Refugio Beach water actions

Pacific Ocean at Refugio State Beach, Goleta, CA, August 2018

CicLAvia Southeast Cities - ActionSampler

With CicLAvia up this weekend (6th anniversery of this awesomeness!!!!), it's time for me to pull up some photos from past events! This group is from the SouthEast cities CicLAvia this past May.

Watts towers!

Rainbow Slide

Shot these back in June I think... this is an art school in Pasadena w/ my Actionsampler

Burning Man 2016 - ActionSampled

... the story of my actionsampler... I took it along to Burning Man and realized it would be super fun at our camp, especially when people were bouncing on the giant trampoline, running around or doing their flow arts. Awesome! Then I realized I didn't bring along enough 35mm film. Too bad because I really like how some of the photos I shot turned out, but I will enjoy these for what they are!

it was kinda soothing to watch the fabric panels in our geodesic dome flutter in the wind...

trampoline time

driving to Burning Man!

Grey Crowned Crane - actionsampled

this crane seemed equally interested in me and what I was doing as I was it and what it was doing....

Grey Crowned Crane as shot with Lomography Actionsampler 35mm film camera 12/2015

Actionsampler in Downtown LA

this building appears in the Lady Gaga "Telephone" video. Right along the LA river between
Chinatown area and Lincoln Heights....

The sky started spinning....

City Legs

City Legs on Colorado, Pasadena, CA, December 31, 2015; Shot with Lomography Actionsampler

Downtown LA afternoon, actionsampler

Last month I took the subway to downtown LA with a friend visting LA for a little while. We spent the afternoon wandernig around, visiting the Grand Central Market and the Last Bookstore and enjoying downtown LA for what it is right now in 2015....

going up the subway escalator....

downtown LA

Just a Moment

just a trim, just a spin

rustle, rustle

kitty, nope.

actionsampler, November 2015

Sky landscape actions

More photos from my first roll of film from the Lomography Actioncamera, this time mostly landscapes. Although this camera isn't the best for landscapes for a variety of reasons, sometimes you just have to go with what you have and this camera's been in my bag most consistently the last few weeks. What's interesting is how similar some of the landscapes look over the space of a second, while others I have to wonder if the variation is mostly due to slight difference in lens placement for each 1/4 of the photo or just slight changes over time. Part of why I love giant open spaces at times is that although there's so much going on and things constantly changing, when you get back far enough and adjust your perspective, it's so much calmer for the most part (outside of major events) and often the most obvious changes are how the light constantly shifts. I need a lack of overwhelming details sometimes.

I don't always give the view of the mountains from my company's office the credit it deserves....

DogFluff Action

I don't really recall seeing dogs tied up in front of stores where I grew up in Texas. On the other hand, here in Los Angeles people are well known for integrating their dogs into their daily city lives and leaving your dog tied up outside is definitely a "thing" (I know it is other places re: the Portlandia sketch)... Some of these unsupervised dogs are aggressive towards any random people while others are happy to meet any new people and say hi. Some seem distressed to be away from their owners while others seem glad to have a chance to rest and chill alone. Over the years of shooting photos while walking around Los Angeles, I've enjoyed trying to capture these guys in photos in whatever states.

Just this evening while running an errand, I got to visit with a little brown Chihuahua type guy who was super friendly and came running over to me as soon as I said hi, eager for ear scratches and general love. I'm currently in one of the longest periods of my life that I've gone without a pet (3 months already!) and I suppose I treasure these little moments of connecting with random animal friends more than normal.

A couple weeks ago while coming home from the farmers market, I spotted this little fluffy guy tied up to a parking meter....I'm looking forward to shooting these dogs and other city animals with the actionsampler as I think this camera can give a little more life to these guys!

Actionsampler samples!

A few weeks ago I picked up a Lomography ActionSampler camera. This cheap camera has 4 separate lenses (Lomography also makes other models with multiple lenses) that expose 1/4 of a negative with a slight delay between each firing. The result is a tiny 4 scene movie or in the case of more stationary scenes, 4 slightly different perspectives (this lecture by David Hockey on perspective is interesting in light of this camera!), on a single negative.  These are the first few photos from the first roll. Just like most camera, it does seem to have a learning curve in terms of light/film needed as well as what sorts of situations "work" with the camera. I think this is the first camera I've  used that doesn't really have a viewfinder at all... instead it just has a tiny plastic frame that flips up to let you better guess what's going to happen.... the joys of lomography!

driving on the 101 towards Hollywood

seasons actually do exist in Los Angeles!

while driving in Silver Lake we saw this guy jamming down the street in a bike-like area in his wheelchair! WHaaaaaAAA! The real crazy part though was watching him just go straight through a red light (I guess his wheelchair didn't have brakes to handle his speed?) and all of the cars with the green light having to stop. At least he's rare enough to catch attention, but I was a bit scared for him considering he didn't have lights or a super reflective wheelchair.