I can't think of a thing although I could spend an hour analyzing the composition. Too many years in art school I guess, where we would have to title it: Composition in Green White and Red. We're no fun. Thank goodness for you literary types!
Mr. Earl's on a roll and I'm rolling! I'm with Hiker though. These caption requests make me anxious because I can't ever think of a thing. So what do i do? I leave a comment about absolutely nuttin'! V
Virg: You're awesome, as is the Hiker and and the Laurie. Funny, but I could caption all day long, and come back for more. I have a warning on my wall: If your captioning lasts more than four hours, see a doctor immediately.
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.)
The bigger picture:
Consider it a love letter to the place I call home.
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All photos and prose on this blog copyright Laurie Allee. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. (Plus, it's really uncool.)
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.
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"Waiting on the homeless of So Pasadena"
Believing he would not pass the test, Jim left his sample outside the clinic and returned home.
THE JAVA JIVE
I love coffee, I love tea
I love the Java Jive
And it loves me
Coffee and tea and the java and me
A cup, a cup, a cup, a cup, a cup
(Boy!)
Oh come on, your caption requests are pure torture to me.
oh please..men can't hit the entire toilet, how on EARTH are they going to manage to hit this teeny cup on a sidewalk outside of Thrifty's? ;-)
Hard to imagine a better caption than Mr. Earl's! Here's a shot at it:
The invisible homeless man rarely succeeded at panhandling.
I like Mr Earls take
wicked good
After the family dynamic at the annual Johnston Thanksgiving get together, Phil just had to get away and have a quick snort of whiskey.......
Walking deserted streets always makes Hector The Cup feel so empty inside.
Spare change?
You are all very entertaining!
I can't think of a thing although I could spend an hour analyzing the composition. Too many years in art school I guess, where we would have to title it: Composition in Green White and Red. We're no fun. Thank goodness for you literary types!
The one thing that comes to mind (besides the fact that I love Mr. Earl's) is that the wall will be long gone before that cup biodegrades...
My friend Susan Werner, a singer-songwriter who grew up on a farm near Manchester, Iowa, wrote a song called Barbed Wire Boys with the line:
And the men I knew when I was coming up
Were sober as coffee in a Styrofoam cup
Pasadena Adjacent: Thanks. Are you really from the Northeast?
Somehow, a visit to Hiker's blog this evening has affected me, caused me to caption, "What's your cup size?"
WV: seshaper
Earl, you win the gold star for this one. I have been chuckling about it all day.
Welcome GoMiami!
Yak, you came up with the same idea I thought of.
I love the Caption This Photo posts so much (even though the Hiker hates them) because you are all so very clever!!!
Until next time...
Mr. Earl's on a roll and I'm rolling! I'm with Hiker though. These caption requests make me anxious because I can't ever think of a thing. So what do i do? I leave a comment about absolutely nuttin'!
V
Virg: You're awesome, as is the Hiker and and the Laurie. Funny, but I could caption all day long, and come back for more. I have a warning on my wall: If your captioning lasts more than four hours, see a doctor immediately.
Too funny! I loved Mister Earl's too!
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