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…
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Ventura, California Featured in Preservation Magazine (With my photos)
It’s always nice when my town gets kudos from the media and even better when they use my photos to illustrate the story. A view from the Ventura Botanical Gardens was the lead image, along with Watermark on Main and Paradise Pantry. Historic Ventura, California is featured in the new Summer issue of PRESERVATION…
HABS Photos Featured in Frank Lloyd Wright Book
The HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey) photographs of the Ennis House that I completed for the LA Conservancy’s conservation easement program have been featured in a new book by Pia Licciardi and Leslie M. Freudenheim called Frank Lloyd Wright | The Man Who Played With Blocks. In this “Short Illustrated Biography” published by Royalston Books, my photos are…
Not just HABS/HAER photos but also Teaching … and more Teaching …
It’s a busy year (semester?) so far here at HABSPHOTO.com headquarters. We’ve been juggling a new set of projects like Ascent Apartments, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Mt. San Antonio College, and the San Francisco Presidio HABS projects. But I’m also teaching Advertising Photography (Art 455 B/C) at California State University Northridge (CSUN) this semester. If…
Photography for HABS, HAER and HALS Documentations
HABS and HAER documentation of historic sites explained by photographer Stephen Schafer of HABSPHOTO.com
PRE and POST Apartment Photographs
Here's a couple of pre and post photos from a recent project in Los Angeles. What once was a massive rail yard is now housing. Taylor Yard After Taylor Yard Before Stephen Schafer HABS/HAER Architectural Photography www.habsphoto.com Related articles Architectural Photographs PRE and POST
Acronym Day: New HABS HAER HALS album on APT website
Just uploaded a few choice Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) photographs to the Association of Preservation Technology (APT) website. Stephen Schafer is a HABS Photographer based in Ventura, California. 805-652-1000
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.