I've really enjoyed shooting the calendar at the Saunders Corps of Cadets Center at A&M these past few years, but this year we shot at a local restaurant that has a big collection on the walls. Dr. Sneed came up to assist along with Jackson and we knocked off 10 shots in a short day. Location was just three miles from my house. Happy to have new guns but also a bunch of new backgrounds to work with. Borrowed a Nikon D3 to shoot and mostly used one soft box and a white card for reflector.
Just out of the frame it's clamp and tape hell.
Side-hammer guns.
Slightly different take on side-hammers.
An inset on one of the black powder guns.
Shotguns!
Dr. Sneeds dad's Airforce S&W.
Luger, Sneeds Nazi dagger and a little Mauser.
Nambu and one of my theater-made knives from WWII
Cut down Detective Special.
Old guns on a blanket I bought near Shiprock years ago.
Common pistol.
Last shot of the day. Derringers on the end of an old trunk. One light and a card, plus I had to stand on an apple box to get up with a short telephoto.
Cranked along. I started with the hardest set-ups first and worked to the easy ones by the late afternoon. The guns are currently being ID-ed. Going to add a few I already had on hand. Hope to get one more years shoot out of this location.
Glad to get this project done as it is adding up to a very busy summer.
5 comments:
Beautiful pics Robert, and I envy your ability to get to shoot these pieces of history!
Is there a place online where one can buy this calendar once it's ready? I'd love to have one for my office.
Great bunch of guns.
I take gun pics from time to time.
Really need to buy, or make, a box.
TSRA site will have them by the mid-fall for 10.00. Texas State Rifle Association.
Beautiful pictures indeed! Thanks for sharing those wonderful pieces of history. I have to say you have one great collection out there. Do you have something along the lines of the Best Hunting Knife for hunting? I have been trying to come up with my own along that vein only knives.
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