In the center of Pasadena is a short man-made river, all hard angles and fake animals. In this river are a few fountains. This is what water looks like when frozen at one one-thousand-six-hundreds of a second (1/1600).

Last year I wandered about Chicano Park in San Diego. It is a beautiful park, and I took some photographs. Then I went home and found out it’s history. I wrote the story up here. There was only one problem, I had too many photographs. They did not fit with the article, so they became [...]

Abstract Los Angeles is an ongoing collection of photographs as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. Today’s installment is all about fences, because fences always remind me of The Far Side cartoon where the surburban father explains to his fence surrounded son that the bird song is territorial marking common to lower animals. Fences always [...]

Abstract Los Angeles is an ongoing collection of photographs as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. A few are bizarre, some are beautiful, and once or twice, they might even have a little meaning. But then again, what they mean is a whole different question. Today’s installment is about signs, some professional, some with spray [...]

Abstract Los Angeles is an on-going collection of photographs taken as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. Today’s installment is all about created faces; in a frame, on a billboard, with tile or maybe even eating some brains. On Lake, in Pasadena, a women opens her mouth in invitation. The hollow invitation of advertising, with [...]

Abstract Los Angeles is an on-going collection of photographs taken as I wander about this sprawling metropolis. Today’s installment is all about created faces; sometimes with spray paint, sometimes with fur, or plaster, or maybe even metal. At the intersection of two small streets, somewhere on the south side of West Hollywood, or maybe the [...]

At intermittent times, when visiting and wandering about the city of San Francisco, little pieces of the city show themselves to my lens. Today is all about the pieces that don’t fit into a neat category. A bicycle with bumper sticker ‘Tax the Rich’ attached to a parking meter, south of Market, San Francisco. ‘Jews [...]

At intermittent times, when visiting and wandering about the city of San Francisco, little pieces of the city show themselves to my lens. Today is all about the pieces that don’t fit into a neat category. Abandonded military steel door set in concrete for a past war that never arrived. Near Fort Mason on the [...]

At intermittent times, when visiting and wandering about the city of San Francisco, little pieces of the city show themselves to my lens. For some reason San Francisco is a haven for sidewalk signs, they abound in the city, sometimes with a stencil and spray paint, sometimes with chalk. It’s always time for pie! Chalked [...]

At intermittent times, when visiting and wandering about the city of San Francisco, little pieces of the city show themselves to my lens. For some reason San Francisco is a haven for sidewalk signs, they abound in the city, sometimes with a stencil and spray paint, sometimes with chalk. “I do that with him for [...]

At intermittent times, when visiting and wandering about the city of San Francisco, little pieces of the city present themselves to my lens. Today’s installment is about signs left about the city, for official reasons. Neon sign -Held Over- sitting behind bars, at a shop on Upper Haight Street, San Francisco. One Way, with alleyway [...]

At intermittent times, when visiting and wandering about the city of San Francisco, little pieces of the city show themselves to my camera lens. Today’s installment is about pieces placed on walls, from murals, to stickers to spray paint, randomly placed around the city. On a wall, just off Lower Haight, a mural with limbs [...]