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.

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.

Fireplace Lounge

The Fireplace Lounge on Samuel Blvd., in East Dallas.  A classic roadhouse, but in the city across the street from a golf course.

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

Intersection, Near Guthrie, Kentucky

Intersection of US 41 and US 79, west of Guthrie, Kentucky.

Repurposed Movie Theater

The Ark of Safety Holiness Church, Singleton Blvd., Dallas, Texas

Economic Abandonment

A former AMC Theater recently closed in Dallas near I35 and Walnut Hill Lane.

Denton Drive, Dallas, Texas

Denton Drive, between Royal and Walnut Hill Lanes

The Tyler Roughnecks from 2001

The Tyler Roughnecks were a minor league team playing out of Mike Carter Field in Tyler, TX when I photographed them on a warm Sunday.  The hands are the catcher's, Ronnie Deck.  He is currently the bullpen catcher for the Baltimore Orioles.  More of the Roughnecks and Mike Carter Field can be seen here.

Portraits - Body and Soul

Jazz guitarist Jim Shannon - his website - This image is part of a new project, portraits of jazz musicians, each playing the the same tune, Body and Soul, a standard written in 1930 by  Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and Johnny Green. Good references would be Coleman Hawkins improvised version recorded in 1939 and recordings by Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn.

Portraits

A client asked me to make some portraits of their staff. Simple lighting: a battery powered Elinchrom shot through a white umbrella, balanced with the window light. (Steven Goss, Principal at Blackbird Studio Architects in Dallas) 

Exhibition at Amarillo College

I have a solo exhibit coming up at Amarillo College's Southern Light Gallery, 2011 W. Washington Street in Amarillo, TX.  The show will run from January 18th to February 19th.  It is recent work from the Built Environment series, all Texas images.

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)

New Work

I am continuing to look at the flat, open spaces around North Texas, particularly vacant lots and what is adjacent to them. These near the intersection of the LBJ Freeway and I35. 

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