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| ICEFALL PORTAL DL Tolleson |
Tarrant County College is not unlike the plot from one of the original Star Trek television episodes. In that particular episode a giant, one-cell organism existed in a zone of dark space absorbing everything in its path. During their investigation, the crew of the good ship Enterprise learned that the organism was about to reproduce through cellular division and gobble up everything.
And that's just short of a close description of this
educational institution that began its existence in the
mid-1960s as a single campus, Junior college. Now it's
the Tarrant County College District, boasting a number of
campuses across the Metroplex as well as property in
downtown Fort Worth.
One of those downtown buildings—actually a group of
buildings—is a campus that the college bought that
came along with an already existing leasing tenant by the
name of RadioShack Corporation. This is a short-term
arrangement since the RadioShack Corporation is expected
to eventually move to a new site.
At any rate, it is at this downtown campus that the
college shares with RadioShack that I took the Icefall
Photographs made the basis of this portal. The images are
of the campus area exposed to the west and enclosed by
buildings on the other three sides. The photographs were
taken during one of the very rare ice and snow events
that Fort Worth infrequently endures. And, in fact, this
particular wintery episode was a low-temperature record
breaker.
As with the other photographic portals on this site, you
can start with the first image and view them one after
another (they're linked) or click any image and go
directly to the web page for that photograph, photography
data and associated narrative.
Your browser’s View and Zoom
options allow for further enlargement of images and if
your browser window weirds-out on you the View
and Refresh options will straighten things out.
If you get lost you can return to this page via the
Drop-Down Menu that is situated both at the top and
bottom of each photograph's web page. And, of course,
there are always the navigation links to the left.
One additional tip: These images can been enlarged 1000%
due to their sizes being anywhere from 1 MB to 20 MB.
This can mean a slowly loading photograph and/or image
noise (like dark bands, for example). If an image is
loading with distortion such as this, wait until it has
completely loaded onto the page. You then can use the
your View and Refresh options from the
tool bar at the top of the page. The image will then
rapidly and perfectly reload.
I hope you enjoy the images. Capturing them was a much
colder effort than they look.
 Icefall Site, 2B 01 |
 Icefall Site,5B 02 |
 Icefall, No. 1B 03 |
 Icefall, No. 2B 04 |
 Icefall, No. 3B 05 |
 Alien Ice, No. 1B 06 |
 Alien Ice, No. 2B 07 |
 Icefall II, No. 1B 08 |
 Icefall II, No. 4B 09 |