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24-May-2025 TRAVELLER

Most Photographer's Can Shoot a Window Reflection...Some Cannot...LOL

Jim, I know I am flooding the Zone, but you have Madera Canyon, Dave has his automobiles and Paul makes everything uniquely his own. To the contrary, I have an urban world with 13 million wonderful and differing people. This entire series is taking advantage of these glories. Neither my trip to LACMA or the Getty should have been successful in that the horrors of Los Angeles traffic, parking, and just a crush of people made both trips seemingly difficult. And short, 90 minutes here, two hours there.

But I love some of this work, sometimes the symmetry, the balance, the colors, and of course, humans existing in a cultivated urban space. I will pare these down soon...they are probably for somewhere else anyway...but I thought they may be fun here also.

Canon EOS 6D Mark II
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Date/Time24-May-2025 19:47:54
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Canon Image Challenge07-Jun-2025 10:48
Dave, this isn't actually a window or a mirror...this is a stainless steel plate that was initially installed to block tourist entry...but the place has become iconic like a circus fun-room mirror...so naturally fun. Traveller
Canon Image Challenge06-Jun-2025 11:31
I'm trying to imagine what you said to the woman to get her to pose with you. And I wonder whether mirrorless cameras are better at focusing in such situations.

Dave
Canon Image Challenge28-May-2025 20:36
Jim, there are several factors going on. First, there was a CNBC article on the difficulty of building in Los Angeles. A number of people emailed me the article or called me on it questioning how I could live in the hellscape that is Southern California. California has just become the fourth largest economy in the world, and this General idea that people are suffering from a lack of community and that life is just generally bad, is something I wanted to refute.

Except for our politics, we have never had it so good. Our cars are fabulous considering what they were in the 50s and '60s, medicine is wonderful and leaps and bounds over what was before. Housing is much better than it has ever been, we all live in semi marble palaces now, as opposed to the clapboard shoddy Construction of the 1950s and 60s and 70s. I'm somewhat of a specialist in housing from my time as a city planner and code enforcement officer and so many slums have been cleared out and the general housing stock is so much better, I just need to make proof of what is actually and really going on in the world.

As a final note, I grew up at least in part on a farm without running water or indoor plumbing. Going to the bathroom as a child in the dead of winter was a true adventure. I was a worker in the hard industries for a while, working conditions were hard and often unsafe. I in war and looking back, all I see from here is amazement and good fortune.

It is Springtime, a time of hope, let's get to it.

Best Wishes, Traveller

PS: I have my heart surgery coming up, I get not one, but two heart pacemakers (!), and an abrasion in my right atrium. The world looks lovely to me. I appreciate spring....
Canon Image Challenge27-May-2025 16:33
T- these are definitely fun to see. I could also say I have Tucson, but it is certainly much different from LA.
Perhaps the topic of Spring helped to stimulate this burst of city photos.

Jim