller; kudus' necks enlarge during the mating season. Sometimes two competing males are unable to unlock their horns and end up dying. Males are seen with females only in the mating season, when they join groups of 5-15 kudus, including offspring. Calves grow very quickly and at six months are fairly independent of their mothers. When pregnant the female will leave the herd and give birth. She will leave the newborn lying out for 4-5 weeks, longer than any other antelope. Then the calf will start meeting its mother for short periods at a time. At 3 or 4 months the calf will be with its mother constantly, and at about 6 months they will permanently join the group. When threatened, the kudu will run away rather than fight. Wounded bulls have been known to charge the attacker, hitting the attacker with their horns rather than stabbing it. Wounded females can keep running for many miles without stopping to rest for more than a minute. They are great kickers and are capable of breaking a wild dog or jackal's neck or back. They are good jumpers and can clear a 5-foot fence from a standing start.


The Weigh-In
Made by Noel Kerns
View Large On Black Weigh station at the old Swift Meat ruins in Fort Worth, Texas. This is an interesting little building. As you can probably tell, this building was a weigh station for train cars, and it still has the large old beam scale in it, which was in turn attached the the weighing platform the rail cars sat on, as you can see in the picture. Today, if you enter this small building through the door on the far end of it and walk past the scale back to the near end of it, you'll find a ladder. That ladder takes you down underground, into the mechanisms of the weighing platform. This is in itself an interesting experience, but if you walk to a point at the north end of the platform room, directly underneath the camera position for this shot, you'll see a wall that leaves maybe 3 feet of space between the ceiling and the top of the wall. Climb over that wall and the interesting experience turns, well, surreal. In this last little enclave, in perhaps the most remote, obscure place on the property that is still accessible, you'll find where someone has setup a collection of little figurines, some which appeared to be quite old. They were all carefully arranged, almost as if one might setup a shrine of some sort. Very, very strange. I regretted not taking my camera with me down into the chamber, but I didn't feel like climbing back out and getting it, just to shoot a documentary picture of it, so if you wanna see it, climb down and check it out yourself...if it's even still there. This room almost certainly floods during heavy rain, but that last little section where the figurines were may be protected by it's wall. If you go, be careful, and let me know if any of the little figurines are still there. Night, mostly full moon & ambient sodium vapor light, blue gelled strobe & natural LED flashlight.


Swift & Company
Made by Noel Kerns
View Large On Black I finally made it into the old Swift Meat Packing complex at the Stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas. I've wanted to shoot this site for months now, but timing, security issues, and unreturned phone calls had thwarted my intentions at every turn. I basically gave up trying to contact the proper authorities for permission and just infiltrated the site last night. There is currently security personnel onsite 24/7, as part of the complex is being used to shoot the Fox TV show Prison Break, so stealth and caution were required to navigate the property, fire off strobes, and use flashlights without being discovered. I was onsite for about 3 hours; this was the first shot I took. The Armour & Swift Meat Packing Complex was established in 1902; Armour & Co. at the north end of the complex and Swift & Co. at the south. Livestock business boomed in the area at that time, so much so that by 1907 an arena was built (in only 3 months) to host the annual Feeders and Breeders show. That same arena, now known as the Cowtown Coliseum, also hosted many other events through the years, including the first ever indoor rodeo. In 1911, the area around the meat packing plants was chartered as a separate town called Niles City, named after Louville V. Niles, one of the initial co-investors in stockyards. The rise of the trucking industry after World War II, with its greater flexibility and lower operating costs, is largely credited with the decline of the stockyards. Armour closed its plant in 1962, and Swift followed suit 9 years later, in 1971. Amazingly, these old ruins have sat decaying in the middle of Fort Worth ever since. This huge complex is truly a ghost town within a city. Night, almost full moon, lots of ambient mercury & sodium vapor light. 30 second exposure @ ISO 200.


