Dozens of angels now stand in Grand Park downtown Los Angeles
by What a lovely discovery! I went to downtown L.A. to photograph the skaters in Pershing Square, then became distracted by all the anti-Trump demonstrators’ signs …
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Beautiful Day of the Dead altars in Grand Park, Los Angeles
This year a group called Lore Productions “curated” some of the large altars for Grand Park. Their altars were large and professional in appearance, like …
Ballerina limbering up on the Metro in Los Angeles
Okay. It is 2 days before Halloween so maybe she was just in costume and going off to a party, but there she was stretching …
Time-lapse Los Angeles and a sculpture on a street corner
A new video was published on Vimeo this week and is deservedly getting a lot of mentions. It is a time-lapse view of Los Angeles…well, …
Riding in an Awesome Pedicab in the heart of Los Angeles CicLAvia
Sometimes wishes do come true. Photographing the Chinatown Hub on Broadway had been my plan for the CicLAvia Heart of L.A. event on Sunday, but …
Finally…a visit to Rodia’s Towers, an homage to Marco Polo and a desire to be remembered
Sabato ‘Simon’ Rodia was a small man, only 4 foot 11 inches tall. Somewhere inside him, however, was a goal to ‘do something big’ so …
The 35th Watts Drum Festival was a multi-cultural experience
The Watts Towers have been on my list of places to visit and then last week I noticed that there was a drum festival going …
The gentrification of the Los Angeles River is underway and it isn’t pretty!
Thanks to 1 or 2 million dollars of taxpayers’ money Frank Gerhy’s gang of experts working for the River L.A group earlier this year produced …
The Great L.A. River Race in kayaks was not so great.
It was billed as the Third Annual L.A. River Race, and maybe I was expecting too much. I wasn’t anticipating kayak races like those in …
Ambling along the Los Angeles River pathway from Frog Spot to Marsh Park
The white gravel spread across the landscape at the Frog Spot, the activity center for the Friends of the Los Angeles River, is blinding in …