Swords to Plowshares Canvas Print

From Swords to Plowshares this building has evolved. During the 1920’s, community boosters in Loveland, Colorado spearheaded a successful effort to establish a National Guard unit in town, primarily as an economy-building and patriotic measure. The 1926 building served for 35 years as the headquarters and training facility for local units of the National Guard.

The building is an important example of the work of Denver architect Sidney G. Frazier, who in was a captain in the Colorado National Guard. It has served as storage for Hewlett-Packard, school district headquarters, city offices and most recently a church.

The church, whose members in 1993 painstakingly remodeled and saved the aging piece of Loveland history, and had it listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Photography is all about using light to capture the emotion and beauty of a fleeting moment. For me, this adventure began with a single spring image using a small Kodak film camera of a freshly watered central Kansas ditch and has come full circle using modern digital techniques. My first camera was acquired by trading an ancient Royal typewriter to a fellow college student who was desperate to finish a term paper. It was a long time ago and that camera was my passport to an art that has fascinated me ever since. I owned and operated a professional studio in central Kansas for 20 years and moved to Colorado in 1994. Part of the studio's early success came from creating outdoor portraiture using controlled lighting...