Tailgating

Tailgating - P-51D Musting in trail behind a North American B-25 Mitchel photograph aircraft. Photographer - Daniel Patterson. Photo used with permission.

1955 Studebaker Pickup Truck - Ethridge, Montana

1955 Studebaker Pickup - Ethridge, Montana. I shot this twice, about four months apart. I think it's a very handsome, though sort of generic looking truck. Certainly, I didn't know Studebaker made a pickup truck till I saw this example. Asahi Pentax SP w/28mm F:3.5 Super Takumar.

Grain Elevator - Collins, Montana

Grain Elevator - Collins, Montana - This facility has a couple mils of track devoted to handling railcars. They seem to arc off into infinity going both directions. Panasonic Lumix DMC LX2 and Asahi Pentax SP w/ 28mm F:2.5 Super Takumar and 20mm F:3.8 Auto Vivitar.

Copper Bar - Price Tower

Olympus 35SP

Leica M4 w/25mm F:3.5 Canon

Leica M4 w/25mm F:3.5 Canon

Panasonic Lumix DMC LX2

Olympus 35SP

Leica M4 w/15mm F:4.5 Voigtlander

Copper Bar - Price Tower, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. The top two floors of the Price Tower are occupied by the Copper Bar and Grill. It doesn't open until about 4:00PM - so when I wandered through around 11:00AM . . . I had it all to myself. I shot with all three cameras. The last photo reflects the atypical layout of the floor. . . It was here that the old Robert Heinlein piece came to mind: "He Built a Crooked House."

Young Wizard

Young Wizard - October 2003. My son Jacob is something of a Harry Potter fan. He even has the requisite scar above the right eyebrow. In his case. it was from colliding with a door jamb when he was three or four years old. I've never read any of the Potter books - but everything I've ever read about them indicate they promote goodness in folks. That's OK with me. Anyone who would ban or burn a Potter book as promoting witchcraft - while still allowing the New York Times (aka "The Grey Whore") to exist, is a raving lunatic. Sony Cybershot DSC-P30

Price Tower - Bartlesville, Oklahoma

The Price Tower - commissioned by Harold C. Price, for use as a corporate headquarters for his Bartlesville company. Frank Lloyd Wright described the Price Tower as "the tree that escaped the crowded forest," referring not only to the building's construction, but also to the origins of its design. The Price Tower is supported by a central "trunk" of four elevator shafts which are anchored in place by a deep central foundation. The nineteen floors of the building are cantilevered from this central core, like the branches of a tree. The outer walls hang from the floors and are partially clad in copper "leaves." The floorplan of the Price Tower centers upon an inlaid cast bronze plaque, bearing the logo of the Price Company and marking the origin of a parallelogram grid upon which all exterior walls, interior partitions and doors, and built-in furniture are placed. The resulting design is a quadrant plan -- one quadrant dedicated for double-height apartments, and three for offices. The materials for the Price Tower are equally innovative for a mid-twentieth-century skyscraper: cast concrete walls, pigmented concrete floors, aluminum-trimmed windows and doors, and patinated embossed and distressed copper panels. The general geometric element is the equilateral triangle, and all lighting fixtures and ventilation grilles are based upon that form while the angled walls and built-in furniture are based on fractions or multiples of the triangular module.
On March 29, 2007, Price Tower was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Department of the Interior.

Leica M-4 w/15mm F:4.5 Voigtlander and 25mm F:3.5 Canon

Prescripton from Hell

Prescription from Hell - Dennison, Ohio: 2006. One of the rituals of working up a patient in an emergency department involves going through all of their medication (if the patient or family can be bothered to bring them). Frequently one is confronted with multiple bottles of the same drug - drugs that were prescribed 5 to 7 years previously - and so forth. The contents of this bottle caught us all by surprise. Sony DSC P30 Cybershot