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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: charlie on June 01, 2016, 09:19:58

Title: Los Angeles +
Post by: charlie on June 01, 2016, 09:19:58: I was photographing areas of greater Los Angeles and these scenes stuck with me for what ever reason.

On a hill just north of Downtown, East LA trailing off in the background

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1908.jpg)

The view looking the other way

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1928-copy1.jpg)

A couple more scenes both within a few miles of downtown to the north

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1394-copy1.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1899.jpg)
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: Jakov Minić on June 01, 2016, 09:34:29: Charlie, the sunset shot is very good.
The last street one with the land posts makes me wonder, why so many :)
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: Ron Scubadiver on June 01, 2016, 14:41:04: The last one could have been in Mexico.
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: John Geerts on June 01, 2016, 14:46:53: The second one is smashing. The first one very intriguing, what happened to those back gardens? Caught in erosion?
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Post by: armando_m on June 01, 2016, 17:55:06: all the images are interesting, thanks for sharing them
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: Anirban Halder on June 01, 2016, 19:48:56: Charlie - the second shot is legendary. I like remaining ones as well, very contrasty.
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: charlie on June 01, 2016, 19:56:35: Thanks for your comments.

Quote from: Jakov Minić on June 01, 2016, 09:34:29
The last street one with the land posts makes me wonder, why so many :)

Precisely why I stopped and made the picture.

Quote from: John Geerts on June 01, 2016, 14:46:53
The first one very intriguing, what happened to those back gardens? Caught in erosion?

Not exactly sure whats going on there. It is hard to know where one property line ends and another begins. You may notice just to the right of the old dirt road/trail is another photographer shooting the city.
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: charlie on June 01, 2016, 20:01:22: The neighborhood is named Glassell Park and this, apparently, is their take on the Hollywood sign which used to read Hollywoodland. It used to be higher up on the hill for more people to see.

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1486-copy3.jpg)

Highland Park. The car belongs to the man in the white T-shirt who is presumably the owner of the Tattoo shop.

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC0389-copy1.jpg)
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: pluton on June 01, 2016, 20:06:09: Dusk and pre-dawn are the most visually interesting times of day here in the great semi-arrid megalopolis.
You have exploited them well.
Jakov, The USA was founded on the divorcement of aesthetics from the use/management of the land and landscape.
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: charlie on June 02, 2016, 00:45:39: Indeed it is, thanks Keith.

Chinatown

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC0961-copy1.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1137.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1035-copy1.jpg)

Not Chinatown

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1326-copy1.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1352-copy1.jpg)
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: Jakov Minić on June 02, 2016, 14:35:15: Quote from: pluton on June 01, 2016, 20:06:09
Dusk and pre-dawn are the most visually interesting times of day here in the great semi-arrid megalopolis.
You have exploited them well.
Jakov, The USA was founded on the divorcement of aesthetics from the use/management of the land and landscape.

Keith, you made me laugh!
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: charlie on June 07, 2016, 20:34:04: Downtown

The Santee Alley

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1441-copy1.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1491-copy1.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1471-Edit.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC1446-copy1.jpg)
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: Jakov Minić on June 07, 2016, 23:05:00: Cool shades Charlie!

I wonder why I never see LA in such a way in movies...
I mean, if you were to drop me there on those streets, I wouldn't guess that I was in USA :-\
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: Peter Connan on June 10, 2016, 19:51:35: Some great photos here, but the second one is absolutely beautiful!
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: charlie on June 11, 2016, 03:52:56: Thank you, Peter.

Quote from: Jakov Minić on June 07, 2016, 23:05:00
I wonder why I never see LA in such a way in movies...
I mean, if you were to drop me there on those streets, I wouldn't guess that I was in USA :-\

You probably do see Los Angeles this way in the movies, its just that they are pretending its not Los Angeles.
The greater Los Angeles area can look like many things.

Speaking of which, here is Venice.

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC2687.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC2692.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC2862.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC2851.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC2897.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC2930-Edit.jpg)

(http://charliechipman.com/media/original/_DSC2963.jpg)
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: Andrea B. on June 11, 2016, 08:26:44: uh huh yeah you see *good* with that camera. you got LA alrighty. the light & the tones. now make it a gallery exhibition. and a book. this is good stuff.

Revival Tattoos and Hop Louie - so cool.
3rd Venice shot - perfect. Still looks the way I remember it.

(Wistful now. There is just no other place like California. Which is a silly thing to say because everyplace is like no other place. But still ---> California. Your photos are making me feel it.)

Skate park at dawn - the bowl's just waiting for the the sound of the boards......Love that one.
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: pluton on June 11, 2016, 20:23:16: Quote from: Andrea B. on June 11, 2016, 08:26:44

Skate park at dawn - the bowl's just waiting for the the sound of the boards......Love that one.

It's not dawn. Skaters don't get up early.
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: Andrea B. on June 11, 2016, 20:32:54: ok, dusk then, whenever.
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: charlie on June 12, 2016, 18:32:42: Thanks, Andrea, for your input.
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Post by: David H. Hartman on June 13, 2016, 14:24:14: Charlie,

Thank you for posting these photographs. I used to live in Glendale, California about 25 years ago. I think I lived about 7 miles from LA civic center. Many of the streets in your photographs look so familiar. I drove a delivery truck for a printing company in the early '70s. I remember the Morrison Hotel and Hard Rock Cafe seen on the front and back of the Doors album Morrison Hotel. I wish I'd carried a camera with me in those days.

Best,

Dave
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: charlie on June 15, 2016, 18:48:23: David, my pleasure. Glad they brought back some memories, I live just a few minutes from Glendale and sever of the first post are not to far from there. Both the Morrison Hotel and the Hard Rock Cafe on that album cover are different places now, I suppose that could be said for all of Los Angeles.
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Post by: elsa hoffmann on June 15, 2016, 18:53:37: Too many nice ones!!!
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: charlie on June 15, 2016, 19:52:43: Quote from: elsa hoffmann on June 15, 2016, 18:53:37
Too many nice ones!!!

Next time I'll try for less nice ones :)
Title: Re: Los Angeles +
Post by: elsa hoffmann on June 15, 2016, 20:33:41: Quote from: charlie on June 15, 2016, 19:52:43
Next time I'll try for less nice ones :)

yes please - I had photo envy