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I pretty much stayed in the same spot to get this photo of both the bookstore and the lantern. With Christmas over and the only other holiday that involves decorations a month away (Valentine's Day), the Chinese New Year Lantern is now in place.
Had I managed to get up about five to ten minutes earlier, I think I could have gotten a better shot of the clouds just before sunrise. As it is, the sun was already burning brightly on the horizon. Oh, well, with the changes in the season, I should be able to get more and better sunrises just from standing on the porch.
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When I got up this morning, the smoke looked like this to the east. It's not that the worst is over, far from it. The worst is not over. But the winds have died down, which kept the smoke from being pushed towards the southwest and into Glendale. For this morning, the smoke drifted to the south. Once could still smell the smoke in the air, and during most of the morning ashes would float down like snowflakes. That ended by the afternoon.
As long as the Troy Burger restaurant remains open I am optimistic about the fate of Glendale.
the memorial in glendale cemetery, akron...this cemetery has some of the finest mausoleums in the city!
scans from negatives taken in the early 1990's
I shot this still last week. I had just seen "Nosferatu," and I was leaving the AMC theaters, dropping briefly by Barnes & Noble, and then heading home to feed my two cats. In other words, another exciting day.
The clouds were building up and it was cooling down, so there wasn't much else to do outside, except to walk home and warm up.
I took a walk over to the Americana on a Sunday afternoon. It's a great place to go, as it is largely free (except for buying stuff there, which I don't always do). The digital video marquee to the AMC theaters had this on display. Billionaire Rick Caruso owns the Americana, and he probably pays AMC to run such messages on the marquee. If you want to know what movies are playing in there, you have to walk inside and check the digital video boards above the box office/counter. The guy on the left with the black jacket, khaki pants and sunglasses was a security guard who had his eye on me, for some reason. (I say that because just about everyone whipped out their phones to take photos of this place.)
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Looking towards Glendale Marina, in Gilford, NH
The odd bluish lighting on the trees and buildings come from the clear sky behind me, to the north. It's ambient lighting from the sky, rendering a color temperature that is 5600 Degrees Kelvin, or perhaps higher. It created an off, if not unsettling, contrast to the warmer colors from the smoke, in some instances, the black smoke as well.
Fortunately, we weren't hit with flying embers, but the velocity of the wind could have made that a reality. If you check the Google map and see where the Eaton Fire is, and Altadena, in proximity of Glendale (I live west of the 2 freeway), you'll see how we were very close to the danger zone.
I went over to the Glendale Central Library to see if the Day of the Dead display had been taken down yet. Not only had it not been taken down, more displays had been added to it. This was one of them: a rather large ofrenda located between the steps to take patrons to the main book area on the first floor. I thought it was nicely arranged too.
This photo was taken a few weeks back, but the house had been put together to be almost finished. I was standing where the house used to be, and had been, for so many years, at least the ten where I had been living in Glendale. Behind me was the Louis Vuitton store. I waited for late afternoon to get this image.
I stepped closer to grab this image of Santa's House, all lit up from every possible angle and source. I guess this would have been the last night for everyone to get their orders in before Christmas Eve.
I'm sure the Americana will be pretty quiet Christmas Day, except perhaps for moviegoers showing up to see the newest releases.
Usually the water shoots up to surround the statue. That didn't happen the night I was at the Americana. Maybe management was afraid some water would splash on people in line waiting to see Santa. Now that Christmas is over maybe the fountain can go back to normal operation.
I wanted to shoot video of the water shooting up, but after a while I gave up, set the camera to shoot stills, and got this instead.
Just a fun little shot of the moon over a very foggy Glendale, California. The fog is blocking out the view of the distant mountain, and also a lot of surrounding Los Angeles city lights, isolating the main part of the city in the dark. The moon is exposed properly because the fog darkened it so much. Normally it would blow out because of a 4-7 stop difference.
I hadn't been over to the Americana since the fires of last week. Santa's House is being dismantled and boxed up, and while that is going on the huge red lantern for Chinese New Year has gone up. This is the first time I've taken a photo of the lantern with my new Samsung. The colors and details look pretty good.