This is a great photo, LA. I'd pull up "Bird on a Wire" by Leonard Cohen, but I'm too lazy.
Yesterday, I saw three pigeons standing in the middle of the street in Alhambra. They did not budge when I drove past them. The were not eating anything, or moving around, just standing. I watched them in by rear-view mirror for a couple blocks and they didn't budge. I wondered if they were really pigeons or statues, and whether this was a psychological test to see if drivers would drive at them or go around them. It was very strange.
Something's up, Mr. Earl. When I went out to get the paper this morning there was a crow standing on the neighbor's front lawn. When I went out a few minutes later, he was still standing there.
What do they know that we don't know? Is there an earthquake about to happen? Is Alfred Hitchcock returning with "The Birds?" What's the answer to this mystery?
Oh, and Shanna... this was taken a while ago. Perhaps back as far as January? I just hadn't posted it yet. Actually, I forgot about it and rediscovered it when I was going through files.
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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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.
12 comments:
Beautiful one!
My Inspiration
Bangkok in Shambles
Man!! Those are some kind of clouds. I love it when the single bird is perched atop the lamp post like that!! The silhouette is terrific. TGIF
wv: nesti - maybe the bird is scouting out a new place to put his
It makes me wonder if birds pause to take in beauty.
Wonderful sunset!!! The bird definitely has the prime spot!!!
Nice colors!
I'm wondering when you took this. I haven't had any clouds lately.
Did you see the one I did a few posts back with a bird?
This is a great photo, LA. I'd pull up "Bird on a Wire" by Leonard Cohen, but I'm too lazy.
Yesterday, I saw three pigeons standing in the middle of the street in Alhambra. They did not budge when I drove past them. The were not eating anything, or moving around, just standing. I watched them in by rear-view mirror for a couple blocks and they didn't budge. I wondered if they were really pigeons or statues, and whether this was a psychological test to see if drivers would drive at them or go around them. It was very strange.
Something's up, Mr. Earl. When I went out to get the paper this morning there was a crow standing on the neighbor's front lawn. When I went out a few minutes later, he was still standing there.
What do they know that we don't know? Is there an earthquake about to happen? Is Alfred Hitchcock returning with "The Birds?" What's the answer to this mystery?
Hmmmm, we've had a crow hangin' out and stalking our kitties...
I'm thinkin'...the birds are coming!!! the birds are coming!!!
You guys are freaking me out!!!
The other day at The Huntington, two geese were sleeping in the middle of a fairly busy walkway. Hmmmm....
Before I forget my manners: welcome CafebyJW! :-)
Oh, and Shanna... this was taken a while ago. Perhaps back as far as January? I just hadn't posted it yet. Actually, I forgot about it and rediscovered it when I was going through files.
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