In the Shadows
street photography
The Shaft of Light
Gestalt Moment
Poochie
Feed the Meter
The Street Don’t Lie
Untitled: Western Ave
How to Wait
Greetings From Last April
Sometimes you’re just not sure about a shot. I take many like that. Sometimes I wonder if those aren’t the actual good shots. Anyway. These three are from last Spring and I’m sure about them now. I’d just acquired my 90 Elmarit and although I’d seen incredible results already, I was still trying to figure out how to focus that lens on the fly. Now I realize I never will and have resigned myself to that reality. 😉 Please enjoy responsibly.
Riding on Air With the 50’Lux – Part Two
More images from this past Sunday with the incredible Leica 50mm Summilux 1.4 ASPH. Again, whatever virtues these image have are most likely to reveal themselves if you click on them and view the much larger, processed for that size, resolution versions. And thank you for visiting!
Riding on Air With the 50’Lux – Part One
Sometimes I don’t use a particular Leica lens for a while, maybe just to see if I could live without it. Well, of course I could live without any or all of them. But I’m not sure you could call that living. (winking!)
Anyway. I hadn’t shot this website’s namesake lens for a couple of months. I was just loving my 50mm Summicron (Canada) that much, along with the incredible 90mm Elmarit 2.8.
Every time I go back to a lens I’ve been neglecting, it always seems to let me know what kind of fool I really am. The 50’Lux came down hard and lovely on my conscience. Color is different from every other lens. I’ve called it ‘comic book’ color and I stand by that, although these images which are processed might not show that aspect as well as the RAW files.
It may not be quite as sharp as either of my ‘Crons, or quite have that classic Leica sizzle. But the Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH is the Scarlet Johansson of camera lenses. Overwhelmingly smooth and delicious. You really have to click on the images here to see a larger version to see how amazing this lens is.
These were all shot yesterday, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2013, on a relatively short ride around certain parts of Los Angeles. Happy to be able to take you all along with us. Me and Scarlet that is. (winking, again!)
Under the Golden Dome
The September of Our Years
Bring Me the File on Posture Please…
Give it a minute. 😉
Looking Over His Shoulder
Friends, Accessorized
A Mother’s Grace
Edited the title. I don’t know why I didn’t see it before. But I kind of did.
Friends in Sepia
I’m sure he just looks like he’s up to no good
I’m talking about the bronze panther! Why? What did you think I was referring to?  😉
Soft Colors on Rodeo Drive
Remembering Sheri today with a picture she would have liked.
All Your Ducks, So Not in a Row
Legs Crossed
It was bound to happen to me sooner or later.  A dark haired beauty in her black uniform. And a crow. Oh sure. Just keep shooting, fellow street photogs. Your Elliott Erwitt moment will come someday, too. Whether you’re looking for it to or not.  😉
Focus, you say? That would have been too much to ask I suppose.
Love Green
Free WiFi
The Counsel of Beauty
Life Imitates
Crush of Tourists
La Reina Blanca
Figure, Ground… Part Two
Wheels and Sneakers
Something About Men and Walls and Glass
Rocco’s Pizza, Wilshire Blvd
Lovely and Adorable
Untitled: Western Ave.
The Accessorized Male, Two Versions
Never saw a woman so alone
It’s only a lyric from the Doors’ classic LA Woman. Not saying the images don’t reflect my impressions based on the postures and expressions of the subjects of these photographs. But they’re only my creative  projections. Don’t sue me, ladies!
Kind of Blue
Generations
She’s Just Not That Into You
Body Language
Still Fiercely a Man
It’s Chinatown, Jake…
Great article on LA’s Chinatown and the decline and changes that have occurred there in the last two decades. Read it here.
Ladrillo Rojo
Inked Up
Hollywood Jewels: Part 2
Hollywood Jewels: Part 1
Conspicuous Consumption
Fast glass in fading light…
Moments
The Unconventional Sharing of a Hoodie
Public transportation, the lowly bus, doesn’t roll over the rarified pavement of Santa Monica’s Montana Avenue anywhere near as often as it does a mile or so south, on the more common asphalt of Wilshire Blvd. So these ladies were waiting a long time on a gloomy chilly late afternoon just a stone’s throw from the icy Pacific. July notwithstanding. Sooner or later people will do what they have to to keep warm. The not-poor things. 😉 Top photo is the last (or thereabouts) in the sequence.
50'Lux 