Leica M-E

Repost: Wilshire Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 8/24/14

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Add Media: Repost from Sept 2014

L1062986-EditWe all see the button there. Imploring us to choose what we should post. What we should reveal to the world about the state of our art, work, and minds. I have probably a hundred images in my media library that were uploaded with the intentions of being shown but then something stopped me.

Usually it’s not just ambivalence about the image itself. But there’s a lot of that. I think what holds me up more than anything else is the matter of sequencing the images as a group which I think is always so key as to how they will or even should be seen or perceived. That is the hard part. And when images don’t go or make sense with other images, and in my case that’s probably most of them, it’s very hard to find a way to post them that works in my head.

Believe it or not. lol. But this blog has always been a reflection of those kinds of choices and rejections. I have to try to let go of that for a bit because I’m uploading now so many images to my WordPress media library that I am NOT using that I’m losing track of whatever plans I had for them or weak grip I had on something called organization.

So the point is, I suppose, to look for a lot of images and posts with images that don’t necessarily look like they should go together. At best. And thank you everyone who follows this blog and who ‘likes’ my posts or comments. I very much appreciate each and every one of you.

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Repost – Metro Stop: Wilshire Blvd, Santa Monica CA

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Return of the Mack – Reposted!

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Repost: Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, November 2014

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Viewers of Landscape

Each landscape is formed by the point of view of the spectator; it is a spiritual experience, the reflections of a culture. In a sense, therefore, the photographer first has to make a portrait of the people who muse over the landscape they behold. In thus placing himself behind them, he expresses both complicity with the natives and irony towards the invaders.

– Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1988

Magnum Landscapes
PHAIDON – 1996

Inglorious Color: Repost from March 2013

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Here is a link to the great website American Suburb X and a group of street photos by newly discovered street photography master Helen Levitt. The difference between these pictures and the vast majority of her other previously shown work is that these images are in amazing color.

Seeing those images this morning inspired me to share some of my recent shots. You know, I’ve always thought of myself as a black and white street photographer. But I rarely shoot black and white street photography. I really have done very little in B&W over the last ten years. I think I have to come to terms with the fact that I’m  a street photographer who works primarily in color.

Color is the only way to capture the parts of Los Angeles I continue to want to shoot most. Hope these images from my Leica M-E capture both the timeless grit and the gripping palate of colors of life in LA in 2013.

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Reading and Comprehension

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Feeding the Birds

Repost: Minimal Significance – January 2014

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Reposted: Weekend in LA (February 18, 2014)

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Dressed Smart in Beverly Hills

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State Social House, 7-26-15

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Christmas Eve Will Find Us

The Red White and Blue

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Riding the Curl

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More Urban Landscape

 

 

 

Outside the Wire: V.A. Hospital, Westwood CA, 9/2/14

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Must be Accompanied by a Parent or Guardian

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The Anti-Norman Rockwell in me strikes again.

I’m no Norman Rockwell…

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Not even a Ken. But I can’t deny the influence. (of Norman!) And I’d be happy if at least one person out there thought of me as the anti-Norman Rockwell. Just do it.

Low Light Street Shooting with the Zeiss 50mm 1.5 Sonnar

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All from a moving car, by the way. Not really worrying about ISO numbers or noise. I have to say, I shot with the 50mm 1.5 Sonnar for over a year on my M7. I’m probably more comfortable using it than any other M-mount lens. It’s very instinctive shooting for me. Love the color, sharpness, everything. Hope everyone enjoys the shots.

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Rodeo Drive Shop Window Mosaic

A Night in Beverly Hills with the Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH

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Now Appearing at the Roxy

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On the Sunset Strip

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Tire Shop, Pico Blvd. Los Angeles

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Girl, Bustop, West Los Angeles, April 2013

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I’ve never posted this picture because I always considered it such a painful failure. To focus the camera quickly enough. And it really bothered me for a long time. But now looking at it, I just remember the incredible moment, the light, the beauty and I don’t remember the pain of failure so much anymore.

Urban Portraits

Salvadoreño

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Tho I Walk Through the Valley…

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Learn Filmmaking

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Bending an Elbow on Sunset Boulevard

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Points of Departure

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Friends on a Leash

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