Los Angeles +

[Andrea B.]

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.

[pluton]

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.

[Andrea B.]

ok, dusk then, whenever.

[charlie]

Thanks, Andrea, for your input.

[David H. Hartman]

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

[charlie]

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.

[elsa hoffmann]

Too many nice ones!!!

[charlie]

Too many nice ones!!!

Next time I'll try for less nice ones 

[elsa hoffmann]

Next time I'll try for less nice ones 

yes please - I had photo envy