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During the 1970s and 1980s I was employed by numerous publishers and advertising agencies to take photographs of various industrial settings. I took photos of anything from scientists in laboratories to meat inspectors to factories such the Ford Motor Company along with locations like the Port of Portland ship repair facilities and electric energy producing windmill farms in California.
 
The assignments allowed me access the places I would have never been able to visit otherwise.
 
I really enjoyed these subjects. The enormous size of a ship’s propeller compared to the workers intrigued me. The workers were dwarfed by the size of the ship’s prop. Watching workers on the Ford assembly line caused me to wonder what Henry Ford’s first assembly line looked like and make me appreciate the work these people were doing day after day for their entire career. The wind generators were like a forest of giant metal trees dotting the hillside.
 
It was a time when a company’s information was stored on a computer housed in an entire room instead of a relatively small server rack.
 
This was in the pre-digital camera days, so a technical note here:
 
All the images shown here are scanned from 35mm black and white film negatives or color transparencies. The scanner I own and use isn’t ideally suited for slides or negatives. It does a better job with things like photo prints. The scans aren’t as sharp as the originals and if one tries to sharpen the images up (because they loose some sharpness and quality of the tonal range in the scanning process) it adds an undesirable amount of grain (or “noise” to those familiar with digital terminology). Consequently I find myself apologizing for the scans because they don’t match the sharpness and image quality of the original prints. Suffice to say the originals are tack sharp and normally, unless the lighting conditions were abominable, without noticeable grain to the extent that 35mm film can be grainless.
 
OK, enough of the technical stuff, on to the photographs.
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  • Home
  • About
  • Clients
  • Projects
    • Abiquiu Livestock Sale
    • Adjective Challenge
    • Aerial Photos
    • Alt Fashion
    • Amish, Kalona, Iowa
    • Cabezon Peak
    • Cerro Pedernal
    • Chicano Park Murals
    • Churches
    • Descansos
    • Design photographs in the style of Charles Sheeler
    • Dogs
    • Lowriders
    • Goofing Around with mime Mark Wenzel
    • Industry
    • Infrared Photos
    • International Center of Photography
    • Isolated Trees
    • Isolation Photos
    • Lady of Guadalupe
    • Landscape Photos
    • Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
    • Matachines de Alcalde
    • Moon Photos
    • Moving Arts Espanola
    • Murals in Espanola, New Mexico
    • Moving Landscapes
    • New Orleans Street Photography
    • Northern New Mexico
    • Norteno Artist Portraits
    • Panoramic Photos
    • Pic of the Day
    • Portraits
    • San Francisco Chinatown
    • Snow Photos
    • Still Life Photos
    • San Francisco Street Photos
    • Street Photography
    • Surplus Love
    • The Yin/Yang of Families
    • Trailer Landscapes
    • Trees
    • Vintage - Pre -digital photos
  • Selected Writing/Published
    • Behind the Scenes at the Circus
    • ​​Book Review: "Orale! Lowrider: Custom Made in New Mexico"
    • Carlton, Oregon
    • Cumbres Toltec
    • Day of the Dead, Albuquerque's Marigold Parade
    • Fog Smoke Haze in Photos
    • Gordon Tooley, Apple Guru
    • Indian Market Native Costumes
    • In Praise of Kit Lenses
    • In Praise of Manual Lenses
    • Instagram
    • Jeff Brock and Bombshell Betty
    • John Lea's Painted Truck
    • Kaleidoscope Photos
    • Pet Store Animal Photos
    • Rocket Heads Jewelry
    • Scale in Photography
    • National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
    • Rio Arriba: A New Mexico County
    • Tibetan Monk Sand Painting
    • United Farm Workers
    • Why I Take Photographs
    • WWII Reenactment
  • Archive