The Lathe of Heaven [Explored #98]
Made by Cliff_Baise
The Fort Worth Water Gardens, built in 1974, is located on the south end of downtown Fort Worth between Houston and Commerce Streets next to the Fort Worth Convention Center. The 4.3 acre (1.7 hectare) Water Gardens were designed by noted New York architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee and was dedicated to the City of Fort Worth by the Amon G. Carter Foundation. The urban park is frequently billed as a cooling oasis in the concrete jungle of downtown. Its focal points are three pools of water and a terraced knoll, which helps to shield the park from adjacent Interstate 30. The quiet meditation pool is encircled with trees and features a flat, still plane of water that cascades almost 90 degrees down to a sunken walkway. The aerating pool features multiple spray fountains. The main attraction of the Water Gardens is the active pool which has water cascading 38 feet (11 m) down terraces and steps into a small pool at the bottom. It also has over 500 species of plants and trees throughout the park. The active pool was originally built for people to be able to walk down the terraced steps and experience the water tumbling around them. It was closed to the public after four people died there on June 16, 2004. Three children and one adult drowned after one of the children fell in the pool. It is mistakenly believed that the child jumped in to swim. The other three jumped in trying to save the child. The water was unusually deep due to a recirculating pump malfunction and heavy rains. The park was reopened in March 4, 2007 after being made safer by reducing the depth of the main pool from 9 ft (2.7 m). to 2 ft (0.61 m). Part of the film Logan's Run was filmed in the active pool at the Water Gardens in 1976. The pool is also featured briefly at the end of the 1979 TV adaptation of The Lathe of Heaven. This image was submitted for the Image Wizards and OpenCamp Vibrant Photo contest!


~ A Very Special Visitor ~
Made by ~ Bron ~
You just never know what will turn out to be a popular image. All I can say is thank you to all the wonderful Flickr members who's comments and invitations to groups have made this a popular image on Flickr. As of the end of December 2009, it has been viewed over 1,250 times, has received over 400 comments and over 80 people have marked it as a favorite. I am very humbled but pleased that people enjoy the image. I was outside this afternoon when I saw something bright orange sitting on the grass in my yard. It was a Viceroy Butterfly ~ and in beautiful condition. It was quite fidgety and would take off and fly in and out of my yard ~ but luckily always coming back. It eventually landed on a small tree which allowed me to sneak up on it from behind and get a few decent shots (see next photo in the steam), but mostly it preferred to sit in the grass, which meant I had to crawl on my belly through the grass to get the shots I wanted ~ anything for a nice shot right !! The Viceroy Butterfly (Limenitis archippus) is a North American butterfly with a range from the Northwest Territories along the eastern edges of the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada mountains, southwards into central Mexico.Its wings feature an orange and black pattern, and over most of its range it is a Müllerian mimic with the Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus). (information from Wikipedia)


Visitors
Made by Noel Kerns
View Large On Black Doorway to a large, refrigerated room on the top floor of the tallest building at the old Swift Meat Packing ruins in Fort Worth, Texas. There's an interesting story behind the title to this one. When I first arrived at this, the top floor on Monday night, this door was opened just about as you see it here, but it also had a flip-flop type sandal wedged underneath it to hold it open. At that point though, I needed the door fully open to place my tripod for a different shot, so I kicked the sandal out, and kicked it behind the door. The door opened fully, and didn't even need to be propped open; it stayed in place nicely on it's own. When I left the building that night, that's also just how I left it; wide open to the wall with the sandal behind the door. When I arrived the next night (when this shot was made), I found the door halfway open once again, with the sandal wedged underneath it. That freaked me out just a little bit. Anyway, I kicked the sandal out once again and made this shot. I'm sure if I go back, the sandal will be under the door again! :-) Night, a small amount of ambient sodium overridden with red, yellow, and blue-gelled strobe pops.


