Paul Lender

About Left of Center Photography

Left of Center Photography is simple, relaxed, fun photography that captures clients being themselves. The studio comes to you so that your photos are in the places that are part of your memories.

Tag: ‘landscape’



Spice Kitchen+Bar

Saturday, January 21st, 2012

My good friends at Spice of Life Catering Company have opened up a restaurant on Cleveland’s West Side.  You’ll find it right on the corner of Detroit and W 58th Street.   Not only will you find great food and a nice atmosphere, but you also find six huge prints from Left of Center Photography hanging on the walls!

Toward the end of last summer, while I was eating under the trees at Holden Arboretum with Chef Ben and his wife Jackie, they mentioned  that in their search for a new kitchen, they found a whole restaurant.   I asked if they were going to need any art to decorate the place but at that point they weren’t exactly sure since it was all so new.  Fast forward to late this winter and I get a call from Jackie asking if I had anything they could use.  She described the style they had in mind and my heart sank.  I knew I just didn’t have it in my portfolio.  The best way to describe it would be a late fall/early winter harvest type of imagery.  And with Cleveland not exactly having a typical snowy winter I didn’t see much opportunity to go out and capture some pictures that would fit the need.

Then, just two days before Christmas it snowed.  I also just happened to find myself out in eastern Ohio farm country.  Luck was on my side.  A few hours in the car and I had what I hoped they were looking for and it turns out that I did.

Spice

Squash Soup

Apple Tree

Bar Lights

Winter Apples

Menu

Table Art

Winter Farm

Winter Field

Winter Field

Just last Tuesday the restaurant opened up.  The prints made it there that day and are on display until Spring.  Stop down, grab a bite to eat and check them out!

 

Stebbin’s Gulch – Time Machine

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011

This weekend I hiked into Stebbin’s Gulch with Ian Adams and a few other brave souls.  The temps were around 12F and we had a 1/2 mile of snow to trudge through from the parking lot to the Gulch.  This was my fourth visit into the gulch, but my first with a bunch of new toys.  I took three cameras with me.  I had my 5dmkII, a Canon AE-1, and a Kodak Brownie Reflex.   This post is all about the Brownie Reflex.

I found this camera at a flea market this summer for $5 in the original box with the manual.  I guess it’s a rare model that was around from 1940-1942.  In 1943 Kodak added a flash sync connection and that model is much more available.  The other interesting thing is that this is a 127 film format camera.  Not easy stuff to find these days.  Fortunately, the good people at B&H Photo still sell it and I’m glad they do because I love the images this camera makes.  They are instantly nostalgic – dusty and scratchy, quirky little lens anomalies.  In this case, the roll didn’t sit quite right and you can even seen the image number in each shot.

Stebbin's Gulch - 1940

Stebbin's Gulch - 1940

Stebbin's Gulch - 1940

Stebbin's Gulch - 1940

Stebbin's Gulch - 1940

Stebbin's Gulch - 1940

Stebbin's Gulch - 1940

Stebbin's Gulch - 1940

Later this week I’ll post shots from the AE-1 and the 5dmkII.    Shortly after that LoC will return to it’s regular programming of families and weddings!

Personal Pictures in Review

Monday, December 13th, 2010

These pictures aren’t people.  They are pictures I take for me.  The things I’m shooting when I’m not with a client and I’m not chasing my own kids around with a camera.  I have to say, LoC was a lot busier this year than I had expected (Thank You Clients!) so I didn’t shoot on my time as much as I have in the past.  Still,  I did get out and I think I got some great shots.  A lot of these are framed and warming up the walls of my house.

There will be a year on review for client shots coming soon, but there is still one more client I have to work with this year!

Cold Calling

Alley

Magnolia

Progressive Field

Blue Sky Umbrella

AM Cleveland

Beauty

Cucumber Falls I

Fall Contrast

Mentor Headland’s Winter Wonderland

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Actually, I wonder what I was thinking heading out to the beach with wind chills that had to be in the single digits if not lower.  Of course, the guy that was windsurfing one up’ed me in the dedication department.

Dedication

Like the video said, I made it to the lighthouse without freezing to death.

Frozen Breakwall

West Beacon on Ice

The most interesting find of the day was this dried up bouquet of roses along the lighthouse breakwall. If anybody knows the story please leave it in the comments or email it to me. If you don’t know the story, make up what you think it might be all about! ;)

Love on the Rocks

Then in the car and off to Mentor Lagoons for a quick walk. It was my first time there and I’m glad my good friend Andi (also crazy enough to make this trip with me) introduced me to the place.

Winter Path

Cold Calling

Let me know what you think of the video. I’m planning on including them more with the posts this year.

 

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