Martin Trailer Productions » Airfloat http://blog.martintrailer.com ....... about photography and some trailers. Tue, 13 May 2014 16:32:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Authentic Portraits – Ed http://blog.martintrailer.com/2012/05/07/authentic-portraits-ed/ http://blog.martintrailer.com/2012/05/07/authentic-portraits-ed/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 08:00:19 +0000 http://blog.martintrailer.com/?p=910

Ed Lum at the Monterey Trailer Park, former Auto Camp in front of a Gold Tone Airfloat. ©Martin Trailer

This Authentic Portrait of Ed Lum is part of my personal work seeking vintage trailers.  Personal work like continuing education keeps sharpening your skill set and adds to the “10,000 hours” I mentioned in the first of this Authentic Portraits series.

Ed lives in a trailer park in Monterey Park, right next to Pasadena, California. I just showed up because of an article I read the day before in the Los Angeles Times about the trailer park.  Ed does not live in this gold tone Airfloat trailer, but it was the rarest in the park and a vintage travel trailer.  Most all the trailers in the park were vintage park types, versus the typical travel or pull types I seek. It was highlighted in the paper since the place has a history going back as an Auto Camp on Route 66 and further to the days as a Pony Express stop.

My experience and with Ed, when I explain what I am looking for and why, most folks are very cooperative and are very helpful with suggestions and willing subjects.

Ed is in his element, relaxed and authentic.

Comments encouraged.

Martin
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]]> http://blog.martintrailer.com/2012/05/07/authentic-portraits-ed/feed/ 0 Monterrey Trailer Park, Slice of Life http://blog.martintrailer.com/2009/08/18/monterrey-trailer-park-slice-of-life/ http://blog.martintrailer.com/2009/08/18/monterrey-trailer-park-slice-of-life/#comments Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:24:34 +0000 http://blog.martintrailer.com/?p=477 This is another in my image series called “Slice of Life”.  These are the results of polishing “seeing” skills for real work by experimenting on personal projects. The value of personal experimental shooting insures something special for customer assignments and seen in the results.

With my last name, my personal project for the past few years is vintage “trailers” naturally.  While not the only genre, it has lead to many new branch off photographic opportunities.

Featured here is Ed Lum, resident of the Monterrey Trailer Park, Highland Park area, right next to Pasadena, California, in front of a vintage Gold Tone Airfloat trailer at the park.  The Gold Tone is a rare option on the Airfloat trailer then and now if you can find one.

When working on personal projects, risks and growth are part of the projects that drive and translates to better work for you the client.

Livin’ the Life

Click to see Ed at the Montrery Trailer Park

Ed, livin' the life at the Monterrey Trailer Park, Highland Park. It is a
designated historical site and an original "Auto Camp' from the 1920's.
Also, but unconfirmed the park was a Pony Express stop way back.

Expressions of everyday life, drawing in the viewer with real people by a slice in time.

When you need to create and capture the best of a “slice of life”, give me a call.

Have a great day and better week.

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