Idolize

What's this? Bright lights...

people with microphones...












Could it be?























Getting around the foilage, we find... entertainment reporters!



















Where would such reporters be? Where else but the Hollywood and Highland Center...

Because standing outside the Kodak Theater for the American Idol finale lends authenticity to the report... even if all the viewer can see is the huge Idol banner behind them.











Eh, it allows them to claim they're next to the Kodak without lying.

Easy shooting green

The Jim Henson Company campus on La Brea Ave. in Hollywood.
Notice the spotlight with silhouette on the roof next to the spire with Kermit.

(Yes, extended exposure allows in more light, including passing headlights and taillights.)

More, um, you know, trees

Putting a new twist on the jacaranda-obsessive photos...



























If you wondered what jacaranda blooms would look like atop a palm tree trunk, it might look like this:


And then you should really find some way to occupy your time so you don't wonder such things.

Milkin' it

New shots posted here. There's bubbles.

No, seriously. Bubbles.

Home body

This evening, pictures taken around the condominium complex where I live.




The light on the building next to mine, and the tree right outside my bedroom window.














That tree and light from inside the aforementioned bedroom.












In the courtyard:



















Why is the night sky orange? Illumination from the Long Beach harbor.

(No one in the western part of town needs a night light.)

Hoops in bloom

A back yard in the Valley is a place for the kids to shoot some hoops, and for a garden.

Checkered past...

Mid-afternoon sun poking over the Pacific Financial Center building (in downtown L.A.), and reflected back on to the building (off of the building to the northeast, the City National Plaza tower) creating this checkered light-and-shadow pattern.

Bonaventure mini-project

Afternoon shadows in the Bonaventure hotel.
(Yes, the famous one in downtown L.A.)

Fire

Shots taken of what could be seen of the wildfire in Griffith Park from the front porch of my girlfriend's apartment building (about four miles away):

The orange glow of the flames illuminates the thick smoke.

Not quite as dramatic, but in somewhat better focus.

Milk bottle bubble project