I was scouting locations this week for a magazine that wants to do portraits of our Olympic athletes for an upcoming issue. They plan to do all the shoots in Dallas, so I had to go through and take detailed images of each potential location. Though I only do it occasionally, some location scouts do this full time.
One of the locations I scouted was the SMU campus. I’ve always enjoyed the architecture of the old buildings, but this gave me a new fondness for some of the under appreciated parts of the campus. The school has been around for a hundred years, so it’s had plenty of growth and change over the years.
The photos below are from the old natatorium. The brick, wood and metal throughout the building seemed to hum and vibrate with stories of the past. I could almost hear a swim meet from the 1940’s taking place. It would be fun to go back and really document the lesser-known parts of the campus with an 8×10 camera, instead of just zipping through it with my Canon 5DmkII.
