photo by Dennis
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Yesterday’s photo of the day is of the historic Flinn Block building in downtown Albany. It was built for the Albany National Bank (Albany’s first bank) in 1887. Lawyers had offices on the second floor.
I found this note on an architecture company’s website:
The 1887 Flinn Block is one of Albany’s most notable historic commercial buildings. The French Second Empire styled building’s ornamental features include use of cast iron, sheet metal and wood. Originally, there was a bank located in the westernmost bay with retail area to the east. The upper story has heavily detailed original woodwork in the rooms and halls. The second floor exterior remains much as is was originally designed. The cornice and parapet date to the fire of 1911. The first floor storefronts were also remodeled at that time using prismatic glass transoms and large display windows.
Cast iron!
Here’s an old photo, not sure of the date on this… late 20s or early 30s based on the cars in front?
I’ve been enjoying going to the local antique shops and looking through whatever old photos of Albany that I can find. Hoping to trip across some old photos of our house… not holding my breath though!
I did it! One photo every day for the entire month of September, and I only had to resort to a kitteh photo four times.
Eleven more months to go… I hope fall and winter provide some interesting shots!
So, I’m sitting here getting ready to write this post, and I’m looking at the calendar to see that a week and a half has passed since my last post and I can’t remember what I did last week. Well, Dennis had been on vacation the week before, so I must have been catching up on very exciting tasks like laundry and cleaning the kitchen and grocery shopping.
Which kind of explains why I don’t remember what I did last week. Whoo!
I continued to take photos every day. I’m not sure if I will actually be able to keep to the idea of taking every photo with the camera in the phone, but it’s certainly freeing to allow myself that leeway. Not to have to carry the Nikon around everywhere, just in case. The photos aren’t print-worthy, but that’s not the goal of the project for me.
Some shots from September, 2010
I feel like time goes by so quickly lately… just a complete blur. I was kind of hoping that a photo-a-day would slow things down a bit, allow me to mark the passage of each day. It’s kind of working. I remember the photos from last week, but not the chores. Ha!
One thing that I did accomplish last week is starting up a blog for the newly formed Willamette Valley Etsy Team, which is very exciting. We’re not official on Etsy yet because they’re rolling out some new program for teams and aren’t setting up new ones until that goes live — but we’re getting ourselves organized in real life, regardless. When the new program starts on Etsy, we’ll be ready to join up. So, if you’re reading this and you’re in the WV and you have an Etsy shop, please join us!
Is it obnoxious to say “the WV”? I kind of feel like it may be.
The other big thing I have going on is that I started a micro-business class through Willamette Neighborhood Housing Services. The first class was this week and I had to introduce myself in front of 20 or so strangers which was completely scary and I sounded like a fool. But nobody threw anything at me, so I take that as a good sign and am looking forward to learning how to write a business plan!
And now… I must be off. My feet are frozen and I have to brush my hair. Whoo, party!
I love quite a few things about this photo. The lighting, the square format, the utter pristine nature of that Volkswagen bus. The look on my face that says “are you goddamn kidding me with this?”, and which my husband tells me I still get. “You’re looking at me like that right now,” he says.
Hey, do you guys remember the crocheted pinafore I found in a box of childhood stuff? Well. Hang on to your hats, because I found photographic evidence that I actually wore it at least once!
Earlier this year, I tried to start up a photo-a-day project, but got bored with it pretty quickly. It was feeling more like a chore at the time, so I scrapped it. However, I decided to start it up again as a way to chronicle my fifth year in Oregon. This time, I plan to take all the photos with the camera in my phone… or at least most of them.
The photo here is from day 8… went up to Marys Peak this morning. It was cold and foggy, but we managed to make it back down the hill before the rain hit!
Still having fun playing around with two free camera apps for the Droid. Yesterday, to compare, I took this similar shot with the FXCamera app (using the toy camera setting), and then the Retro Camera app (using the Bärbl camera setting):
FXCamera – Toy Camera
Retro Camera – The Bärbl
They both have their charms.
I also took this shot, which I mainly like for the composition, using the Retro Camera app and the Little Orange Box setting:
Retro Camera – Little Orange Box
All of these were taken at the Finley Wildlife Refuge, south of Corvallis.
Craftgawker
Etsy Mini
