Panorama of Discovery Green Park at Dawn - Downtown Houston Texas

by Silvio Ligutti

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Panorama of Discovery Green Park at Dawn - Downtown Houston Texas

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Silvio Ligutti

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Having left work at around 5:30 PM, I didn't really want to be stuck in traffic for an hour on my commute back home, (23 miles covered in an hour!), so I decided to head in to downtown and wait for rush hour to vanish...I thought I'd try to photograph the area around Discovery Green Park and the skyscrapers surrounding it...the light can be tricky at this time, since one end of the photograph appears to be more lit than the other. Thanks for looking. FAA watermark will not show up on final printed image.

Discovery Green is a public urban park in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. Opened in 2008, Discovery Green 11.78-acre (47,700 m2) is located on Avenida de las Americas across from the George R. Brown Convention Center and the Hilton Americas Hotel, adjacent to Toyota Center. The park includes a lake, bandstands and venues for public performances, two dog runs, a children's area and multiple recreational areas.[1] The park was principally designed by the landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Associates.[2]

The first event held at the park was Houston Mayor Bill White's 2008 inauguration.[3] The park officially opened to the public on April 13, 2008. It is estimated that almost a quarter-million people visited the park between opening day and June 30, 2008. The estimates were made by comparing the size of crowds with the Houston Police Department's estimate of 30,000 people who went to the park on opening day.[4]

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February 11th, 2015

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