OMG! The reflection in the window looks like the writer's imagination... he is writing a story about a man who is going to his car to take a road trip!
He belongs to this setting so perfectly, I wonder if he said to himself, hmmn, Kaldi today, so I'll wear my light blue jeans and orange shirt. Terrific portrait.
Well, it's not a Mac computer and he's wearing socks so I would bet against art director. No I'm not wearing socks and I'm using a Mac. In my case the scene includes a large steaming apple pie.
Yep, that was the Shuttle landing at Edwards. Remember early on when they all landed at Edwards? We got used to the double sonic booms, then they decided to land them in Florida to save the cost of transporting them on the back of a 747 cross country.
This guy is obviously a UT Longhorn based on the color of his shirt. It's not quite the right color, but close enough. He's researching the point spread for this week's college games.
Did I mention how much I liked the orange duplex image. I did a mixed media piece that looked a bunch like it. I ended up showing it in Korea where it was purchased by a collector.
They prefer landing in Florida sinch it results in a round trip with the landing being the same place as lift off. Apparently, it costs over a million dollars to transport the shuttle from California to Florida. It gets mounted on the back of a 747 which has to land and refuel a few times to get there. I guess it's too big to ship by Fed-Ex.
Don't you just love the orange in this shot? I noticed it when I was driving by and I actually pulled around the block and came back to get the picture. It's one thing to match a simple red but a true terra cotta colored shirt?
I love it.
Pasadenaadjacent, thanks about the garage photo. I would love to see your piece. Surely you have a picture of it to share?
Thanks, everyone for playing along today. Until tomorrow.
In December of 2007, after many years on the west side of Los Angeles (and at least a third of those years spent stuck in traffic on Pico Boulevard) my family settled into a happy little house in South Pasadena. This daily blog covered over 4 year as I put down roots in my new home town.
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Thank you Charlie's Coffee House for hosting my recent photo exhibit, South Pas: Observed. From October 2011 through January 2012 my pictures graced the walls of the best place in town to get a cup of coffee!
Read the nifty story on photo bloggers Petrea Burchard, Ben Wideman, Kat Likkel and little old me featured in the September, 2011 issue of Pasadena Magazine.
For over 4 years, I presented a picture a day from South Pasadena, California -- an incorporated city within the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. All photos up to November, 2008 were taken with a Fujifilm Finepix E900 camera. I added a Fujifilm Finepix S2000HD megazoom in December 2008, a Nikon D3100 in 2010 and a Lumix DMC-DS8 in 2011. I shot with them all. In August 2010 I joined the iPhone camera craze and sometimes included pictures captured by my phone. I regularly cropped images and used basic editing software to adjust the brightness, intensify the contrast, and increase color saturation. Other than that, all images came straight from the camera with minimal alteration. (If I couldn't have done it in a darkroom, I wouldn't do it with a computer.)
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Consider it a love letter to the place I call home.
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Run, don't walk to the nearest bookseller and pick up a copy of Margaret Finnegan's delightful debut novel, The Goddess Lounge -- undoubtedly the kookiest, most wonderful riff on Homer's Odyssey ever written. Margaret never ceases to inspire and make us laugh at her blog Finnegan Begin Again. Her book is magical, silly, smart and a wonderful love letter to the all the goddesses among us.
Our very own Altadena poet Linda Dove weaves words into thoughtful tapestries in her moving poetry collection In Defense of Objects and chapbook O Dear Deer.
Kevin McCollister of East of West LA blows our minds with haunting images of Los Angeles. But since we can't put his blog on our coffee table, we can buy his fantastic book. I believe Kevin's images truly capture the quixotic and often heartbreaking soul of LA. Don't take my word for it, see what The LA Times had to say.
21 comments:
One of your better shots. I'm looking for the reflection.
Busy in work !! GReat...Unseen Rajasthan
Give this guy a glass of orange juice.
I think Mom sees what I did - the theme of orange with his shirt and the pot that the ficus tree is in. Good eye, my dear. :)
Is that Chance Lawson, the architect?
Dixie made me spill mine.
Earthy vulgarity, mineralistic and not so quiet riot bloom of hues.
OMG! The reflection in the window looks like the writer's imagination... he is writing a story about a man who is going to his car to take a road trip!
He belongs to this setting so perfectly, I wonder if he said to himself, hmmn, Kaldi today, so I'll wear my light blue jeans and orange shirt. Terrific portrait.
Hey Laurie,
Well, it's not a Mac computer and he's wearing socks so I would bet against art director. No I'm not wearing socks and I'm using a Mac. In my case the scene includes a large steaming apple pie.
Ha, later
Doug
Okay, who else jumped from the sonic boom a few minutes ago? Discovery landed at Edwards apparently...
Yep, that was the Shuttle landing at Edwards. Remember early on when they all landed at Edwards? We got used to the double sonic booms, then they decided to land them in Florida to save the cost of transporting them on the back of a 747 cross country.
This guy is obviously a UT Longhorn based on the color of his shirt. It's not quite the right color, but close enough. He's researching the point spread for this week's college games.
Me too! I thought it was a truck passing.
Did I mention how much I liked the orange duplex image. I did a mixed media piece that looked a bunch like it. I ended up showing it in Korea where it was purchased by a collector.
I don't understand why they keep having to use CA as a "backup" landing strip. Don't they know by now Florida has bad weather!
They prefer landing in Florida sinch it results in a round trip with the landing being the same place as lift off. Apparently, it costs over a million dollars to transport the shuttle from California to Florida. It gets mounted on the back of a 747 which has to land and refuel a few times to get there. I guess it's too big to ship by Fed-Ex.
Hey again,
Don't you just love the orange in this shot? I noticed it when I was driving by and I actually pulled around the block and came back to get the picture. It's one thing to match a simple red but a true terra cotta colored shirt?
I love it.
Pasadenaadjacent, thanks about the garage photo. I would love to see your piece. Surely you have a picture of it to share?
Thanks, everyone for playing along today. Until tomorrow.
Oh, and DB -- it's definitely a shade of longhorn orange!
We really wouldn't want Longhorn "Burnt Orange" after all we've been through lately!
What's a million dollars in these daze of our govt spending trillions like there's no future tomorrow!
Actually, I'm sure that anyone who patronizes Kaldi's will try really hard NOT to fit in.
Just kidding, great shot Laurie!
Good points, guys. :-)
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