Dawn on the Santa Monica pier, with compulsive walker and Ferris wheel.
I waited a while for something like this guy to happen in this setting, and for the lights on the wheel to be nice, and the surf to be breaking.
Too bad the surf was not curling and holding the dawn and pier light a bit, but the rest of it worked out just fine.
Dawn on the Santa Monica pier, with fisherman and surf.
I asked what he might catch and listed a number of species, including halibut.
I’ve caught halibut – that rod won’t do the job.
This photo was taken on the way to a lecture that Sam Abell gave the night before our workshop started.
I had been interested in how the fabric hoarding (more…)
This is photographer Sam Abell instructing the workshop that I attended at the Los Angeles Center of Photography.
To start off the class each of us presented eight images we had selected for the purpose.
Sam asked a lot of questions and provided commentary about the photos, and that is what he is doing in this photograph.
He was always kind and encouraging in ways that (more…)
I was walking up this street with Melinda Green Harvey while we were taking Sam Abell‘s workshop in Los Angeles and we both had the same idea for a photo at the same time.
Melinda’s can be seen here – I like hers because the person under the shoe is cringing a bit, as they should be.
I like mine because it includes an advertisement for a photographer, which seems really appropriate.
I am a bit annoyed though because (more…)
This is another setting from the Los Angeles airport.
I was returning from a weekend workshop with photographer Sam Abell and was interested to use his methods for bringing some order to the chaos of an airport.
This image was made on the corner of Olvera Street, near the Los Angeles Union Station, at night after the bar and before dinner.
I was framing a shot of this doorway so that Hitty Tansy could have her photo taken here.
Tansy is interested in social justice.
But, instead, this man came and (more…)
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