dear, los angeles.

I love Los Angeles. I love photographing Los Angeles. I love living in Los Angeles. It's my home. It is a part of me.

The DCH is a puzzler of a building. It sits in the middle of Downtown where modern and classic collides; where the business professionals walk alongside the homeless; where the city becomes interesting.

I enjoy photographing LA because it is unlike any other city in the world, for better or worse. Unless you're a native Angeleno, you're oblivious to the luster of a place that can be both ugly and beautiful. Los Angeles has an amazing urban landscape that I choose to spotlight. I don't care to look at its mountains, trees, or streams. Those elements are not unique; they exist in every environment. But the people and culture in this city can exist only in this city. Thats what I want to show.

THAT PEACE OF MIND

Wishing I was back there again. Shot pool side at Ocho cascade Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Landscape in my eyes

To me landscape is:
Land with something interesting or beautiful....outside, nature etc.

I wish I could post my favorite but they are watermarked with my name and wish to remain anonymous here.

Land and sea scape

I love photography and I am grateful in having the opportunity to take this class with like interested photographers. These are landscape with water.

The only "landscape" picture I have taken that I like, a lot.

I guess I should make this post a little bit longer. I said before I really feel like this blog can get to be something really big, and from the posts below this one now really prove that.

I have a problem stretching what I am used to, and where my "box" is. When I think landscape I think of your typical shot of a mountain or river, but I'd like to be able to think of other things as "landscape". I guess this shot to me is sort of my interpretation of landscape just a few months ago. I hope to expand from this.

PERSPECTIVE

I like experimenting with perspective using DOF, camera angle and low light conditions. While in Bath, England I took a lot of pictures - most were just ordinary. But I thought this image was interesting because of the depth of field and camera angle. I was shooting with my Canon 40D in full automatic. Since we were touring I didn't want to spend a lot of time adjusting in manual mode.

Montmatre Paris, FR. November 2010

Once you reach the church at the top of the hill, hundreds of stairs past the carousel and the Moulin Rouge, past Amelie's enigmatic clues, you turn around to see all of Paris below you. It is a sprawling urban landscape shaped by both history and the arts. This was my first attempt at creating and shooting a seemingly panoramic picture using Cs4 (it took 9 pictures maybe?). Shot on my RebelT2i. And surprisingly I didn't use a tripod!