As the 2019 winter holidays wound down and 2020 was just getting started, after New Years and before I was expected back at work, I snuck down to LA for a few days to enjoy the weather, catch up with some friends, eat some food and have a few drinks. I made some photos too.
I still have to get a couple rolls of film developed from those few days, but I since the volume of digital photos I made was pretty low, I wanted to get through them (so I could get back to procrastinating all the Berlin pix I still haven’t finished poring through).
The film I shot there was black and white, but I kinda like the color images I captured with the Fuji x100f while roaming LA. Black and white for street photography is generally a natural fit no matter where it’s happening, but something about LA really brings out my desire to shoot color, especially in patterns, and in spaces without people in them. I’ve always been drawn to making photos of urban locales devoid of human subjects, and there’s a vastness to LA that doesn’t exist in too many other places. Capturing pieces of that that vastness without the intrusion of the population always seems to carry extra weight for me.
At any rate, there are a few people in these pix, but mostly not. As soon as I get that film developed, and scan the negatives, I’ll add them to this set, and maybe to some of the galleries on the site. In the meantime, enjoy. Or don’t…
