Renwick House
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 26mm ISO 200 3- bkts f/11 Lr4, HEP2, TpzSim; PsCS6
After ten years of marriage and the death of her husband, Helen Goodwin Renwick left Iowa and brought her son to Claremont, California. Mrs. Renwick then built her house in 1900 where she raised her son and became a philanthropist to Pomona College. Mrs. Renwick died at the age of 86 in July, 1930, bequeathing her home to Pomona College. From the obituary published July 31, 1930 in the Claremont Courier I found this charming line about Mrs. Renwick:
Following a romance of unusual charm she was married to William Renwick in 1879 and together they enjoyed their home and a companionship in Davenport, Iowa for 10 years.
The Renwick House now serve as the offices of the Pomona College Annual Giving department.
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Seaver House Detail
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 28mm ISO 200 1/8 f/22 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
This was the home of the Carlton Seaver family and was originally constructed on a site at Holt and Garey Avenue in Pomona, California in 1900. All of Carlton Seaver’s children a attended Pomona College, Mr. and Mrs. Seaver and subsequent generations of the Seaver family have been major donors to Pomona College. The Seaver house was willed to the college by Carlton Seaver’s widow and moved to its current site on the campus of Pomona College at 305 Campus Avenue, Claremont, California. Seaver House now serves as the location of the Pomona College Alumni Relations Office.
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Sumner House
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 35mm ISO 200 3-bkts f/13 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
Sumner House (1887) is the oldest home in Claremont, California. This Queen Anne Victorian was the home of Reverend Charles Burt Sumner, once of the founders of Pomona College. The house was moved to its current location, First Street and College Avenue approximately ten years after construction and serves as the anchor point of the southern perimeter of the college. The home is owned by Pomona College and it is now used as a guest house for the college.
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A Quiet Campus Sidewalk
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 24mm ISO 320 1/8 f/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
It is late afternoon on the sidewalk under the shade of mature trees lining Sixth Street on the campus of Pomona College, Claremont, California. The building is Clark Hall V, a student residence, the tower in the background is Smith Tower which has both a clock and carillon. By local tradition the carillon chimes at 47 minutes after every hour.
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Bridges Auditorium – West Facade
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 10mm ISO 320 3-bkts f/11 Lr4, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS6
A head-on shot of Bridges Auditorium situated behind a plaza on the east end of Marston Quad at Pomona College, Claremont, California. Bridges faces the Carnegie (Library) building which sits across College Avenue at the west end of Marston Quad.
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Bridges Auditorium Late Aftenoon
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 15mm ISO 320 1/250 f/11 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
The Maybel Shaw Bridges Music Auditorium was designed by architect William Templeton and constructed in 1931 at a cost of $600,000; it seats 2,500. This view s of the north and west facades of the auditorium which sits on the eastern edge of Marston Quad, at Pomona College, Claremont, California.
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Smiley Hall
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 20mm ISO 320 3-bkts f/11 :Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
Albert K. Smiley Hall (1908). The first residence hall built on the campus of Pomona College, Claremont, California. This is a great campus for walking around and enjoying and appreciating the lush landscaping that the college buildings are set in. Clean and quiet, away from the hustle and bustle of the Southern California megalopolis.
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2:42 P.M. At Claremont Station
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 29mm ISO 200 1/160 f/13 Lr4, TpzSim; PsCS6
Eastbound Metrolink train 859 rolls up to the platform.
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2:40 P.M. At Claremont Station
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 32mm ISO 200 3-bkts f/13 Lr4,HEP1,TpzSim; PsCS6
All is quiet at the station on a spring afternoon until…
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2:38 P.M. At Claremont Station
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 18mm ISO 200 3-bkts f/14 Lr4, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS6
Originally constructed in 1927 by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad in the Mission Colonial/Spanish Colonial Revival style, Claremont Station is now a embarcation point for the Metrolink San Bernardino commuter rail line. The station, on First Street at the base of Harvard Avenue in Claremont Village is staffed by Foothill Transit (the local public transportation compan) and serves as a transfer point for bus riders.
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Memorial To An Education Uncompleted & A Life Cut Short
Nikon D7000 1-200mm @ 18mm ISO 800 3-bkts f/13 Lr4, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS6
I love these doors, I love the drama of the entire threshold. This is the Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music (Little Bridges), Pomona College, Claremont, California. The Mission style building was designed by Myron Hunt and built in 1915. It had it latest renovation in 2001. The building was a gift from Mr. and Mrs. Appleton Shaw Bridges in honor of their daughter Mabel Shaw Bridges ’08, who died after an illness in 1907.
