Free Event at the Panhandle-Plain Historical Museum: AMARILLO FLIGHTS!

The Amarillo Flights book from TAMU Press

Paul Chaplo, photographer/author

Event: Dec. 3rd, 2020. Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum, 2nd Floor. Time: 6:00 pm Admission: free
Paul Chaplo, photographer and Bill Mercer curator of art team-up to present "Amarillo Flights: Aerial Views of Llano Estacado Country" The Hazlewood Lecture Hall will be set-up for social distancing. Bring a mask and emerge from your dugout! Admission is FREE. Artwork will be available for sale to take home with you for a great Christmas present! Also pre-orders for books will be available!

The talk will be followed by a gallery visit!

Get your free tickets from PPHM: https://www.panhandleplains.org/events/2020/exhibition-insights-with-paul-chaplo

Big day! Delivering the Amarillo Flights manuscript to Texas A&M University Press

Paul Chaplo at TAMU Press

manuscript in hand!

(College Station) Big day last Friday! My wife Cynthia accompanied me to hand-off the Amarillo Flights manuscript to Texas A&M University Press. We had a delightful visit with the awesome team on Lewis St.

Amarillo Flights: Aerial Views of Llano Estacado Country is packed with Texas-sized color aerial photographs of the Llano Estacado country of Texas and New Mexico. The book is Chaplo’s third collaboration with TAMU Press.

The book features a introduction by Walt Davis, former director of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas; former curator of vertebrate collections at the Dallas Museum of Natural History; and along with his wife Isabel, coauthor of the book Exploring the Edges of Texas. He lives in Campbell, Texas. He is author of Building an Ark for Texas: The Evolution of a Natural History Museum.  Armed with his experience in museums and as a practicing watercolor painter, Davis bridges the worlds of history and art in his writing.

Paul Chaplo is a Texas fine art and commercial photographer. His first book was Amarillo Flights: Aerial Views of Big Bend Country. Chaplo’s commercial work as an aerial and oilfield photographer can be seen at www.oilpics.com 

Along with his latest proposed book Amarillo Flights, Chaplo is planning a traveling exhibition of select color photographs from the book, and is already moving forward with a prospectus, complete with professional art moving services. 

T. Lindsay Baker and Paul Chaplo Collaborate on a New Book: Architecture of Glen Rose

Paul Chaplo (left) and T. Lindsay Baker at Barnard's Mill, Glen Rose, TX

Author/historian Dr. T. Lindsay Baker and photographer Paul Chaplo have teamed-up to collaborate on a new book tentatively titled "A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Glen Rose, TX." The book has its roots in research conducted by historian Baker with his graduate students from Tarleton State University. That groundwork led to a successful NRHP application.

Now T. Lindsay and Paul join forces to create a beautifully illustrated book with great stories about the town and the amazing homes, buildings, and structures in Glen Rose, many of which are covered with petrified wood.

The beautiful town of Glen Rose is located on the banks of the Paluxy River. The first building in the town was Barnard's Mill, shown in the portrait of Baker and Chaplo above. The mill used water power to grind wheat into flour.

The Glen Rose book will be published by Texas A&M University Press. The book release will be accompanied by a book-signing in Glen Rose.