Announcing the publication of the 1500 Mission Street Historic Building Documentation book.
Author: HABS HAER Photographer Stephen Schafer
MAD Stickers Ye Shall Find
7 Aspects of Integrity and CEQA stickers are here!
New Book About San Francisco’s Pier 70 Buildings
Announcing the publication of the softcover version of the San Francisco Pier 70 Historic Building Documentation book.
Photographing the First California HAER Documentation, HAER-CA-1 (again)
We executed a documentation mitigation to HABS/HAER/HALS standards to be transmitted as an addendum to the 1975 materials. New drawings and report were prepared by historical architecture firm Garavaglia Architecture in Downtown San Francisco and we were brought in to document the exterior and interior before changes were made.
Archival Photo Mount Cards and Negative Sleeves for HABS/HAER/HALS Documentation
This is a resource page for those doing Historic American Buildings Survey photography and having a hard time finding the archival negative envelopes and slotted print mount cards that are required by HABS, HAER and HALS for transmission to the Library of Congress. All the specifications for transmittal of archival negatives and prints for the…
Summer Before and Afters
Though it’s not HABS photography, these are rehabilitated historic buildings. Here’s a couple Before and Afters from the hot summer evenings in 2017… Whittier Comstock & Polk and Evanston Court in Pasadena. They always look better at dusk than they do at 100º at noon… Comstock & Polk, Whittier, CA. Evanston Court, Pasadena, CA…
New book about the Isabelle Greene designed Lovelace Garden for HALS
Announcing the publication of the softcover version of the Lovelace Garden Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) book. http://www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/1228021?__r=229643 144 Pages with lots of photos and including Isabelle Greene's sketches plans for the garden, all the color field photos, the narrative, HABS drawings of the teahouse and garage, and of course PGADesign’s HALS drawings. The…
Getting a HABS/HAER/HALS Photography Quote
I field a lot of calls for HABS, HAER or HALS photography services so I wanted to put the fourteen most important questions for a HABS photography project out there. This will help you get the fastest and most complete estimate and if you’re getting competitive bids, every photographer will be quoting the same project, apples to…
Lighting Workshop April 2, 2017 at LACP
Photography strobe lighting 101 workshop at the Los Angeles Center of Photography April 2017
San Buenaventura Conservancy hopes to find a taker for historic Ventura farmhouse
The owners of a farmhouse built in the 1870s and the San Buenaventura Conservancy are hoping someone will move the James Day home and restore it. Read the article by Tony Biasotti in the Ventura County Star newspaper. San Buenaventura Conservancy hopes to find a taker for historic Ventura farmhouse I’m in the ‘paper' today……