Halls Of Academia
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 18mm ISO 800 3-bkts f/11 Lr4, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS5
The view looking south through Lebus Court at Pomona, College, Claremont, California. Lebus Court was designed by Myron Hunt and erected in 1915 at the rear of Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music (“Little Bridges”). Lebus Court, along with Rembrandt Hall houses the Department of Art & Art History at the college. The building directly south is Harwood Hall, the first residential hall constructed on the campus in 1921.
In relative terms, the buildings and campus of Pomona College offer some of the most mature architecture and landscaping to be found in the Southern California area since they have been standing roughly 100 years. This test of time is quite an achievement in a locale that has historically been ever evolving, ever changing during the past century and a half. I really like the feeling I get from the stonework and the building structure and texture in this image, from the lush, fully mature greenery. Pomona is a great campus for walking and enjoying green things, with many mature and majestic trees. I have never been comfortable or inspired in schools and classrooms, never fully engaged in classroom learning, but being on the campus of Pomona College I get a great feeling of contentment and permanence. This rendering makes me feel good.
The Carnegie Legacy
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 20mm ISO 800 3-bkts f/11 Lr4, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS5
The Carnegie Library on the campus of Pomona College was opened in 1908 after receiving a grant from the Carnegie Foundation and is one of two academic libraries built by the Carnegie Foundation in California. The building on the campus in Claremont, California was repurposed after the present campus library was completed in 1953 and now is known as the Carnegie Building and houses Social Sciences offices and classrooms. The Library was designed by Franklin P. Burnham using reinforced concrete in the Classical Revival style.
Andrew Carnegie one of the wealthiest men that the United States had produced was a Scottish immigrant who began as a worker in a bobbin factory and eventually rose through the railroading and steel industries to become one of the largest philanthropists in American history after he sold Carnegie Steel to J.P. Morgan (who through merger turned it in to United States Steel) and netted the equivalent in 2012 dollars of $6,303,451,104.
Hanging Out #683
Street Life
Nikon D7000 18-135mm @ 100mm ISO 1250 1/125 f/9.0 Lr3, TpzSim; PsCS5
Captured on the street in Claremont, California last May. The scene played out on a weekend afternoon in a small plaza in front of the local bank branch/Starbucks. A quartet of street musicians were set-up and playing in the plaza. Other locals were standing or sitting on lawn chairs. The music was not memorable, nor were my shots of the musicians, but this trio did catch my eye.
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Egress
Nikon D7000 10-24mm @ 13mm ISO 640 3-bkts f/25 Lr3, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS5
This is the Laemmle Theater, hidden away behind a courtyard formed by commercial buildings in Claremont, California. I was attracted by the horizontal and vertical lines, the colors and rectangular shapes, how the vertical elements in the doors played off the vertical building columns.
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A Hero Has Gotta Eat, Too
Nikon D7000 18-135mm @ 22mm ISO 400 3-bkts f/11 Lr3, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS5
Just down the street from the corner pizzeria in Claremont Village is the saloon where the local legends and heros go to relax, refresh and recharge. These may look like mere mortals, and maybe only in their own homes are they heros, or legends only in their own minds, but you never know a book by its cover, and you can’t judge a person just by his looks, only after you have learned of his deeds should you judge a man.
The Corner Pizzeria
Nikon D7000 18-135mm @ 31mm ISO 400 1/400 f/11 Lr3, TpzSim; PsCS5
Located at corner of Yale Avenue and 2nd Street in Claremont Village (Claremont, California) is a staple of any college town, the pizzeria. Where it is likely local merchants and farmers were once conducting monetary transactions with their banker in another time, dough of another kind is being tossed and baked.
The Path To Higher Learning
Nikon D80 10-24mm 14mm ISO 100 f/16 (3 brackets) Lr3 HDR Efex Pro
This was the view looking west from Marston Quadrangle towards the Carnegie Building and Pearsons Hall at Pomona College, Claremont, California yesterday morning. Pomona College was founded in 1887 as the first of the seven institutions that became the Claremont University Consortium. Most of the combined campuses share approximately one square mile of contiguous space in the heart of Claremont California in a green shaded enclave developed from the arid and boulder strewn scrubland that was a part of the San Gabriel Mountains floodplain. With an endowment calculated at $1.299 Billion in 2006, one can be fairly certain that this green oasis will continue to be maintained at a high level, well in to the future.
I captured this image and a few others between 11:00 and 11:45 yesterday morning as part of my HDR learning experience. I would have liked to have been able to capture more than the three automatic brackets delivered by the camera, but that would be very difficult under present circumstances. I restrained myself from over processing during tone mapping, but Judy thinks I went too far with this image. I did push things, but I wanted to bring out a lot of detail and emphasis with the foliage. Some of the intricacies of Lightroom have been confounding me, so a lot of time is spent on trial and error and reviewing tutorials.
We have just begun exploring the image capture opportunities in Claremont, and will be returning in the future.
