Shots on Location
Seriously, the Last of the Steam Powered Trains
This is the last of the old train photos I have . . . until the next time I got home to Scranton.
On another note, I maybe posting regularly or not. I am attending the Chief Petty Officers Academy and spend most of my time on base doing the military thing. It’s quite the contrast to my alternate life of the cool world traveler photographer for a hip fine beverage magazine, but it pays the bills. So, if you don’t hear from me on Twitter or the site is a few days off, I’m getting an ejumacation and learning how to be a Chief.
Back on the Chain Gang?
Maybe its the fence, maybe it’s the bacon induced coma Erin has just put me in, but for some reason the Pretender’s “Chain Gang” comes to my mind when I see this photo?
Sonoma Valley Airport Part 3: Into the Great Wide Open
This is one of two Curtiss Jennys still flying today. The other is at The Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in NY.
Last of the Old Trains
This was taken about three years ago at the Steam Town Mall in Scranton Pa. Yes, the town where the show The Office takes place. Last I heard it was one of the largest antique train depots in the country. This could be wrong but hey, it’s the internets.
Sonoma Valley Airport: Part 2
This was one of the first photos I took while wondering around Sonoma Valley Airport. When I took this, there wasn’t a person to be found, so just started shooting not knowing if I was going to get kicked out.
Boulevard Cafe
This is a new local restaurant in Petaluma, CA called the Boulevard Cafe. The service is outstanding and the local eggs they serve are off the frickin chain.
Sonoma Valley Airport
1929 Dehavilland Tiger Moth
This is the first of a series of posts on the vintage aircraft of the Sonoma Valley Airport. There are five airports through out the US that are strictly for vintage planes and this is one of them. Another airport like Sonoma Valley is in Rhinebeck, NY the home of Cole Palen and his Flying Circus. Even the name is cool.
About 20 years ago (or so), my Dad took me to see this flying circus. It was amazing to see the original, vintage, what have you, planes fly from World War One and even earlier. And it was just that, a flying circus. There were the Model A cars driving around packed with Keystone cops, and vintage aircraft buzzing the runway dropping flower sacks in mock bomb runs, it was great.
But this is the Sonoma Valley. I originally wanted to get some shots of a business that gives airplane rides, but they weren’t open when I showed up. So, I wandered around the airport taking photos not knowing anything about the airport, all the while waiting for the FBI to show up wondering what I was doing. I had no idea this was a vintage aircraft only airport. The first hanger I cam across that was open, was had a 1945 Stearman painted as a trainer, a Piper J3 Cub and some Russian looking plane. I took a few photos in the hanger and came across a mechanicand figured I should ask if I could take some photos. He said it was cool to take the photos, which was great since I was already in the hanger.
Everyone I had met this morning was great. All were either pilots or/and builders/restorers. It turns out that every second Saturday, the open all the hangers so people could see the history that lies within.
I will be posting photos of this shoot in the upcoming weeks. I will more than likely rotate between the restaurant shoot I did this afternoon and the airport.
Rome If You Want To
Erin and I love to travel the world. We’ve been all over Europe and I could show you the same old photos of the Coliseum, but instead I thought I would mix it up a bit and show something different.
On a completely different note, it seems that my titles for the posts are song title related which is a total coincidence. This is where I can delve into how music affects the subconscious, but sociology/psychology is not my bag. However, it does seem to affect the search patters for the site being that Food Aperture shows up more for people searching for music more than photography. There’s nothing like looking for a Stooges song and getting a search result with a photo of a power substation. Take that internets.
For Boston
Boston Public Library
Boston is one of my favorite East Coast cities. There are a million things to do and see. The historical and cultural aspects Boston has to offer are simply amazing. From the Drop Kick Murphys, the Mighty Mighty Bostones to Boston College, and my favorite MIT, Boston seems sadly forgotten compared to (former) CBGB, NYU, Columbia in New York City.
Tall Toad Music
First and foremost I would like to thank Charlie, the owner of Tall Toad Music, for allowing me to photography his store. Back in 1996, when I was a lowly E-3 in the Coast Guard attending school at Training Center Petaluma, I would visit the store every so often. The music store hasn’t changed much in 14 years and in a way I am glad to see that.
Marin County Fire Department
After living in the Pacific Northwest for a few years, you become accustomed to the rain and the occasional freak snowstorm. So you could imagine how much of a shock it was to move to Northern California where during the summer it can get to 104 degrees and the surrounding grass is brown from a lack of water.
So you could imagine my lack of surprise when I looked out my kitchen window to see a fire one evening. It was quite the site for the new comers to the area. Luckily the fire was relatively small and the fire crews were very quickly on scene to douse the flames. We did become a little worried when our complex started to get buzzed by the spotter planes and helicopters.
It is because of the professionalism of the Marin and Sonoma County Fire Departments that our house and the homes closer to the fire did not become a statistic lumped in with the fires further south.
Being that its the off season for wild fires, I was able to meet up with the Hicks Valley Station of the Marin County Fire Department. This lonely fire house is set in a valley what seems like in the middle of nowhere. I pass the station every day on the way to and from work, thinking about the fire fighting gear I used while stationed onboard a cutter, I figured the station would make for some good photography.
