Give Up A Little Love For The Old Girl.
Prowler Roadster inviting suitors, American Classics Car Show, NHRA Museum, Pomona, California 21-Oct-2012.
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Red Detroit Muscle
As seen at the American Classics Car Show, NHRA Motor Sports Museum, Pomona, California 21-Oct-2012
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Black Vette #26
American Classics Car Show, NHRA Museum, Pomona, California 21-Oct-2012
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Black Vette #23
American Classics Car Show, NHRA Museum, Pomona, California 21-Oct-2012
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A Pair Of Coupes
American Classics Car Show, NHRA Museum, Pomona, California 21-Oct-2012
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Red Coupe #5
American Classics Car Show, NHRA Museum, Pomona, California 21-Oct-2012
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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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The Journey Begins Here
Nikon D7000 18-200mm @ 20mm ISO 320 3-bkts f/8 Lr4, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS6
These gate posts are not only a starting point for young minds inquisitive and motivated to expand their “book learning” knowledge and exercise their intellect, but they also represent a departure point from the sheltered world of youth and academia to begin the exploration of life throughout the wider world. Open without any obstacles they present an opportunity to those who would boldly cross their threshold in search of awareness beyond their immediate radius.
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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.
Proud But Forlorn
PNikon D7000 18-135mm @ 26mm ISO 200 3-bkts f/11 Lr3, HEP!, TpzSim; PsCS5
The Amtrak station in Pomona, California, quietly standing as a monument to the heyday of long transcontinental rail travel. This station services the Sunset Limited (running between Los Angeles and New Orleans) which passes through three times a week in each direction. This was the most under utilized station in the Amtrak system in 2010, with an average of 4 passengers leaving or arriving per day.
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Urban Study #152
Nikon D7000 18-135mm @ 58mm ISO 200 1/60 f/18 +2EV -2EV Lr3, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS5
The viewpoint for this image is looking across the intersection and across Garey Avene, from the northwest corner of Garey and Second Street, Pomona, California.
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No Fear
Nikon D7000 18-135mm @ 44mm ISO 200 3-bkts f/18 Lr3, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS5
The view towards the west from the Metrolink commuter rail platform at the downtown, Pomona, California station at 3:33:44 P.M., December 6, 2011, as reconstructed in my mind. As I think about man’s capacity to achieve great and significant works through his intellect and industry, and his capacity to still manage to reek destruction upon himself and the Earth. And as I think about the fearlessness of the ignorant and innocent.
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Afternoon Freight #109
Nikon D7000 18-135mm @ 44mm ISO 200 3-bkts f/18 Lr3, HEP1, ASSA3; PsCS5
A late afternoon freight train passing through Pomona, California, rendered as an oil painting. This is actually the tail-end of the train, these locomotives are pushing, assisting the front-end locomotives which are pulling the train.
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Transit Walkway
Nikon D7000 18-135mm @ 32mm ISOm200 3-bkts f/11 Lr3, HEP1, TpzSim; PsCS5
The structure is the pedestrian over crossing at the downtown Pomona, California rail station. The two towers, in adaddition to serving as structural supports for the bridge also house elevators; the two structures jutting out from the towers are stair wells. The dark objects discernable passing below the bridge on the tracks are black tank cars which made up a large part of a freight consist passing through.
In addition to my usual work with Lightroom, HDR Efex Pro and Topaz Simpify stylizing this image, I also used Photoshop to remove an automobile that was in the left foreground.
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Righteous Red Rod
Nikon D7000 18-135mm @ 31mm ISO 640 1/200 f/22 Lr3, PsCS5; TpzSim
All is right in the world for the man or woman who can park their lovingly hand crafted red hot rod next to a shady tree on a hot summer afternoon, pull up some lawn chairs, a cooler of cold beverages, and shoot the breeze with other automotive aficionados. This scene was captured at the “Old Pomona Hot Rod & Custom Car Show” held at Thomas Plaza just off of Second Street in Pomona, California on July 23, 2011.
This was another one of my painterly exercises achieved using the Topaz Labs Simplify plug-in with Photoshop. While this rendering is obviously a far cry from a purist’s concept of a straight documentary photograph, to me it conveys the beauty of the automobile, and a sense of the person who handcrafted it and a feeling for the time and place where it was displayed on both an analytical and an emotional level.
Green Hot Rod
Nikon D7000 18-135mm @ 32mm ISO 640 3-bkts f/22 Lr3, HEP1; PsCS5
This is hot rod week at the blog and I am featuring two rods captured on July 2 at the “Old Pomona Hot Rod and Custom Car Show” at Thomas Plaza just off of Second Street in Pomona, California. Initial processing from RAW was done in Lightroom which was also used for sharpening and noise reduction. Nik’s HDR Efex Pro merged and tone mapped the three captures and Photoshop was used to add brightness and saturation adjustment layer that was then masked out of the green hot rod.
