{"id":101,"date":"2012-04-08T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T13:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/?p=101"},"modified":"2026-03-21T17:15:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:15:03","slug":"bixby-bridge-haer-and-acronyms-like-apiwatw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/?p=101","title":{"rendered":"Bixby Bridge HAER (Historic American Engineering Record)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Poison Oak be damned, it’s nice when a 5×7 large format (LF) photography trip for a HAER photo documentation works out. It almost makes the two weeks with a rash worth it. I’ll forget about the rash, but in the spirit of the HABS\/HAER\/HALS* programs, these photos will endure in cold storage at Fort Meade in the LoC P&P* storage facility. Two weeks of itchin’ & scratchin’ for 500+ years of public benefit… So worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you decide to get out of your car on Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) and photograph in this area watch out for those little Poison Oak plants with red leaves,\u00a0“leaves of three, let it be.”\u00a0There are a million leaves of Poison Oak and they are all over the Big Sur hills. If I ever write a magazine article about photography in coastal CA (California) there will be a section about Posion Oak, so be careful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reversed image of HAER negatives with hands holding 5×7 negatives over a light box (reversed). Photos are a two-part panorama of the deck of Bixby Bridge in California. HAER CA-2297<\/sub><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This brings to mind the adage: “A picture is worth a thousand words,” it’s actually two pictures, so maybe it’s 2000 words? And for those of you who stumbled upon this page and have never heard of all these silly letters: The Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), The Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), and the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS), are historical documentation collections administered by the National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Documentation Programs (HDP) and available in the Library of Congress (LoC) Prints & Photographs (P&P) Reading Room. The collections can be keyword searched on the Library of Congress website: \u00a0<\/em>http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/collection\/hh\/\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u2019d like more information about HABS\/HAER\/HALS photography take a look at our website.<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

www.HABSphoto.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Schafer<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architectural Photography<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ventura, California<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ph: 415-857-HAER<\/sub><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,14,20,6,8,15,16,17,66],"tags":[188,190,189,193,213,195,183,182,200,212,74,35,22,107,23,206,24,197,94,208,31,201,221,219,220,217,55,99,198,216,185,96,186,122,218,47,210,191,214,207,199,211,215,194,28,205,184,203,187,204,196,209,65,202,192],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architectural-photography","category-documentary-photography","category-film","category-habs-haer-hals","category-haer","category-historic-preservation","category-photography","category-photography-technique","category-travel","tag-188","tag-1000-360","tag-189","tag-5x7-negative","tag-apiwatw","tag-arch","tag-big-sur","tag-bixby-bridge","tag-black-and-white","tag-blog","tag-book","tag-engineering","tag-habs","tag-habsphoto-com","tag-haer","tag-haer-like","tag-hals","tag-hdp","tag-heritage-documentation-programs","tag-highway-1","tag-historic","tag-hp5","tag-internet","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-journal","tag-large-format-photography","tag-library-of-congress","tag-loc","tag-magazine","tag-mill-creek-bridge","tag-mitigation","tag-monterey-county","tag-national-park-service","tag-newsletter","tag-nps","tag-pacific-coast-highway","tag-panorama","tag-panoramic","tag-pch","tag-photo","tag-photo-tips","tag-photographic","tag-poison-oak","tag-preservation","tag-public-benefit","tag-rainbow-bridge","tag-schaefer","tag-schaphoto-com","tag-shafer","tag-span","tag-sr-1","tag-stephen-schafer","tag-steve","tag-two-part-panorama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":257,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/habs-haer-hals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}