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Cascades Waterfall

In Life, Photos on 16 December 2009 tagged California, Cascades Waterfall, Heritage Falls Park, Monterey Park, people with no comments

Taylor and Greg [finished] a sociology class at Mt. SAC. For extra credit, their professor had them view cultural diversity by driving all over Los Angeles County and taking their photo at eight locations.

They invited me to come along a couple months ago. I couldn’t say no. It gave me a chance to procrastinate with homework and studying for finals.

I kept my Amod 3080 GPS data logger on the whole time. Thanks to KML Path Distance, it calculated that we traveled 116.759 miles.

I’ll edit this post and link to the Flickr set when I choose, process and upload my favorites from this day.

For now, I hope you dig this planned shot of these two characters¹ looking at the Cascades Waterfall. I find it quite humorous.

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Taylor and Greg. ↩

Bill

In Photos on 10 November 2009 tagged Bill Ritter, male, man, people, portrait, smile with no comments

I didn’t ask Bill to pose or smile. I liked his second portrait, but that wasn’t as sharp. Boo me.

Reflections of myself and Bill’s dad (upper left) was deliberate.

Taken inside his dad’s garage, and hopefully soon to be his recording studio.

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James

In Photos on 3 November 2009 tagged B&W, blackandwhite, James Corsini, male, man, people, portrait with no comments

This is my favorite shot of James from Halloween night. He’s dressed as Alex from “A Clockwork Orange.”

Taken outside of Four Seasons Hotel Beverly Wilshire (Beverly Hills, CA)

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Silas and Megan

In Photos on 23 June 2009 tagged couple, kiss, people with no comments

I can’t deny that I’m into people photos, especially portraits. On Flickr alone, I have 908 and 1,571 tagged as portrait and people, respectively.

Last Monday, I was going to hang out with Silas for an impromptu photowalk. His girlfriend, Megan, came along, so I made the decision to hang out at the park.

Cute stuff, right?

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Rick

In $1 Portraits, Photos on 25 March 2009 tagged homeless, Los Angeles, male, man, people, portrait with no comments

I’m taking $1 portraits as long as money permits. (See Thomas Hawk with his $2 portrait project and Justin Korn with his $1 portrait project.)

What’s the premise? I’ll offer $1 to anyone who asks me for money in exchange for their portrait. I’m a shy person, but I’ll do my best to find out a little about the person. You never know if it’ll make someone’s day for at least talking to them a little bit.

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Rick stopped “briefly” talk to me while I was waiting outside Regent China Inn. He told me that someone took his photo a few days ago, even though he didn’t give him permission.

Trying to decipher a myriad of his tangents (over the course of 10 minutes), I learned that he was from Culver City.

A Metro bus driver refused to honor a monthly pass he just purchased. (No idea how long ago that way.)
He had $2,000 while in Glendale. Down the street was a Shakey’s, but he told some guy that he wanted to go to the one closer to home.
Save that card from Surf City because you can get a free smoothie.

Rick was on his way to a facility down the street to see if they were giving out food.

He never did ask me for money, but I offered him a couple bucks anyway because he seemed pretty nice. Other than that, I didn’t really get a chance to get a sentence in. He was a talker.

Before we parted ways, I asked him if I could take his photo. He positioned himself in a better light – and away from the front of Phillipe’s – but the bill of his hat blocked most of it. Oh well.

Sidenote: My cousin, Cheryl, is a psychology major. She suggested that he could have a mild case of schizophrenia.

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