Texas & Pacific Warehouse
Made by Noel Kerns
View Large On Black Abandoned Texas & Pacific Warehouse, Fort Worth, Texas. Built in 1931 along with it's sister building, the T&P Passenger Terminal located one block to the east, this mammoth art-deco warehouse building appears to have served the railroad line until 1978 or so. Ownership changed hands once or twice over the ensuing years, with part of the facility leased out a few years back to a paintball site operator. Over two football fields long, the building sits completely vacant now, other than some homeless belongings and a lot of crusty old infrastructural machinery, mostly located in the basement. The basement was evidently flooded for years, and only recently has drained to the point where the building can be accessed. Currently there's a contract in place for the building to be converted to lofts, as has already been done with the T&P Terminal down the street. Thanks to Explorer Phil for showing me around this remarkable old building. Night, no moon, but ambient light from many directions. Composite of two exposures, white balanced @ 2500K. Perspective adjusted in Photoshop.


"What to do if you can't see the bright side of life? Polish the dull side" ~
Made by turtlemom4bacon
This beautiful lavender Water Hyacinth with the big shiny leaves was at the Botanical Garden in Ft. Worth! Happy Pretty PURPLE Saturday ~ ** Thank you Bonnie (Bonnie5378) for the correct name!!! Water Hyacinth Wekipedia ~ The seven species of water hyacinth comprise the genus Eichhornia. Water hyacinth are a free-floating perennial aquatic plant native to tropical and sub-tropical South America. With broad, thick, glossy, ovate leaves, water hyacinth may rise above the surface of the water as much as 1 meter in height. The leaves are 10–20 cm across, and float above the water surface. They have long, spongy and bulbous stalks. The feathery, freely hanging roots are purple-black. An erect stalk supports a single spike of 8-15 conspicuously attractive flowers, mostly lavender to pink in colour with six petals. When not in bloom, water hyacinth may be mistaken for frog's-bit (Limnobium spongia). One of the fastest growing plants known, water hyacinth reproduces primarily by way of runners or stolons, which eventually form daughter plants. It also produces large quantities of seeds, and these are viable up to thirty years. The common water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) are vigorous growers known to double their population in two weeks.


Bike Beauty
Made by Tomorrowville
Holga tip: one of the best ways to use up a roll of 120 is to fill it with cycle chic images of a cute & stylish lady and her vintage bicycle. Taking advantage of late-day sunlight bouncing around an alleyway off Magnolia in Fort Worth's Near Southside with the awesome Harley and her old Schwinn. Holga 120N, Kodak TMax 400. I'm always impressed by my personal Holga, which seems to have been put together on a day when the factory was particularly on top of things. I rarely get any light leaks at all (the only tape on the thing are two strips securing the latches and a little tab to cover the red window when not in use). The lens is oddly sharp for a Holga, as can be seen in this photo - it's only at the outer edges that it starts to get noticeably softer. It has the classic old Holga double-exposure-in-the-lower-right-corner issue (which has since been fixed on newer 120Ns) and the also-apparently-fixed-on-newer-examples non-functioning aperture switch (it moves a plate around, but the aperture plate is larger than the hole in the lens, meaning it has absolutely no effect), but on the whole it's an oddly well-put-together and sharp example of the Holga world.


Elemental Quintessence
Made by TxPilot
The Water Gardens in downtown Fort Worth, Texas is a very cool place and was one of the locations where the 1976 Sci-Fi movie Logan's Run was filmed. It is hard to get a full sense of scale of this place but the orb sort of helps. That orb is a little over 6 feet tall I would guess. :-) While down in the bottom of this Active Pool, the sound levels were very high and I had to communicate with Cameron as he managed the cameras with, of course, Light signals! ;-) There were a lot of people around during the time we were there and Cameron was approached by a lady who asked us if we were Ghost Hunters! ;-) And I guess, in a way, we are! But only the glowing ones! ;-) I can only imagine what some of the others were thinking as they watched me swing lights around down in this watery pit! ;-) It is almost hard to believe that this is almost a 5 minute exposure shot right in downtown Ft Worth! Light Painting SOOC with crop or minor levels adjustments. Single Exposure.


