So I begin again.
Terrible storms in OKC two weeks ago, as everyone knows. By the time it got to Tulsa it was just a pretty light show. I shot this photo of the house as the remainder of the storm that devastated Moore passed overhead. My dog wasn’t even nervous and he’s always nervous!
If it’s cool.
I’m going to just toss out some images I’ve been keeping around because I like them but don’t fit any particular theme etc..
Sunset over Muskogee
Hanging out with friends and watching the sunset over the Kerr Waterway. Not a bad view off the back porch – don’t cha know.
The Harley from Heaven – I could ride this!
Bumped into it parked in an alley when shooting an assignment in Bartlesville.
My Neighbor – This is a Bared Owl sitting on the peak of my shed.
Pulled into the drive and it was just sitting up there so I grabbed a quick photo. Then put the longer lens on, then the BIG lens (800 mm) he just sat and watched me work.
I love these birds! Keep the mice and vermin down in the neighborhood (small dogs and feral cats as well). Good Neighbors in my book!
Hot – exercising in the 100+ Degree heat.
My take on doing chin ups in the heat wave we have had this year
Recently I covered a rally in support of the DREAM Act.
I kind of expected it to be the same chanting and ranting most rallies turn into. It wasn’t. I actually stayed and listened to the speakers and their message.
These are the photos I liked.
A Dedicated teacher and a very impassioned champion for the kids.
The other day I was shooting an assignment at a Sand Springs company that produces tubing. Lots of it!
We were getting a tour of the facilities with the two owners and I was supposed to get photographs of these folks inspecting their plant. It was LOUD in there – steel dropping to the floor, machinery noise and just the overall loud banging, grinding, and clatter of a manufacturing facility.
You couldn’t really speak to the owners (father/daughter) well so I would just motion them together when we got to a visually interesting area of the plant to shoot their photo and figured that would have to do.
This factory was cool looking on the inside. Steel and steam. It looked like something out of the 1900’s.
I didn’t get to poke around much because of safety reasons but there was this one machine that we got to look at. It takes flat heated steel and bends it around to make a tube (pipe) and then welds it into place. All done in a single pass. The machine was huge, 150’ feet long with a running series of adjustment wheels along its length to fine tune the work.
When we got down off the platform I looked back and the workmen who had disappeared for the VIP tour had returned and were chatting. I stepped aside from the tour and shot a few photos of the two main areas of the machine. One long lens, one short.
I set them up as B&W because that more honestly represents the look and feel of the place.
What I’d love would be a day inside this factory to make photos!
Just Two Kids Chillin out at the Riverparks and doing what they do best. Try to destroy a bronze statue.
I was out shooting “Development on the River” for the Journal Record last week. It’s a pretty dry topic ~ believe me. Buildings along the Arkansas river, abandoned steel mill, blah blah..
Couple hours into this thrilling assignment I went by the new Blue Rose Pub being built on the Riverparks. I found a sand bar that extended into the river and walked out to shoot a series of photos back onto that development (which will be cool by the way ~ I promise) and get my Key image for the article.
Sweet. Story done!
Then like it always seems to happen when walking back to the car I saw these two kids climbing all over the bronze statue of a buffalo with one of Tulsa’s Iconic buildings in the background. That made the boring assignment better.
When I got the kids names for ID purposes. They didn’t even know each other. They just were just sharing the same space and purpose. Climb the Buffalo ~ Get along!
Excellent!
Worth hours of steel mills
OK ~ I got called out over Independence day about why I’ve quit posting to my blog. To my defense I agrued that I’d had a computer crash and I moved over to a MAC at the same time, plus I’m b
It was explained that was in March, four months ago, so I guess I’m busted.
Unlike the man below, who was taking a break before running his fourth 10 mile lap at the recent TATUR race is shot, I have been lazy. So bowing to the unprecedented pressure applied by my second cousin ( and 2 others ) I’ll start again. :-]
I don’t promise anything – but a view into what I do…
I was up in Ponca City a couple weeks ago for a magazine shoot that was to take the majority of the day. Over lunch a buddy and I walked down main street to check out the the Poncan Theatre. The theatre is one of the oldest buildings in Ponca and is really a gem of a theater. I’d heard it was haunted (isn’t every old building) but wanted to see the place for myself and shoot a few pictures if possible.
Man, it’s like stepping back in time! It looks like theatres are supposed to look… like you see them in Hollywood, you know what I mean? It has red velvet, gold trimmings, stained glass and even a balcony! How cool is that?!
When we told the owners what we were up to they were gracious and give us run of the place. “ Knock yourself out” the lady told me. So we did.
They I shot from the stage looking to the back of the house and from the back corner of the main floor (the picture above) to get the stage and the stained glass in the frame.
We shot the concession stand and then photographed the stair case that run to the balcony… Which are kind of dark and creepy but cool looking. I kept thinking about the ghosts that supposedly haunts the theatre… “People have reported hearing footsteps when nobody else is present, seeing people who disappear quickly afterwards. In the basement, some people have reported hearing the beating of an Indian drum nearby. Also, there is a stain in the ceiling that closely resembles blood. People have made every effort to remove it: washing it, painting over it, etc. But it always comes back after a few days”.
Well I didn’t see any ghosts or blood that day but I could easily see if I were a ghost that this grand old lady of a theatre would be where I would want to rattle my chains!
Stop by if you’re in Ponca. It’ll be the best lunch you’ve had in a while…Rip
http://www.poncantheatre.org/evans_academy.htm
