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[brittanymarcoux]

Testing on some framing ideas for my new/in-process series SHAPE/SHIFT.

[theshoreproject]

U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon

Left: Shore’s shot from July 21, 1973

Right: My shot from January 14, 2017

Back from vacation for a while and back to editing (which I am still very behind on from the summer). We are in for a big snow storm here in New England, so I am hoping to get lots done over the next couple of days! 

This location was the one I was most looking forward to. It has always been one of my favorite Shore photographs and I knew it was sure to be a gamble with that amazing billboard. Sure enough, it was gone. We were there in January with a few inches of snow covering the ground...remnants of that billboards could have been hiding underneath, but it is highly doubtful. Due to the disappearing billboard, it made this shot a little bit harder to find, but we did it! We drove back and forth a couple of times on US 97...knowing very well that Shore was traveling South, and looked North into his rear view mirror to find this scene. With Brian driving South, I hopped in the back seat and eagerly scanned the landscape out of the back window. I first used the size of the mountains to get an accurate distance. I knew there were some buildings in the background of Shore’s photographs so we searched for those (see image above) and found them...we then knew we were in the right spot! Lastly, we looked for a gate, never expecting to find it...but there it was with snow and tall winter grass all around it. Klamath Falls = success!

[bardo1129]

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[theshoreproject]

Change of plans this winter we are going to Texas! We will grab 25+ photos along this route! Can’t wait!

[theshoreproject]

Market Street, San Francisco, California

Left: Shore’s shot from 1974

Right: My shot from 2017

We ended our west coat road trip meeting up with great friends in San Francisco, which was helpful to have them around for finding this location...more hands on deck! Never a bad thing. This shot was pretty simple to find, as I knew it would be...buildings just don’t change too often, or if they do...they only get bigger! As you can see here, from 1974 to 2017...everything got just a little bit taller in downtown SF.

[theshoreproject]

Fifth Street and Broadway, Eureka, California

Left: Shore’s shot from 1974 

Right: My shot from 2017

Eureka, California was a particularly draining shot to find. We had been on the road for almost 12 hours the day before, trekking our way across the Shasta-Trinity National forest on Route 36. While we were on this road trip, the west coast from WA to Northern CA had just been hit with it's worst weather in about 15 years...and route 36 was really showing us those effects. At about 10pm, we doubted if were even going to make it off the mountain...we were on muddy roads, trees and guard rails wiped out by mud slides...oh, and about to run out of gas with no cell service. I will spare you all the details for now, but we finally made it to Eureka around 1am and got a quick night's rest at a Motel 6.

In the morning we set out to find our location. Finding the site was easy since Shore gave the names of the two cross streets in his title, finding the right angle was another story. When we got to our location, we knew Shore was elevated, looking down on the restaurant parking lot. We found stairs that led us up to a balcony of the neighboring Best Western. Issue #1: At 8:00am, the balcony windows were all fogged over, we could not see a thing (see photo above). We decided to grab some breakfast at Kristina's (formerly and inappropriately called Sambo's in Shore's 1974 shot, read this article to learn more about the rise and fall of Sambo's restaurants: Sambo's: The Racist Restaurant Chain America Once Loved). After breakfast we checked back in and all was clear. Issue #2: There was a big roof blocking the exact angle I needed, hence the big brown roof at the bottom of my shot. I was able to grab enough of the scene, but with the windows and the roof obstructing my view I was over all not pleased with the way this location turned out. There were a few things that remained the same in this scene, but over all lots of changes (some we can be thankful for).

[theshoreproject]

((see previous post))

...I spent a while creating the portrait exactly as Shore set-up his, but after awhile Rick said, "OK now let's just be us!"...this ended up being the portrait I chose, after all they are the Villarreals, not the Wehryls...

[brittanymarcoux]

Excited to share that this photograph is included in @the_billboard_creative this year. My image, along with 44 others, will be going up around LA starting December 1st. Be sure to keep a lookout for all of them 🙌 When I submitted this image with a fortune that reads "In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity" I had no idea how relevant the photo would become, but now more than ever this message is important and hopefully it will lift some spirits on Melrose Ave -----> www.thebillboardcreative.com ✌️️📸 #staypositive #staymotivated #thebillboardcreative #publicart #TBC2016 #losangeles #brittanymarcoux #fortunecookie