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Farnsworth’s Porch

When I was in architecture school, we had to draft perspectives by hand using very long straightedges and vanishing points that were (usually) so far away they were literally off the paper. And if you didn’t get it set up the right way from the beginning, you’d end up with a goofy perspective that flattened things to the point that some of the architectural elements became ridiculous.

I was terrible at setting up perspectives back then; it’s good to know that I can still fuck it up, even with a camera! Yay, me!!

Farnsworth House
Plano, Illinois
photographed 6.24.2018

Metropolitan

Maybe you’ll agree that this needed to be in color because of the tension between the warm, yellow light on the right side and the blue-hour light coming in the window on the left.

Metropolitan Barber Shop
Chicago, Illinois
photographed 6.24.2018

Kitchen Snake

All of us here at One Day | One Image strive to show our reader(s) the behind-the-scenes scenes as often as possible. You know how we are. So here’s a restaurant kitchen.

Mama Shelter
Los Angeles, California
photographed 2.19.2017

Cones

A before-dawn hotel lobby had some things of photographic interest, like the candy machines. But even better than the machines were the paper cones on top of them paired with the cone-shaped reflections on the brick wall. Goodness.

Mama Shelter
Los Angeles, California
photographed 2.19.2017

Night

Then there was that time when my friend Al and I were walking down the street in Los Angeles and felt an overwhelming need to stop long enough to get a photo…

Mark Twain Hotel
Los Angeles, California
photographed 2.16.2017