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Another from the infamous 110 overpass in Downtown Los Angeles. This spot seriously never gets old. I'm still going through this monotone phase, obviously. I need to get out of town.
A heavy handed re-edit of a really old pic. There was a point in time when this was my most viewed photo. I had the 7d for about two weeks when this pic was taken. I've really learned a lot since then. The hue/saturation changes are red/blue instead of the cinematic teal/orange. I think I prefer the almost magenta to the orange. Well, for this pic anyway.
Sunset Shot of Down Town Los Angeles after an afternoon rain shower. Rain has been hitting LA the last few weeks and has been intermittently covering the mountains with clouds providing a winder mix of colors on the clouds during the sunset. I love the purple hughes on these clouds which add a pastoral look above the city buildings.
The tallest building West of the Mississippi, for now. They're building an observation deck that should be open early 2016. That's exciting, we have one more than zero of them in Downtown now. Things are on an upswing in this area.
I know I said I was done with this location. This morning had its obvious exception. In a previous post, I talked about going to the same spot, over and over again, waiting for the perfect weather to get the best pic. I was in the neighborhood and the sky looked like it had lots of potential for some pre-dawn colors. It had been a while since I was lucky enough to get some sunrise colors so I was a little extra excited. I made my way to this spot and posted up and refused to move my tripod. I'll sometimes bounce around and take many pics and try to find a composition that I like. Not this time. I knew exactly what I wanted. I stayed put and waited for the colors to show. Sunrises are opposite of sunsets in that with a sunset you wait for the sun to hit the horizon and then a moment passes and the colors shine. With a sunrise there is no visible cue as to when the light show is going to start. It just gets brighter and brighter and then a hint of it and then just when you think it's over: BOOM there it is. And there it goes. And then it's over and the day has begun. All within about eight minutes. Such is the life of a landscape photographer. Waiting for those amazing moments eight minutes at a time.