Balch Springs Middle School

I photographed the new Balch Springs Middle School for GSR-Andrade Architects of Dallas. It was a two day, interior, exterior dawn til dusk project, while contractors were finishing, and the teacher and students were moving in.

Dallas Arts District

A short film featuring the Winspear Opera House and the Wyly Theater in the Downtown Dallas Arts District that is being included in this year's Beyond Media Festival in Florence, Italy.

University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Phase 5

I am photographing the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Phase 5, for Omniplan this month.

Photo Books

My two photo books, Dallas,Texas - A Photographic Portrait and Fort Worth, Texas - A PhotographicPortrait are available from the publisher, Twin Lights, as well as Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble and Borders Books.

Former Urban Theater, Dallas, Texas

The former Urban Theater, 7124 Military Parkway, Dallas, TX 75227, which now serves as a laundromat.

New Architectural Portfolio

Architecture - Images by Peter Calvin

Locker rooms, Bishop Lynch High School, Dallas, Texas

Casa Linda Theater, Dallas, Texas

The Casa Linda Theater, Dallas, Texas. Once part of the McClendon chain of indoor and drive-in movie theaters, it has been closed since 1999 and it is unlikely that it will ever show movies again.

Update 12/24/10:  The theater is now scheduled to become a grocery store.  Colorado based Natural Grocers has leased the space and is expected to open in April of 2011.

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)

Chapel in Lewisville, Texas

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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.

Architecture

Architecture in Black and White - Images by Peter Calvin

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.

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

The Tyler Theater

I have been photographing old movie theaters. My interest in them comes from Saturday mornings in downtown Youngstown, Ohio, and the 400-500 seat, single screen neighborhood theaters that are mostly gone in Dallas. (The Esquire, Delman, Wilshire, Granada, etc) The theater in this image is in Tyler, Texas, just off the square. It exists as only the facade, the interior is gone. link to image

Images in Texas Architect

Texas Architect has published images I made of the Watermark Community Church for Omniplan in a portfolio of religious facilities. (page 66 of the March/April 2010 issue) You can see more work from the project here: http://www.petercalvin.com/archtecture.html