Peeled Away
Made by Noel Kerns
Big Like Texas! Swift Meat Packing Ruins, Fort Worth, Texas. Easily the most interesting building still accessible on the property, this photo shows how both the northern wall and western side of the building have collapsed away from the rest of the structure. You can see along the right side of the building a section of wall still standing, with twisted rebar sticking out from where this smaller section collapsed. All the interior doors in this building were large, thick and wide, with meat-locker type latching handles on them, indicating this entire building was used for processing. Word on the street is, the entire site is to be demolished after the Fox TV series 'Prison Break' is done shooting here. Shouldn't take much to level this building; water seeps all through it after a rain, with standing water on most floors almost all the time. The damage and decay from it are visually evident at every turn as you walk the building. Night, full moon, lots of ambient sodium & mercury vapor light. 20 second exposure.


The Temple
Made by Cliff_Baise
The Ballpark in Arlington. Home of the Texas Rangers. I'm ready... Built in 1994, the Ballpark was designed by David M. Schwarz Architectural Services of Washington, D.C. The Rangers chose to build a retro-style ballpark, incorporating many features of baseball's Jewel Box parks. A roofed home run porch in right field is reminiscent of Tiger Stadium, while the white steel frieze that surrounds the upper deck was copied from the pre-1973 Yankee Stadium. The out-of-town scoreboard (removed in 2009 and replaced with a state-of-the-art videoboard) was built into the left-field wall—a nod to Fenway Park, while the numerous nooks and crannies in the outfield fence are a reminder of Ebbets Field. The park's red brick and granite exterior was copied from Oriole Park at Camden Yards, while the arched windows are a reminder of Comiskey Park. However, it has a few distinct features of its own. Several traditional Texas-style stone carvings are visible throughout the park. A four-story office building in center field encloses the park, with a white steel multilevel facade similar to the facade on the roof. -wiki


Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis)
Made by ~ Bron ~
The Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis) is a favorite for a lot of reasons; the unusually beautiful flowers are not only fun to photograph, but they attract a multitude of insects ~ especially Butterflies, and the seeds of this plant are eaten by a wide variety of birds. The Buttonbush is a woody shrub (3-10 feet tall) that occasionally grows into a small tree and can be found above water or in water up to 4 feet deep. Flowers of buttonbush are easily identified by their greenish-white tube flowers in dense ball-shaped clusters about 1 inch in diameter. Seed heads are brown. Submerged portions of all aquatic plants provide habitats for many micro and macro invertebrates. These invertebrates in turn are used as food by fish and other wildlife species (e.g. amphibians, reptiles, ducks, etc. ). After aquatic plants die, their decomposition by bacteria and fungi provides food (called detritus) for many aquatic invertebrates. (information provided by Texas A&M University, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences web site).


Ashes to Dust
Made by Noel Kerns
View Large On Black Lower level furnace area, Echo Lake Incinerator, Fort Worth, Texas. Taken during the Dallas Fort Worth Photography Meetup Group Night Shoot on March 22nd. We had a nice group of folks, 13 in all, who up showed up to see what night photography and light painting are all about. While I think a few felt a bit out of their element at first, over the course of the night I visited with several folks who produced some fine images, as well some others who, even though they were having difficulties, seemed to eventually have that Aha! moment where the realization of the possibilities began to sink in. Overall, I think everyone had a good time, and that everyone got something positive out of the experience. Hoprfully we'll have some new, inspired night shooters in the DFW area! Night, totally dark area lit with low-angle flourescent lantern & orange gelled strobes. Composite of two exposures.


