... so very awesome! i noticed the pear blossoms on my street today. walking home this evening i, too, pointed the (phone) cam to the sky: venus and crescent moon alone together. beautiful. Thank you.
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. Join me as I put down roots in my new home town.
Check out my multimedia column: Views from the Front Porch
Also, read the story on photo bloggers Petrea Burchard, Ben Wideman, Kat Likkel and little old me featured in the September, 2011 issue of Pasadena Magazine.
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!
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 shoot with them all. In August 2010 I joined the iPhone camera craze and sometimes include pictures captured by my phone. I regularly crop images and use basic editing software to adjust the brightness, intensify the contrast, and increase color saturation. Other than that, all images come straight from the camera with minimal alteration. (If I couldn't have done it in a darkroom, I won't do it with a computer.)
The bigger picture:
Consider it a love letter to the place I call home.
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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 astounds us 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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... so very awesome! i noticed the pear blossoms on my street today. walking home this evening i, too, pointed the (phone) cam to the sky: venus and crescent moon alone together. beautiful. Thank you.
Despite this being a crescent moon with it's pal Venus (I think) not too far away, this Neil Young favorite popped into my head.
Very cool!
I saw it but didn't have my camera. It is supposed to happen again tonight.
Gorgeous!
Sound like a perfect evening for a walk Shanna
Amazing
Guess I should have called it a planet! I noticed this last night and couldn't helP but scramble for my camera. Thanks for the kind words, everyone!
so stunning it almost looks unreal.
I'm so happy I got lucky with the shot, Alex!
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