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Teaching a mini-marketing class at LACP on Sunday. I hope to see you there! INFO:  https://lacphoto.org/events/marketing-tuneup-for-photographers-with-stephen-schafer-march-17-2019/ ••• HABSPHOTO.com Stephen Schafer, Photographer Ventura, California 805-652-1000 schaf@west.net     •••  

UCLA Clark Library Wins California Preservation Foundation Design Award. Congratulations Architectural Resources Group! https://californiapreservation.org/ucla-library/

  HABS/HAER/HALS and Architectural Photography in California, Oregon, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam… (Getting the truck to Guam is always a trick)

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…

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……

My photos are now getting published and are available on the Corbis Stock Photography site starting this week. Its been about a 15 years since my photos were last represented by a stock agency. Formerly my photos were with Uniphoto/Pictor, Adventure Photo and IBID, but they’re all gone now. I don’t miss the chore of…

It’s about time … The Kaufmann Desert House on my HABS_Photographer Instagram feed. Yes I’m on IG with the handle:  HABS_photographer (remember the underscore)! And it’s not just my HABS Photography, I’ll also be posting architectural photography from my archives and whatever I happen to be working on now.     SCHAF PHOTO Specializes in…

Please join the Ventura Film Society on Thursday September 10 @ 7:15pm at the Century 10 Downtown Ventura for “THE SALT OF THE EARTH”.  Sponsored by Latitudes Fine Art Gallery & Stephen Schafer German director Wim Wenders (Buena Vista Social Club, Pina, Paris Texas, Wings of Desire) confirms his mastery of the documentary form in this…

A post for photographers that use tripods: My favorite hack for making my battered tripods and stands look like new is electronics grade heat-shrink tubing. Easy to slide over the top sections of a tripod, just remove the leg lock, slide and  shrink the plastic tubing with a heat-gun and replace the leg lock (get…

HistoricPlacesLA; historicplacesla.org   via www.architecturaldigest.com Every now & then it's nice to be involved w/ Architectural Digest.