Slaughterhouse Rubble
Made by Noel Kerns
Really, view it , it's looks a lot better. Swift Meat Packing ruins, Fort Worth, Texas. This particular area of the property is a bit more treacherous than most. There are holes like this one you see here all over the area, though most of them are covered in a layer of rubble from the demolished cattle slaughterhouse that used to stand on this spot. Some even have grass growing over them. There are a few places, like here, where the adventurous (read: foolish) can venture down into what would have been the basement of the old slaughterhouse...not a recommended activity in my book, even though I don't think you can get very far. The danger here, particularly with some of the other holes, is not noticing that the rubble you're walking over is concealing such a hole, and the possibility of that rubble shfting or collapsing underneath you. Night, full moon, ambient sodium vapor light, LED flashlight from camera left, and red-gelled strobe, snooted to the curvature of the opening by my hand.


EPA
Made by Noel Kerns
Last shot from the Echo Lake Incinerator for a while...I'm sure I'll have more in the future, but right now, all that's left besides this one are rejects. The EPA changed their regulations sometime in the 1960's such that facilities like this one at Echo Lake could no longer operate. As a result, this building has set idle for something on the order 40 years now...no surprise really, I wouldn't think a building like this one could be re-purposed very easily. That said, the place evidently was sold sometime in the 1980's to a man who had the intention of turning it into a dinner theatre, but alas, it never came to fruition...and so this mid-20th century relic sits slowly decaying, towering silently on it's hill overlooking south Fort Worth. Night, dark room, red, yellow, turquoise and blue-gelled strobes. And to answer the question, no there's no light bulb in that fixture top-left; the yellow shape there is just an reflection artifact from the yellow strobe pop.


Swift Revisited
Made by Noel Kerns
The view is a must here. Another shot from the crow's nest at the Swift Meat Packing Ruins, near the stockyards in Fort Worth, Texas. I was never completely happy with my original image of this scene at the Swift Plant; so when I revisited the site again back in February with Chris & (who was visiting from El Paso), I got the opportunity to shoot it once again, this time with some interesting cloud cover! Unfortunately though, as we saw these spectacular clouds rolling in on a lower floor of the building on what had been a clear night, I wasn't able to make to the roof as quickly as I had hoped, as we ran into some urbex guys and I was delayed chatting long enough that the leading edge of these clouds had already passed through by the time I was able to make this shot. All things considered, I still like the shot, but if I could have gotten there 3 or 4 minutes sooner... :-) Night, dark of the moon, ambient sodium & mercury vapor light, 2 minute exposure.


Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Made by TexasEagle
EXPLORE #64 on October 18, 2008. I love to watch the aerial acrobatics of this bird. I photographed this one near Lake Grapevine in May, 2007. This is the bird just the way I saw it. No photoshopping. I did adjust sharpness and exposure and increased saturation and I did a gaussian blur on the background. There is almost no mistaking the scissor-tailed flycatcher. The male’s nine-inch-long tail and the female’s slightly shorter one proclaim their identity whether seen in good light or in silhouette, flying or perched. It is the Oklahoma state bird. Pale gray is the scissortail’s predominant color, approaching white on the face and breast. The wings are blackish, the tail black and white. Scarlet “armpits” are mostly concealed while the bird is perched, and a scarlet crown patch is almost always hidden. The flanks and belly are flushed salmon pink, which can vary in brightness from individual to individual.


RGB 4.0
Made by Noel Kerns
View Large On Black; it's the only way to really see any detail. Doorway & Stairs, Texas & Pacific Warehouse, Fort Worth, Texas. Thanks to Explorer Phil for showing me around this remarkable old building. This image is a bit deceptive; what looks like excessive noise in the top and right portions of the image are in fact just texture in the wall, but in this digital age, our eyes are so trained to perceive that kind of thing as noise I almost can't get past it myself, and I know what it is! The wall itself is painted black, from the days when this part of the warehouse was used as a paintball venue. That's sodium vapor light creeping in through a screened window at upper left. Night, slight ambient sodium vapor light, red, green and blue-gelled strobes.