Posts By pcalvin
Former Braniff Airline Headquarters, Love Field, Dallas, Texas
I have been passing this for years. I shot photos inside when Braniff was in business, covered the Caulder plane, the first Braniff Concord flight and flown on Braniff regularly to Mexico.
The former Braniff International Airways headquarters at Love Field in Dallas, Texas. It spent some time as Dalfort Aerospace, but has been empty since 2003. It has a 6-bay hangar, covering 13,000 sq. m. (140,000 sq. ft.) can accommodate 6 narrow-body aircraft. Its shops, warehouses and administrative offices occupy an area of 33,445 sq. m. (360,000 sq. ft). Tom Braniff’s airline opened up air travel to Latin America and commissioned Alexander Caulder paint one of their planes in the 1973. (A model of that plane now sits in the Frontiers of Flight Museum also located at Love Field.)
Heat and Control Building, Flower Mound, Texas
Sometimes the best images are the last of the day, the less obvious becomes obvious, and the eye discovers what was always there. (Heat and Control Building, Flower Mound, TX, for Blackbird Studio Architects)
Infrastructure
New construction over Loop 12, Irving, Texas
After the Demolition
The former site of Texas Stadium in Irving, Texas. The stadium was demolished after the Dallas Cowboys moved to Arlington this season. I photographed this site a year ago before the the stadium was imploded.
Dallas from the Parking Garage
I have been looking at the city from the parking garage when I arrive to teach at the UCD for Texas A&M-Commerce. Last Thursday I finally made some photographs from there while I sent my class out to shoot the city at night. Billboard style advertising, acres of asphalt and concrete, and the flat North Texas landscape beyond the city center.
HWY US 69 in Oklahoma
Agrophilia
New Work
I am continuing to look at the flat, open spaces around North Texas, particularly vacant lots and what is adjacent to them. These near the intersection of the LBJ Freeway and I35.
Looking at the Landscape Over Time
I am preparing an image maker presentation for the Society for Photographic Education South Central Regional Conference in October titled “Don’t Lose Your Way”. The black and white image above will be the first in the Keynote slide show, one that I made as an undergraduate at Ohio University. I had hitchhiked to Cincinnati where I saw this expanse of asphalt and the row of older Ohio industrial city style homes at the top of the frame. The thing is, I am still looking at these things today. I have returned to look at the landscape in much the same way I did then, I have found my way back. The image below was made last year in downtown Dallas, a parking lot with the W Hotel, high rise condos and four story apartments that surround the American Airlines Center.