Amazing composition! The train tracks and the chem trails really draw my eye, which is saying something for a photo centered by the sun. I hope everybody got where they needed to go that day.
Wow, it's beautiful. Great colors in this photo. And yes, let's do lunch. I met Earl at my Artist Reception - it was so fun! He recognized the paintings from your photos immediately!
OHOHOHOH < I was right there! DAMN, I didn't stay till the sunset. Girl may I say I love your hood! I have BUsters coming up one day soon. I hope it's ok to pay homage to So Pas. You do it so well, I can't hold a candle, but I want to!!!
Thanks so much, everyone! Wayne and Virg, I'm partial to those train tracks, too. I could do an entire series of tracks at sunset. I love the way the glow.
Leslie, I am looking forward to lunch whenever we can figure out a time! It's weird that I can get your newsletters from your blog in my email but never get a personal message. I went through hundreds of spam folder messages -- how much viagra IS there to be sold online, anyway? -- and you weren't there, either. I don't get it.
I appreciate all of the lovely comments, gang. And do run over th Shanna's to see some beautiful skies!
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.
16 comments:
I like the circular silhouette amidst all of the angles and lines. I wish I were there now, eating a cookie with coffee. :)
Amazing composition! The train tracks and the chem trails really draw my eye, which is saying something for a photo centered by the sun. I hope everybody got where they needed to go that day.
My first thought was: the light behind the lights. (Those are traffic lights silhouetted?)
I agree, an amazing shot. I like the light reflecting off the rails and the lines all coming together at a point out of the shot off to the left.
I love this.
wow. I really like this one, Laurie.
Love the colors of the sky and sun setting!
The tracks in the road make it for me, very nice LA!
Head towards the light, head towards the light....then veer right and visit Shanna's skies. Your two posts seem related
Wow, it's beautiful. Great colors in this photo.
And yes, let's do lunch. I met Earl at my Artist Reception - it was so fun! He recognized the paintings from your photos immediately!
Thanks for the plug, PasAdjacent!
This week's post is rather romantic.
And while you are there, click on last week's post, Sky Lines.
-Shanna
Good one, Laurie!
OHOHOHOH < I was right there! DAMN, I didn't stay till the sunset. Girl may I say I love your hood! I have BUsters coming up one day soon. I hope it's ok to pay homage to So Pas. You do it so well, I can't hold a candle, but I want to!!!
I can't admit it, but Wayne's sort of right, the tracks make it for me too. DO NOT tell him I said so.
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Thanks so much, everyone! Wayne and Virg, I'm partial to those train tracks, too. I could do an entire series of tracks at sunset. I love the way the glow.
Leslie, I am looking forward to lunch whenever we can figure out a time! It's weird that I can get your newsletters from your blog in my email but never get a personal message. I went through hundreds of spam folder messages -- how much viagra IS there to be sold online, anyway? -- and you weren't there, either. I don't get it.
I appreciate all of the lovely comments, gang. And do run over th Shanna's to see some beautiful skies!
Until tomorrow...
Very cool shot. Love the geometry & the shiny rails!
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