A few of my HABS* and HAER* donations were transmitted to the collection at the Library of Congress last year (2025). *Historic American Buildings Survey and Historic American Engineering Record.
Architectural Photography
LOS ANGELES TIMES MIRROR HABS
HABS large format photographs of the Times Mirror Building, constructed in 1970-73 for the Times Mirror Company, and designed by William L. Pereira & Associates.
HABS Photographer Writes a HABS/HAER/HALS substack
HABS Photography exposed and explained on my new Substack.
New HABS Photo Scans on the LoC Website
Just found two new sets of scanned records on the HABS site today. As the LoC slowly gets through the backlog of HABS/HAER/HALS photos waiting for scans from the last couple decades. It's nice to see some of my photos out in the public domain where they belong. These two examples of historic survey photography…
Lecture about HALS at the Sanborn Collection, CSUN
I'm doing a presentation. 🗺 At Cal State Northridge. I hope you can be there and see the marvelous and amazing maps that they have, and learn a bit about the HABS/HAER/HALS programs and how I use maps for research before every project. If you’d like more information about HABS, HAER or HALS photography take…
Lost in America the new book by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams – Book Review
Lost in America Book Review: Cahan and Williams, have crafted a book that’s an engaging foray through the demise of lost architecture while at the same time the book is a celebration of the Historic American Buildings Survey itself.
A Picture Perfect New Year 2023
HABS photography of a former Fotomat for inclusion in the Historic American Buildings Survey collection at the Library of Congress.
Angel Island Immigration Station Hospital PDA Award
Angel Island Immigration Station Hospital The Angel Island Immigration Station Hospital of San Francisco is a winner for the 2022 Preservation Design Award for Rehabilitation. We created photographs for Project Lead Mike Garavaglia of Garavaglia Architecture in San Francisco. About the Angel Island Immigration Station Hospital The former Immigration Station Hospital was rehabilitated for adaptive…
HABS and HAER Photographs of Lost History
Historic American Buildings Survey Photographs of buildings lost to the wrecking ball or just lost to time.
Introduction to (landscape) Photography video now available. (Free)
… honored to be included in this short educational photography session sponsored by the California Preservation Foundation (californiapreservation.org) and the California Garden and Landscape History Society (cglhs.org).