Category: Photography (mine)

With the sun going down so early these days, I felt like I really wanted to get out an enjoy it on the weekend while I could. With that goal in mind, I headed up to Malibu Creek State Park for a hike to Century Lake. That’s a really nice hike. There’s a lot of…

I drove up to Downtown LA so I could check out Union Station. The building and the chairs and everything have such classic feel to them. It’s really too bad they don’t build things like that anymore. By comparison, LAX, which I guess would be like a modern equivalent, feels sterile and way less relaxed.…

This morning, I took a drive up to Agoura Hills to check out the Paramount Ranch. It was kind of cool. It’s a federal park where they shot a whole bunch of westerns and stuff. The group I went with had a federal park ranger to give us a tour and put on a big…

I went to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles today. My main goal was to take Pictures of Butterflies. The Pavilion of Wings was OK. It was a little smaller than I expected. I don’t know why I assumed there’d be some giant field with wild butterflies everywhere, but it’s basically just a tiny…

I’d never been to the Norton Simon Museum before. I had some time today though, so I made the trek up to Pasadena. I was really impressed. That’s a very nice museum. It’s not the largest museum, but their collection is still great and surprisingly diverse. Plus, they let metake a bunch of photos, so…

Today I took a tour of the UCLA sculpture garden. It wasn’t quite what I expected, but it was still pretty cool. Yes, I had my camera with me.

There’s an amazing botanical garden right in my backyard. I didn’t even know it was there, but if you live in the Torrance, Rancho Palos Verdes area, you have to check it out. It’s just off Crenshaw a little south (?) of PCH. It’s vast and gorgeous, and I hear it’s going to be closing…

I took a hike up Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park today. It was kind of smoggy or foggy or just some kind of oggy. I took photos anyway, so here they are in all their hazy glory.

I had plans to go hiking early this morning. Those plans got cancelled at the last minute (though not before my alarm rudely yanked me out of a deep sleep at about 10 minutes to ungodly in the AM). I could have gone anyway, but I sort of had it in my head to go…

I was sort of half-planning to go to this art installation/audio experiment in the park at sunset kind of thing over in Hollywood tonight. When I woke up this morning though it was raining and I wasn’t really all that psyched to drive into Hollywood and try to find parking anyway, so I bagged on…