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

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

I gave myself a project to photograph Monrovia Falls over a year.  Well, I have continued it for longer than a year and I have been struggling with photos the different scenes one will see while hiking to the falls.  I have seen this part of the creek for some time now and I have not been able to get a photograph of it the I actually liked.  I took this photo on Monday of this week.

My dad passed away yesterday and I could not sleep so I processed a number of pictures in the early hours of this morning.  I thik he would have really liked this one.

Thanks for looking,

Scott

I hiked to Sturtevant Falls to check it out since the last time I was there with Cynde the water level was very low.  The water flow is greater than in July, but still does not compare to the photos I have seen of the falls.  I’m hoping for a wet winter with lots of snow in the mountains then maybe I can see the large flows of water that were present in the past.  I had a good hike anyway and enjoyed the trip.

Sturtevant Falls in Octobe

Hope you liked the photo,

Scott