Glimpses of South Pasadena: Look Up!

Thursday, August 9, 2012

Look Up!

August skies are trying to get your attention.

(For the mother load of ethereal Arroyo Seco sky images, check out Shanna Galloway's blog View.)

9 comments:

Judy Williams said...: Like a Michaelangelo painting in the Sistine Chapel!!; August 9, 2012 at 7:29 AM
Green Guy said...: Ahhhhhhh.....; August 9, 2012 at 7:44 AM
TheChieftess said...: Beautiful sky!!! Love the gold and bright blue!!!; August 9, 2012 at 10:50 AM
Pasadena Adjacent said...: I love your sister's sky series. I think of her every time we have a glorious sunset (your not to bad yourself); August 9, 2012 at 6:39 PM
Jason said...: Oh, I'd forgotten about Shanna's beautiful blog. I'm off to see it now. (This is beautiful, LA.); August 9, 2012 at 7:24 PM
Jason said...: I just overused the word beautiful. Actually, can you overuse the word beautiful?

jason; August 9, 2012 at 7:26 PM
Laurie said...: Nope, you can never overuse the word beautiful.

Thanks so much, you guys.; August 9, 2012 at 7:27 PM
ben wideman said...: Awesome. I miss that.; August 10, 2012 at 11:24 AM
Shanna said...: Thanks for the plug... and great sky!...We just got our Internet connection back after 2 days of no computer and 6 hours of no electricity...:-); August 10, 2012 at 10:32 PM

Find Me Elsewhere...

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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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.

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