Foggy Morning Sunrise

Fresno, California

Happy Days

I hope your holiday has been filled with love, laughter, and the friendliest of faces...

A Most Fantastical Morning Walk

A chilly morning in Northern California wine country was warmed by the company of family, and beauty in all directions...

Happy (Almost) Winter!

I know we're not quite there yet, but I think it's cold enough to qualify...don't you?

Super Styles

The Pawnbroker

What a place... Detroit.

40% Off Holiday Sale + Pinterest Gift Guide

Hello and Happy Monday! I hope you had a peacefully rejuvenating holiday weekend.

This week, get 40% Off all photographs (including prints already on sale) with Coupon Code "Holiday40". Shop Roadside Photographs on etsy or Able + Baker.

And...

What was I doing at 5:00 this morning? Creating a Pinterest Holiday Gift Guide! (Do you love Pinterest as much as I do?)

My Holiday Gift Guide features gifts and stocking stuffers from $2 - $160, and includes a few of my photographs and some Able + Baker originals, as well as an array of items to love from other Independent Designers, Artists, and Vintage sellers.

If you're looking to support Independent Designers and small businesses this holiday season, my Pinboard may be a fun place to start.

I'll be adding more items throughout the week, including items from fellow Unique LA participants. Have I mentioned that I'm participating in Unique LA this weekend? It's going to be one busy and exciting week!

What is my Gift Guide missing? Send me links of the products you're loving this holiday season... I'd love to see.

Thanks everyone, I hope you have a great day!

Sunlight & Season

Feeling thankful for

Josh. Even when it's not easy, we smile and laugh every day.

Family.
Nieces and nephews, I love love love those faces.
Friends, old and new.
A recently discovered box of old photo albums,
and the wave of memory that came with.
sunlight and warmth
the feel of home
cameras and lenses
music and melody
health and healing
butter, brown sugar, and cinnamon
You, wherever you are, reading this

I hope your holiday is filled with love, warmth, and wonder....

Of the Metropolis

"All great art is born of the metropolis."
-Ezra Pound

Sometimes it's nice to be a passenger...

...because it allows me to take photos like this as we drive by.
(Friends Market, Detroit.)

A Stroll Around Town, Detroit.

Color on a Colorless Day, Detroit.

Train Depot, Detroit.

The Michigan Central Railway was designed by Warren & Wetmore and Reed and Stern, the same firms who designed the Grand Central Terminal in New York. Just a mile from Downtown Detroit, the Depot serviced passengers from 1913 through 1988, although a major decline in traffic began after WWII .

Per our friend Wikipedia:

At the beginning of World War I, the peak of rail travel in the United States, more than two hundred trains left the station each day and lines would stretch from the boarding gates to the main entrance. In the 1940s, more than four thousand passengers a day used the station and more than three thousand people worked in its office tower. Among those who arrived at MCS were Presidents Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelt, actor Charlie Chaplin and inventor Thomas Edison.

To read more on Michigan Central Station's interior stylings and history, click here.