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.
You can click on any picture to see a larger version.
All photos and prose on this blog copyright Laurie Allee. Reproduction without written permission is prohibited. (Plus, it's really uncool.)
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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5 comments:
Mr. Earl's chia pets grew!!!
Ha ha Judy! These look like cartoon trees. I love all the tree and plant shots of late.
So beautiful!
Can't ski on flower petals!!!
We've got snow!!!
Kinda like Dr Suess!
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