Houses In All Shapes and Forms

 Hello folks,

I wanted to switch this up a tad big this week and instead of my usual landscape or nature photography, I wanted to show off some of the very cool houses that I have  come across in my life. I hope you like them as most of them are of low quality photography with an old cheap cel phone or many years ago with a cheap camera.

I wanted to start off with my trip last summer up to Portland, Oregon where I spent a month working. I love the trees with all the shade that they provide and this city reminded me a lot of Sacramento, California for that fact.

This house here I made a bid to paint it as it was for sale and really needed it. It sat right next to a little creek 

I love the streamline old Victorians that I came across including this one.

NorthEast Portland found these two killer old houses not too far from where I was staying. And, there were a lot of these type of old houses.

 Here was a Spanish style house that I found really nice.

 And this little beauty was stashed away in the foliage hiding from the brutal heat of the summer day.

 

This was a pretty cool apartment building with some years on it.

 

Another nice family home not too far from my crash pad.

Now, as I travel elsewhere I shall mix this up with some humor... Like this temporary home for a wandering bear they are always attempting to trap right behind my shack here in El Portal, California where I am residing for six months while working for the National Park Service.

Now this is not a house for sure but, it is the boom truck I used to paint a McMansion in a vineyard in Napa which the day before we were finished burnt to the ground and toasted all of my paint grip equipment that took me years to accumulate. Sadly...well rather disgustingly, the contractor I was working for did not check the box on his insurance policy that said he would be covered for new residential building work and so I lost everything and the bum would not cover my loss. One of the reasons I ended up back here working for the Park Service as a painter.

This little beauty was my house on one of my many journeys to the USA in summertime and here it is in a nasty little park in Utah which they led me to believe was just down the road from Zion NP. Alas, it was a two hour drive away from there but had a great swimming lake that I utilzed to beat back the horrible heat of the day.

Here I am taking my favorite beer(Sierra Nevada Torpedo) while crashing at yet another buddy's house in Vacaville, California.

This is a little cottage I came across up in El Portal just right up the mountain from where my shack is. 

If you look way down there you can see houses. This is Lookout Peak in El Portal, California a road I take on my days off to stretch my legs.

Another cool house up on Eagle Peak Mountain in El Portal.

I spent a lot of time around the Cliff House in San Francisco and even though I do not have any photographs of the old structure I got to edit a couple I came across. Like this one with it burning down for like the third time. Evidently, it even got blown up once by a ship loaded with dynamite that had drifted into the rocks right underneath it.

What a beautiful image eh?

Here is a really old photo of me atop the cabin I was living in when I went to reside in Norway in 1986. 

The ghost figure is my girlfriend at the time and future wife and then ex wife who had set the time delay a tab bit short.

 

Look at all that hair!

Meanwhile back in Santiago, Chile somebody's new house/apartment is nearing completion in our barrio. 

More wonderful(lying here) apartment buildings in Santiago dominating old houses along the street.

 

And the view out the window of my friend in Santiago of an apartment building that is exactly the same as hers. 

This was the cabin that we were shooting the film Gone In the Night starring Winona Ryder up in Cazadero, California a couple of summers ago. I got to play 'watchdog' and slept in the yard in my sleeping bag and strange things happened all through the night; footsteps walking across the roof, curtains opening and shutting and ghostly like apparitions drifting by in the night through the Redwood forest. Naw, I made all that up to give the City Slickers from LA and SF a thrill when they asked me about camping out there by myself at night. Boooooooo! I guess you can find that flick on Amazon Prime. 

This was my lighting setup outside the window of the house we were shooting at in Petaluma, California.

Here I am with my mask down durning the COVID crises working on the lighting of the film.

This was our grip/electrical truck on the film which sometimes serves as a house on long remote locations. This was taking right before dawn as we worked 9pm until 9am.

Now, let's go up to Petrolia, California where I sometimes end up going to toss out my tent and stay at the home of a great friend that lets me hang out up there in the Redwoods when I come around.

This is the Church up in Petrolia.

And some images from Light House Road in Petrolia. You see what I did here? Light 'House' Road. I know not a house but named after a house.

Here I am in Petrolia, California making a phone call to my house. Not! The phone did not work.

A lovely little house in Petrolia.

Yeah, yeah yeah not a house. But, one was nearby and I just love the intention in this scene.

And finally, this temporary house for kids to play in or folks traveling through to get out of the always howling wind and bright sun while visiting the Lost Coast National Seashore up near Petrolia.