If you're in Chicago with all your camera equipment… …And you can get a hotel room across the street from the Historic Chicago Theater… on the 7th floor… above the 'L' tracks… and you've talked the theater owner into turning on the marquee lights even without a show… and nobody parks a truck in front… and it…
Historic Preservation
HABS on HIGH -Sonoma Blue Wing Inn Survey
While the rest of the visitors to Sonona taste wine and cheese, we’re surveying the Blue Wing Inn Adobe to add to the HABS documentation from 1934…
Bixby Bridge HAER (Historic American Engineering Record)
Bixby Bridge HAER… This photo speaks a thousand words, (it’s two 5×7 negatives, so maybe 2000 plus a couple hundred to descrbe the itching and the perfect weather conditions) and it’s a panorama though not quite 360 degrees. I think the photo title should be 1000/360.
The “F”-word & The HABS at the Edge of America
One of the most interesting HABS photography projects in a while took me to the bottom edge of America last week to photograph the San Ysidro Customs House in San Diego at the Tijuana border… a cram-me-into-a-corner-with-a-camera affair.
Talented Masons, Opium Pipes, and a Big Hole in San Francisco
A year ago I spent a drizzly couple of December days doing a HABS-like documentation of a handsome brick building on Natoma Street in Downtown San Francisco…
The brick buildings are gone, the bus ramps are gone, the Pfleuger Terminal is gone and construction proceeds day and night; but opium pipes and porcelain doll heads from the 1880s keep telling stories.
Exercise in Lighting…(or lighting as exercise)
This week my photo assistant Dave Sanchez and I put in three long days in the Sierras above Bishop, California photographing a Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation of some hydro-electric powerplants.
HABS Photographer Stephen Schafer Selected for Best of ASMP 2011
I’m excited to be one of twenty photographers chosen… for the seventh annual Best of ASMP 2011… (and the first HABS photographer).
MaD FLAWS Mnemonic for Seven Aspects of Integrity (National Register)
…Mnemonic to remember the seven aspects of integrity… MaD FLAWS… Materials, Design, Feeling, Location, Association, Workmanship, Setting… this is the 46th time I’ve looked this up…