Once upon a time, there was an architectural photographer named Goldilocks. She went to a job in the forest to take three shots for a local architect. Pretty soon, after Siri took her down a few dead ends, she came upon the house in the trees. She knocked and, when no one answered, she walked…
Marketing Tune-up for Photographers with Stephen Schafer
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 •••
HABS/HAER/HALS Documentations from 2017 and 2018
A selection of my favorite large format negatives from the last couple years of Historic American Buildings Survey photography (HABS). By Stephen Schafer, Ventura, California, (805)-652-1000
UCLA Clark Library Wins California Preservation Foundation Design Award. Congratulations Architectural Resources Group! https://californiapreservation.org/ucla-library/
HABS GUY
HABS/HAER/HALS and Architectural Photography in California, Oregon, Nevada, Hawaii and Guam… (Getting the truck to Guam is always a trick)
HABS Mitigation for CEQA (Part 1: Is Cheaper Also Better?)
Documentation of historic resources is one way to mitigate impacts to significant properties and photographic documentation is one facet of a comprehensive CEQA mitigation strategy, and donating it to the National Park Service through their informal donation policy is less expensive than distributing multiple archival copies locally. The data created for HABS/HAER/HALS requires a Life Expectancy of over 500 years… Can your local historical society do that?
New Book About 1500 Mission Street, San Francisco
Announcing the publication of the 1500 Mission Street Historic Building Documentation book.
MAD Stickers Ye Shall Find
7 Aspects of Integrity and CEQA stickers are here!
New Book About San Francisco’s Pier 70 Buildings
Announcing the publication of the softcover version of the San Francisco Pier 70 Historic Building Documentation book.
Photographing the First California HAER Documentation, HAER-CA-1 (again)
We executed a documentation mitigation to HABS/HAER/HALS standards to be transmitted as an addendum to the 1975 materials. New drawings and report were prepared by historical architecture firm Garavaglia Architecture in Downtown San Francisco and we were brought in to document the exterior and interior before changes were made.