That Tudor style reminds me of the steak restaurant where a group of used to sing jazz in the bar years ago. Since this has a window unit in that one window, it makes it look like apartments, converted in years past.
I like it when you include the words painted in the road. STOP makes me stop and linger a moment and think about what the image means to me.
Very inviting shot. Looks like a fun place to live. The Do Not Enter sign is strange there. I like that little street. Reminds me of some of the canyons in the Hollywood Hills.
I was intrigued by this house the first time I saw it. The cement and wood beam construction reminds me of French Normandy, or somewhere like that. I wonder if it used to part of one of the large estates behind it on Oaklawn. Staff quarters perhaps?
I know where this is! Earl's right, I love that little street with the old funky houses. I'm sure all the residents are artists -- or at least I'd like to think so.
The minister of a friend of mine used to live right across from that house, or maybe even in that house. His kids used to sell figs (I think it was figs) that grew on their property on the corner there.
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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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.
8 comments:
That Tudor style reminds me of the steak restaurant where a group of used to sing jazz in the bar years ago. Since this has a window unit in that one window, it makes it look like apartments, converted in years past.
I like it when you include the words painted in the road. STOP makes me stop and linger a moment and think about what the image means to me.
This One goes out to You, Mom
Very inviting shot. Looks like a fun place to live. The Do Not Enter sign is strange there. I like that little street. Reminds me of some of the canyons in the Hollywood Hills.
I was intrigued by this house the first time I saw it. The cement and wood beam construction reminds me of French Normandy, or somewhere like that. I wonder if it used to part of one of the large estates behind it on Oaklawn. Staff quarters perhaps?
I know where this is! Earl's right, I love that little street with the old funky houses. I'm sure all the residents are artists -- or at least I'd like to think so.
I like this street. It always feels kind if secretive.
The minister of a friend of mine used to live right across from that house, or maybe even in that house. His kids used to sell figs (I think it was figs) that grew on their property on the corner there.
What a rockin' house! It is fun to see a stately house like this party to Madonna.
Thanks, lovely ones!
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