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Sidetracked | Vintage Stuff
Personal project time! Old things are consistently refreshing to me. In an area where tearing things down and building new is cool, I take time to see the time capsules before me...
File this under : Obsession | Old Things
I certainly don't expect everyone to get it. Oil lamps, milk glass, gold flakes in mirrors and an operating in-counter mixer will make many folks cringe. Oh, how I love thee. I pore over every detail. I take video and share it with my family. I open levers and doors and see how things work. I Google & eBay once home just to see if other people have found the beauty in the time capsule. I'm hopeful that these treasures don't find their way to a landfill, that a new owner will see the forever-coolness in the old thing. I also hope that in some way, I can capture the incredible time when technology just couldn't seem to get any better. In many ways, it probably didn't.
We continue to invent, discover, evolve and propel our world forward. It's my mission to always appreciate the old. (I'm looking at you, brick phone, Commodore 64 and gold cars... You're next. - I'm sure my camera is on this same list 30+ years from now. )
Keep on keepin' on, old things. You still have my heart.
xoxo,
~d
(O'Keefe & Merritt Contempo Cadillac Oven/Stove - Ad Found Here...)
Sidetracked | San Antonio
Personal project time! When you take photos for a living, it's hard to find personal time to also take more photos and process more photos - but it's a passion, so I need to keep it alive! The Imaging USA conference allowed me to get out and explore San Antonio. It would be a shame to keep these photos collecting digital dust on my hard drive!!
It's been a goal of mine to take on more side projects - for personal and creative growth. Real estate photography has rules... and plenty of them! (Keeping vertical lines straight up and down, pulling detail from the outside in through windows, making sure colors are accurate to depict the true elements of a home... and so forth.) Sometimes it's nice to just be creative and take pictures for the sake of memories and creativity.
"Sidetracked" is a personal goal to keep creating and playing with photography - so I hope to make it a regular feature on the blog. Just to share some of the world as I see it. Enjoy!
San Antonio, Texas - January 2017
I like to attend photo conferences once every few years. Motivational keynote speakers, classes about post-processing, marketing, photography and business are always thought-inducing ways to keep the spark alive. There is not a lot of class time or air time given to the real estate photography industry, so often the courses are relative to the wedding/sports/portrait/family portrait genres. In several ways this helps keep me on my toes because I'll try and apply a newborn lighting class to the same way one might light a detail shot in a house.
Share #1 - THE ALAMO
I didn't want to bring a big fat tripod, but I knew I wanted to have a tripod for nighttime Alamo shots. I found a beautifully perfect travel tripod at the Expo and lugged it around ALL DAY for my nighttime pictures. Totally worth it. Daytime Alamo was okaaaay... lots of people and inside you aren't allowed to take photos. Nighttime Alamo - way less people, love the Crockett Hotel in the backdrop!! (Obviously some vertical line rules don't die easily...)
Nighttime Alamo, Garden at The Alamo, Daytime Alamo, Kickass Ranger at The Alamo