St. Patrick's Day in Pershing Square

Shots taken during the free midday concert in downtown by L.A.'s own Celtic rock band, Young Dubliners--featuring both the band and those enjoying the show.








(More tales of the event can be read over at ~Dougressions.)

17 Mar 2009

What lies below... or rather, hangs...

Below the flowers from the last few posts there was another interesting subject. Lower in the plants was a spider web that had caught only drops of water (presumably from the sprinklers), so I got the camera down in it.








Park III

These white and purple flowers were found in someplace one might not expect (see these other posts for where). These shots focus on ones that had not opened completely, or at all, or would not open again.






21 Feb 2009

Park II

More white petals and purple stamen of these flowers seen in these posts found in a place not typically associated with beauty.

A parking lot.

21 Feb 2009

Park

Another flower post, but this one is not like all the others. These white petals and purple stamen have cupped some water, but that's not the difference.

It's what was next to these flowers.


Beauty is where you look for it. Even a parking lot.
More.
21 Feb 2009

Flower hunting

Shots taken while apartment hunting last weekend. These flowers all were outside different apartments we looked at.


28 Feb 2009

Urban Light wins cover

About a month and a half ago, I mentioned how some of my Urban Light photos I'd submitted to the LACMA contest were finalists.

I now can announce that one of my photos was chosen as the winner, and is used as the cover for an online exhibit and book, Celebrating Urban Light. (Click those links to see the exhibit and/or order the book.)

The announcement on the LACMA art blog can be read here.

An article on the LA Times Culture Monster blog--for which I was interviewed--can be read here. (That same article also appeared in the Times' print edition--Calendar section, page E3, in case you happen to have that around.)

Here's the image again (and below, how it looked on the page of the newspaper):



Coming clean II

Bar of soap on the windowsill in the bathroom, by the muted sunlight coming in the window. (Same as with the previous post.) For these, however, I played around with setting the white balance for fluourescent, which created a bit more blue tint to the colors.



10 Feb 2009

Coming clean

Bar of soap on the windowsill of the bathroom, through the muted sunlight coming through the screen (see last shot).




10 Feb 2009