This was another early day, and loosing an hour last night didn't help any..!!! None the less, we got out to the House site to take advantage of the nice early morning light.
It's hard to believe that there wasn't even a slab last night at 10:00pm, but here we are in the early AM putting up floor joists.
Today, Ed has taken on the special project of hand building the doors for the Church. This image is of him laying out the measurements before cutting the VERY expensive Walnut lumber that the doors are going to be made out of.
One of the builders (Simmons Homes) had their helicopter on hand and volunteered to take Cesar and myself up to get some aerial shots of the job sites.
Again, remember that last night there wasn't even a foundation. We photographed the first concrete being poured at about 11:00 pm... and now look at the progress of the family's home.
Time for a quick fly-by on the way to the Church site...
New Orleans, Louisiana
This is the church from above (kind of appropriate don't you think?). Even though the project is running about 6 hours behind, it's still hard to believe that they can put up a building this fast..!!!
With light like this how can a photographer NOT take a shot. Note to self, when you are in a helicopter traveling 1oo+ knots with the door removed for better photographs, when it's in the 40's (on the ground), and you don't have a coat... the last thing you should do is hang out the door. I'm just sayin'...
Now that's what I'm taking about..!!! Light just doesn't get much better than this.
Back to the house we found that the walls to the second floor were going up and there was a flurry of activity inside. You would think that with all of these workers trying to work around each other there would be tempers flaring, but the reality is that EVERYONE is working together to get the job done for the family. I wish there was a way to take this kind of kindness and caring into the "real world".
More to come tomorrow (since it's after 12:00 I should have said later today).
Stay tuned...
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