Glimpses of South Pasadena: It's a Jungle Out There...

Sunday, March 25, 2012

It's a Jungle Out There...

When you think about it, jungles are colorful, exciting and strange. I'll take that over boring, ordinary and bleak any day.

8 comments:

Judy Williams said...: Where did you see this? I love it. I could get lost in all of the colors and patterns.; March 25, 2012 at 7:06 AM
Anonymous said...: I know where that is!; March 25, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Michelle said...: I do not know where that is! It is pretty though.; March 25, 2012 at 3:10 PM
Laurie said...: I'll never tell...; March 25, 2012 at 4:29 PM
TheChieftess said...: Looks like an old album cover (and I mean ollllld...for 78's...as in rpms...) of the Rites of Spring that my parents had...; March 25, 2012 at 8:02 PM
Jason said...: Wherever it is, I like it. A school maybe?; March 26, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Sally said...: I have always liked the idea of a jungle. Wild and scary but also filled with life.; March 27, 2012 at 5:55 PM
Pasadena Adjacent said...: it's very well done; March 29, 2012 at 3:18 PM

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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.

Check out pp 47-48 of the May, 2011 issue of Arroyo Magazine for my photos of the Raymond Restaurant's fabulous chef Tim Guiltinan. (Find more of my shots at Pasadena Weekly and the Toyota Farm to Table Tour website.)

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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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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.

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It's a Jungle Out There...

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