Summertime...

Not sure what it is but summertime in Los Angeles always puts me in a strange perspective...its quite different than NYC in the summer time. I seemingly have many more pictures in the process of existing than usual (yes it is a process!)I have recently given up motorcycle racing/track days to focus on making more images, perhaps its just that. My love of motorcycles and the meditation of going fast does take alot of time to make happen, for now I am only taking photos...its my new meditation. 

Covershot, fantasticsmag.

birds on a wire

view from behind my house, shot with iphone, with oldphoto app...damn this thing is cool...it sort of vinets, and has mad high contrast, a very cool look...something about telephone wires in LA, I love it! 

need to do pix here

something about hollywood blvd that is really special, the glam and the filth, all wrapped together...i need to make some photos here soon, its very special, in strange way...

(taken with iPhone 3Gs, with "oldcamera" app..)

Topanga story.

I love my retoucher!

In Production..Samantha at Next...raw images

This is LA! part one

Today I began a new body of work to help me visually document how I see LA,  titled 'This is LA!" Originally I thought I would be using strobe and daylight for this project, and actually began testing yesterday morning with the lights on location. Funny how sometimes your plans to make pictures lead you somewhere completely different....It took a few hours of doing various lighting tests on site but came to conclusion what I really need to capture along with the subjects, is the west coast light itself. So all I have come full circle and will be shooting the whole project daylight, but at only during the last few hours of light. It makes the project both more difficult and yet also easier. My intern Jesse (a huge help so far) is happy not to have to carry a Profoto pack around with him, but now we are confined to the only the last few hours of daylight. 

The first image I made for this project happened on Hollywood Blvd, June 1st , sometime around 4pm. The light and mood of the image worked out so perfect I cant believe its the first image for the project. Usually the first image you do is more of a "breaking down" of the photo process, your own ideas, and of course your self awareness of the image you have yet to capture. 

First images, this is LA! 

raw with some color correction.