Open for Business – Repost from Dec. 2014
street photography
Color Commentary – Repost from December 2014
Inglorious Color: Repost from March 2013
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.
Reading and Comprehension
Feeding the Birds
Reposted: Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica – 03/07/15
Dedicated to our friend Eric’s dad, a great photographer and father, who passed away this week.
Repost: Chestnut In Blue – January 2015
Repost: Under This Flag 1/15/14
Repost: Minimal Significance – January 2014
Reposted: Weekend in LA (February 18, 2014)
Reposted: My Sunday Morning in Vivian Maier’s Chicago
My first outing with the Leica M9 back in 2011 was a weekend trip to Chicago. I only could afford the wonderful Leica 35mm Summarit after shelling out the money for what was my dream camera at that moment. I’d never heard of Vivian Maier at that point, as most people hadn’t. But, save for the color, this first shot I think captures a bit of the spirit of shooting on a Chicago sidewalk as she so often did. Anyway. Here’s some more. I think in some of them there is wonderful color. In others, uh… a hint of the incredible struggles to come I would experience trying to produce passable color with my M9.
Happy New Year!
Dressed Smart in Beverly Hills
In a Monochromatic Mood
Untitled: Pico Boulevard
State Social House, 7-26-15
Documents
The Red White and Blue
Riding the Curl
More Urban Landscape
Can Wear Stripes
Untitled
Go Metro
Outside the Wire: V.A. Hospital, Westwood CA, 9/2/14
Click for larger resolution image.
Must be Accompanied by a Parent or Guardian
The Anti-Norman Rockwell in me strikes again.
I’m no Norman Rockwell…
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.
The Three Graces
One of the more controversial posts I’ve ever made… because of the title. Oh well. Reblog!!!
I took this shot about five years ago and have never really shown it to anyone. I think the reason for that is that I never thought I could adequately explain how amazing it is to me. I guess I’ve felt it needed explaining and I guess I’m finally in the mood now to try.
No part of the West LA area is really that bad. But this is nearly as gritty a corner on the Westside as there is. It’s directly underneath the intersection of the 405 and 10 freeways, which is to say, the junction of the two busiest roadways in the United States of America. There are homeless people camped out under the overpasses and exit ramps. It was fairly late in the evening. The feel there at that hour is probably worse than the reality. Or vice versa. Who really knows?
I travel by that way innumerable…
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Low Light Street Shooting with the Zeiss 50mm 1.5 Sonnar
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.
A Night in Beverly Hills with the Leica 50mm Summilux ASPH
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Grand Opening
Don’t Try This At Home
The Way Forward
Now Appearing at the Roxy
On the Sunset Strip
Tire Shop, Pico Blvd. Los Angeles
Girl, Bustop, West Los Angeles, April 2013
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.
Basically, Why I Bother to Live and Shoot…
One of my favorite crazy light spots. The grit and color of real people living real lives. The 50mm Leica Summicron doing what it does and has always done. Nailing reality to a frame of film or to a digital camera sensor. I’ve got nothing else to say.
Pictures of a Bus Stop (REBLOG)
I think images should require something from the person who is looking upon them. A photograph doesn’t or shouldn’t have to be obvious in order to be something that holds some value. I think this image could be taken as an example of that. I don’t want to say much more about the picture itself. It either makes a statement to you or it doesn’t. It made a statement to me.
Now it has a sequel. The top image was shot almost a year ago and was taken with the Zeiss 50mm Sonnar 1.5. I think the color representation of that lens is evident in the image. That lens is just stellar and classic. The second image, the one at the bottom of this post, was taken with the Leica 50mm Summilux 1.4 ASPH, and I think the color signature of that lens is also amazingly evident in this shot.
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Urban Portraits
Salvadoreño
Tho I Walk Through the Valley…
More Long Forgotten But Not Gone Pictures
Still Super Heroes
Three from the Leica M9 Days
American Ultra
Strike a Pose
Learn Filmmaking
Love in a Parking Garage
Pink Dot
50'Lux 