I am pretty sure the iconic OKC Farmers Public Market building has been photographed by dozens, if not hundreds of photographers. I myself have photographed the building and the surrounding area several times. This is my first time photographing it with my Toyo View VX-125 4×5 film camera in black and white. I can imagine […]
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Kay was out of town for the weekend, and I spent much of Sunday afternoon driving around Oklahoma looking for cool subjects to photograph. Grain elevators always interest me, and I zeroed in on this one in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. When I saw this old locomotive sitting idle near the elevator, I knew I had to […]
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I have photographed this old building in Guthrie, Oklahoma several times, both on assignment and as a hobby. This is the first time I have photographed it with a 4×5 view camera. I was able to use the rise of the front standard on my Toyo View VX-125 large format film camera to keep the […]
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I have always been fascinated with grain elevators and in fact, I wrote and photographed a story titled “Skyscrapers of the Prairie” for Oklahoma Living Magazine. I had photographed this grain elevator for that story back in 2015, but the photo did not make the final edit. Recently I was back in El Reno with […]
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During my recent morning photo session in Guthrie, my primary target was this old bar. It is on a backlot far away from most of the other cool buildings. To my knowledge, it has been operated as the same business for about the past 25 years, maybe longer. Sometimes I see a few cars around […]