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Barcelona

By Tom Paiva on

First, I want to mention there was an interview done with me for the Blend Images blog.  Have a read, as I discuss my night photography, the film-digital transition, among other things.  http://blog.blendimages.com/2013/01/08/blend-profile-tom-paiva/ In November, I spent a couple of weeks in Spain on holiday.  It was a magical trip.  Of course, I shot a …

Bay Bridge, Fall 2012

By Tom Paiva on

It’s been several months since I made a post, as I was in Spain last month.  As I process those images, I will post a selection of night images. Just before I left, I shot again for two afternoons and evenings on the Bay Bridge.  It has been 4 months since I had been on …

In Portland

By Tom Paiva on

Lately, I’ve been a little lax about posting a new blog, as I have been very busy with commercial work.   Also, I was hoping to shoot and share some new work on the Bay Bridge construction project, but they are at the stage of tensioning the suspension cables to support the bridge itself, and …

Bay Bridge Suspenders

By Tom Paiva on

Last month, it was time to revisit the Bay Bridge and to see how far the project has progressed.  This visit was about the stringing of the “suspenders”, which are the cables that hang from the main cables that will support the bridge roadway from above.  At this point, the end of June, all of …

The Greek Theater and the East

By Tom Paiva on

For this post, I had planned to show some images done at twilight and at night of fireflies (lightning bugs), since I had never tried shooting them before (they are an east coast summertime critter).  I was able to get several of them recorded as they darted about.  Unfortunately, they accidentally got deleted from the …

Chemical Barns

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Over the past few weeks, I have been shooting at some chemical company storage “barns”, which are really long buildings (some 1/4 of a mile long) that store coal and petroleum coke.  Coke is a by-product of the refining of gasoline and looks similar to coal, used in the manufacture of steel and as a …

At the Salton Sea

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Last week I went to the Palm Springs Photo Festival and drove the 40 miles out to the Salton Sea to do some scouting.  It had been years since I photographed along its shores and was curious what was left after all the years of the corrosive water, desert heat, strong winds, vandalism and general …

LACMA’s Big Rock

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One of the hottest stories here in Los Angeles lately has been the moving of a 340 ton granite boulder from a quarry in Riverside to the Mid-Wilshire Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  This boulder will become part of a new exhibit called Levitated Mass.  Here is a diagram of what it will look …

Cable Pulling on the Bay Bridge

By Tom Paiva on

Earlier this month, I was able to continue my shooting on the Bay Bridge reconstruction project, this time working on the bridge deck area during the process of pulling the suspension cables.  This is a potentially dangerous operation, but things were going smoothly that afternoon and evening. This late afternoon shot shows the bundles of …

Closed Auto Dealership Series

By Tom Paiva on

First, a happy new year to you all. Over the past year, I have been working on a major project photographing the state of closed auto dealerships in Los Angeles.  I started this series a year ago, after reading that GM and Chrysler shut down almost 3,000 dealers nationwide in the previous two years, not …

Industrial Location in Long Beach

By Tom Paiva on

With business a bit slow this time of year, I decided to re-visit a location I shot at between 1995 and 2004 at the Port of Long Beach.  This facility loads bulk materials such as potash, sodium sulfite and petroleum coke onto ships.  There are rail cars and conveyor belt systems all over the yard, …