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Daily photo for 1/22/12 - Venice Pier at Dusk
Tripod, Nikon D80, 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 at 18mm, ND grad filter, f/22, ISO 100, 6 second exposure
Timing - Although I arrived before sunset, I waited for a while afterwards to get these colors. The sun set at 5:15; this shot was taken about 5:30. Continue reading »
On 8/21/10, my wife and I joined about 30 other Angelenos on a tour of the Los Angeles River. The trip was organized and publicized by Hidden Los Angeles, and led by Jenny Price, an environmental writer/advocate/cool person.
The tour consisted of 5 stops along the 52-mile river, from the channelized drainage system that we all know and love from the movies to areas that have abundant vegetation and wildlife. It was quite eye-opening to see the extremes and to learn the history of the river – Los Angeles wouldn’t exist without it.
See more photos at www.jawsnap.net/misc/lariver2010.
Fishing on the Los Angeles River
Books! - LA Central Library
Ann and I visited the LA Central Library this morning and got a great tour, along with some of my coworkers. We try to take advantage of all that LA has to offer, so we jumped at the opportunity to get a tour like this. Of course, it turns out that anyone can take a tour. It’s a great old building, constructed in 1926 and renovated/expanded after fires in 1986, reopening in 1993. There’s interesting art all around, inside and out, plus the wonderful resources of a great public library. They had cool exhibits of Richard Neutra drawings/sketches and Yousuf Karsh photographs. If you live in the area or are visiting, I can definitely recommend checking it out. Here’s a map of it.
As expected, I took a lot of shots. Many turned out well, although I was pushing some pretty high ISO values indoors. For you non-photo-people, that means it was dark for the camera, so it had to compensate by using a higher sensitivity (ISO), which results in a noisy, grainy images. There were so many meaningful details, it was pretty fun to photograph. Below are my favorite shots of the day.
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