Irvine Camera

03/23/2024

We lost Paul Smet yesterday 3/22/2024.

07/01/2022

Irvine Camera closes with a shutter.
https://www.egp-photo.com/History/News-Article/n-Df4Qn/i-Xv3MN5S/A

06/30/2022

Irvine Camera closed for the last time 6/30/2005.

01/03/2022

Remembering Harbor Photo's Saturday Afternoon Club ... Michael Fitzwater, Sven Pretorious et al

09/16/2021

Photo by Woody Woodworth

• WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN A GLORIOUS GIFT WITH THIS LIFE, SO RICH WITH WONDER •

This image is from 1975/6 shot with a newly acquired Century 650mm Lens that was the go to Super Telephoto of that day of surf photography.

An all manual lens with an f6.3 wide aperture. It was a little dark out on the corners, but when you nailed the focus you felt like "King of the World".

Here one of the local gals Kerry, Carrie, Carey, (oh gosh not sure how she spelled it) was inspired to ride her horse ba****ck on this October Day of the magical Indian Summers we get this time of year in Southern California.

Back in those days there were horse stable just outside of Corona del Mar and the entire Crystal Cove coastline was available to ride on, until you came to the Gigantic Ancient Tree Stump that forms Abalone Point at the end of El Moro.

That coastline and Corona del Mar/ Wedge beaches was where God showed me his Handy Work. I went on to name my little business Creation Captured.

It's been quite a Ride !!!

07/29/2020

Harbor Photo, Corona del Mar CA circa 1974. I'm the tall one. Specialty camera store plus Studio and Darkrooms in the back. Woody had this image and shared it with me.

07/03/2020

Rembering Hugh Davis who passed away on this date in 2000.
Former Costa Mesa resident Hugh B. Davis died Monday in Irvine. He was 84.
Born in Riverside on Oct. 16, 1915, Mr. Davis settled in Newport-Mesa in the early 1920s with his parents. As a youth, his hobbies included tinkering with radios and cameras.
In 1933, he was part of the second graduating class of Newport Harbor High School. He attended annual reunions until recently.
Mr. Davis’ roots in the area run deep. His father was manager of the Costa Mesa branch of the old Bank of Balboa. His mother, Maude, taught in the local schools for 30 years and had a school named in her honor, Davis Education Center.
Mr. Davis married his high school sweetheart, Geraldine Perry, on May 21, 1944. Together, they had three children: Dianne, Richard and Roger. During World War II, Mr. Davis worked for Lockheed Aircraft, wiring bombers and testing wartime radios. In 1947, he built a television and appliance store on 19th Street and Harbor Boulevard with his brother-in-law, Chisholm Brown. It would remain open for 40 years, relocating in 1963 to 17th Street.
Mr. Davis was very active with the First United Methodist Church on 19th Street. He and Geraldine were counselors in the church’s youth program.
Mr. Davis also mentored several youths from the church on the inner workings of amateur radio, more commonly referred to as HAM radio.
Mr. Davis enjoyed water-skiing with the family on the Colorado River.
Since 1980, he worked for Irvine Camera and served as historian/documentation officer and photographer for Irvine Disaster
Emergency Communications, the city of Irvine’s volunteer disaster emergency group.
Mr. Davis also developed an interest in computers in the 1970s and enrolled in local classes so he could expand his knowledge in the field.
“I have always been proud to be his daughter,” Dianne Davis said. “He is going to be missed by a lot of people.”
Mr. Davis is survived by his sister, a brother-in-law, his three children and their spouses, 11 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
A memorial service is scheduled for 3 p.m. today at the First United Methodist Church, 420 W. 19th St., Costa Mesa.

06/05/2020

Remembering our friend and co-worker Stu Weber.

06/28/2019

Former long-time Harbor Photo customer. We wish them the best.

IRVINE, Calif. (PRWEB) April 03, 2018 -- James M. Irvine and Susan R. Jeske have announced their engagement and will be married in the Spring of 2018 at the Irvine Ranch Historic Park.

09/08/2017

Found stationary from Harbor photo

07/19/2017

Photography, from the day it was invented, changed the world we live in and made history by keeping the most precious moments of our lives safe and preserv