Posts in Category: built environment
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
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.
The Fourth of July in Texas
Something for the Fourth of July: a fireworks stand on I30 between Dallas and Commerce, Texas.The Style Station
One of the most neglected photographic accessories is the brake pedal on your car. I have been passing the Style Station on Interstate 35 south of Dallas for a couple of years and finally stopped to make a photograph. They sell vintage clothing and seem to collect Toyota minivans from the 80’s.DART Light Rail
Signs of the Economy
42 acres at the corner of Walnut Hill and US 75, Central Expressway in Dallas, Texas. A large apartment complex was demolished to make room for an ambitious mixed-use, high end development. The land has been taken back by the lenders and they are trying to sell it to recover the more than $40 million they have invested in it. link to image
Main St. Theater in Nacogdoches, TX
Here is another of these closed cinemas, this one in Nacogdoches, Texas. It is for lease and next door to a thrift shop. link to image