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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Solitude in stone...


Growing up in Carthage Missouri it was made known early on that I lived in the "Limestone Capital of the World", which for years only meant that there were a lot of rocks around. At 16 and a new driver, I found the "Quarry Quarter", a strip of road out in the country, that ran past a VERY large hole in the earth that Limestone was quarried from and turned into marble by Carthage Marble. The "quarter mile" had been marked off and that became one of two locations were you could find out how fast your parents car was. It was obvious that you had to run North as if you ran South you would run into the "T" at the start, and crash. You also didn't want to veer to the East as you would go over the rim of the quarry and drop a hundred feet or so onto a limestone floor. That happened once without good results.

In addition to Carthage Marble, another company, Locarni Marble, was located just south and across the street. Locarni furnished the building trade "Art Marble" of various colors and origins. Absolutely stunning marble was finished by them and sent all over the United States and Canada. Recently the company closed and I got permission from the Real Estate Agent to enter the buildings and photograph the working and storage areas. The buildings and areas are protected by video surveillance to prevent theft and damage from vandals. It is interesting that the cameras also have night vision. These are some of the images from the session.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Liberty Laundry

I had the distinct pleasure of photographing a new Laundry service location here in Tulsa. Liberty Laundry's facility is on South Delaware and is a "state of the art" facility. They offer a self serve or drop off service and this is the third location within the chain. I love to photograph chrome and this location is loaded with it. Just a really clean look that photographs well....I love my job...



Wednesday, March 19, 2014

WOW !!!! Topped 14,000 !!!

Thanks to everyone for having the interest in my Blog top put me over the 14,000 views that I have gotten. Who would have ever thought that such ramblings and misspellings would create such an audience.....Hope you like the imagery and tales also. 

Family history.....

A friend of mine purchased a 1966, 427 Corvette convertible, several years ago and I told him that I had the perfect location to shoot it at. We met there, about 175 miles away, and waited for the light to get right. As it turned out one of his relatives, uncle I believe, had painted the original sign on the building behind the car. After speaking with him a couple of weeks ago and asking about the car, he told me he had sold it. Once again an image becomes family history.

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Been gone...Now back..

It's been a wild first of the year...I have been working in Missouri on a project that won't be done till June, and have had no time to sit down. I came across the real definition of a Shoe Tree that I thought I should share.
There has to be a story behind this.....