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Architectural Images - Sacramento - Roseville - Northern California

Photo above: This beautiful 3/4 scale model of Chuck Yeager's speed plane sat atop a "fake" control tower at Ace's Restaurant in Sacramento (at Interstate 80 & Madison by the Holiday Inn Holidome.) Notice how the control tower window shows Army Air Corps personnel dressed in World War II style uniforms!

I took this photo a few months before a rare micro-tornado damaged the airplane's fiberglass body. When the plane was taken down for repair, insurance company Nazis ordered the owners not to raise it back up again. The beautiful model's current whereabouts is unknown to me.

 

 

Architectural image at leflt: The bold, beautiful, incredible art deco architecture of this restaurant exterior photographed by Doug.

Image at right:  Exterior view of a restaurant in Roseville, California, photographed at night.

Image at left: First Covenant Church in Sacramento - near Rancho Cordova, California. It's a well respected local church known for straightforward, gimmick-free theology. Architecturally it is also straightforward - basically just a concrete box.

As a challenge Doug strove to make a straightforward building look dramatic. So he photographed it from the east side in late afternoon, heavily backlit with the sun just above it. Oblique sun lighting plus a curved walkway combined to give Doug's photo dramatic impact.

Above: Beautiful night view of a US Navy training ship illuminated by a combination of electronic flash, floodlights and street lamps. I photographed this scene trying three different lighting arrangements and three different camera angles. The outcome results were okay, pretty good, and fantastic. The version above is the final choice.

Check out the original test shot for this scene! Click here...

 


 

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