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…
Architectural Photography
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.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (or Dusk)
Architectural photography in Southern California allows for a lot of sun-lighting variation but inevitably the south facing buildings are finished in summer and the north facing ones are ready in winter… Must be Murphy’s Law of solar frustration.
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).
Old Libbey Bowl Photos…
These final images capture a Nordhoff High School concert in the bowl, and details of the sun-dappled outdoor venue which was built between 1954 and 1957.
Swiss Family Indian?
The most amazing place to show off Hollywood, the American Dream, the desert landscape, and Native American Culture is the Antelope Valley Indian Museum State Historic Park…Schaf Photo was commissioned by architect John Lesak of Page & Turnbull to photograph the site and show the thoughtful stabilization of the building. After a four-year rehabilitation…
Ennis House & Ahwahnee HABS (An Honor)
With the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis-Brown House in Los Angeles, 2010 proved to be a great year for HABS projects.