I will readily admit that I really like Frank Gehry’s architecture.  The first of his building that I actually saw in person was this one.  I have taken photos here on at least four occasions and each and every time I have gotten very different looking images.  I took this one the same night as I took the previous two down town Los Angeles posts.

I learned that the guards do not allow tripods on the sidewalk next to building.  At least we could use tripods across the street from the concert hall.

I hope you like the image.

Scott

Here’s another image from the same trip I discussed in the post to the blog.  I walked around looking for interesting compositions within the city.  I really like the pedestrian bridge as it is an interesting structure.  I took several photos of it, but did not really like what I got, after a bit of looking I thought about placing it in the foreground with some buildings in the background and with the wide angle lens gave a view of the city that I fell really represents Los Angeles.

I hope you enjoy the image.

Scott

A couple of months ago I went with a group of photographers to photograph in downtown Los Angeles.  I found that LA was very quite at night with very few people or cars around.  I did not know that this park actually even existed and the sculpture in the foreground was very interesting.  The lights had not been on for very long when I took this photograph.  All in all it was a nice evening.

Thanks for looking!

Scott

In early April I drove up to San Simeon to view and photograph the elephant seals.  The colony is referred to as the Piedras Blanca colony and they are one of the places that has a facility for individuals to watch them.  Overall it was a good trip and I had a good time watching them.  I will need to return to be able to seethe large males with their huge proboscis as they are currently at rehabilitating themselves after being n the beach for many months for the breeding season.
As there are lots of photographs from this location I experimented to see if I could give one the sense of place for these seals.  These females and juveniles spent lots of time just napping on the beach.

Hope you enjoyed the photo,

Scott

If you have been following this blog for a while you will know that I visit and photograph Monrovia Falls on a monthly basis. Well, on April 5th I visited once again and it was raining. The rain and the unusual atmospherics gave me some images that were a little different, some of while I rather liked while some were not so good. I did used a pre-release version of Photoshop CS5 that allowed me to “repair” defects in the images.

The rain upstream had lots of soil and other particulates gave the brown color to the water and the foam gives more a sense of movement.

I hope you enjoyed the image,

Scott