Architectural Studies
Landmark Architecture - The Long Beach Monster - new 5 November 2006
Architectural Note - Different Times - new 5 November 2006
1927 Rococo Madness - The Avalon Hollywood, 1735 North Vine, Hollywood - a Rococo Palace - new 8 October 2006
Verticals - the Equitable Building - 1929, by Alexander Curlett, on the northeast corner of Hollywood and Vine - new 8 October 2006
Hollywood Architecture - The North Harper Avenue Historic District - new 1 October 2006
- Neighborhood Ghosts - Marlene Dietrich
- Norma Talmadge Glamour
- In Old Monterey
- Getting Real
- Ironwork
- Hidden Hideout
- Angels in the Neighborhood
Color: Pink Trashy Walls - new 20 August 2006
Architectural Details - new 30 July 2006
An Office: Just what it should look like... - new 23 July 2006
Architecture: Hollywood in the Twenties (four nested pages) - new 16 July 2006
Architecture: Good Old Buildings (four pages, four styles) - new 2 July 2006
- Beaux Arts meets Art Deco
- Zig-Zag Moderne Repurposed
- Mission Revival, Revived
- Renaissance Revival in the Roaring Twenties
Architecture: Architectural Detail and Hollywood History - new 11 June 2006
Architecture: One Of The Finest Examples Of Art Deco Architecture In The United States (The Wiltern) - new 7 May 2006
Architecture: At the Walt Disney Concert Hall - new 23 April 2006
Zigzag Time - new 2 April 2006
Old Art Deco Hollywood - new 2 April 2006
Color: The Pacific Design Center - new 26 March 2006
The Getty Center: Architectural and Cultural Notes with Seven Pages of Photos
Architectural Ruins: Ennis House - Frank Lloyd Wright - Los Angeles, 1924
The Wright Stuff: The Frank Lloyd Wright Stoner House in Hollywood (1923)
Union Station, Los Angeles
Landmark Architecture: On Location at the Bradbury Building
Past Glory: Broadway Movie Palaces, Los Angeles
Randy's Donuts: The Quintessential LA Landmark
Hollywood Landmarks: Worldly and Otherworldly
The Good Ship Coca-Cola
Ephemera: Catching the Past in Los Angeles Before it Disappears - the Tail O' the Pup
Unchanging Los Angeles: Service on Sawtelle Boulevard
Close-Up: Hollywood Architectural Detail
Old Hollywood: Here, water cascades from the mouths of lions into multiple pools and waterways….
Hollywood Doors: The Private and the Public
Modern Architecture: Spatial Ambiguity
Whimsical Architecture: Where are the Hobbits?
French Hollywood
Architectural Notes - a bit of old Hollywood
Neighborhood Architecture (Hollywood)
Architectural Color: West Side Whimsy
Architecture of Note
Documenting Hollywood
A Feel for the Place - Graphic Design and More - new 29 October 2006
Looking Rich - In the Land of Not Quite What It Seemsnew 29 October 2006
Façades of All Sorts - new 22 October 2006
Hollywood - The Dead - new 22 October 2006
Hollywood Halloween (Costumes and Wigs) - new 15 October 2006
Ghosts under Glass - new 15 October 2006
Graphics as Culture - new 15 October 2006
Full-On Color - Walls at the Howard Fine Acting Studio at the Hollywood Playhouse Complex - new 8 October 2006
Paris Cat Fight - See Where the Rich and Famous Punch Each Other Out - new 8 October 2006
Hollywood Reflections - Shooting Odd Things through Glass - new 24 September 2006
Faded Stars - Old Hollywood - new 10 September 2006
High on Sunset - Some very strange images - new 10 September 2006
Hollywood Walls - Looking closely at things - new 10 September 2006
Paparazzi Time (on actually being attacked by paparazzi on Hollywood Boulevard) - new 3 September 2006
Characters: Hollywood This Week - new 30 July 2006
Glamour Restored: The George Stanley Fountain at the Hollywood Bowl - new 23 July 2006
Hollywood Today: Things Have Changed - new 16 July 2006
Movie Madness: "Filmstrip USA" by Natalie Krol - new 9 July 2006
Landmarks: The Forgotten Major Studio - new 2 July 2006
Quick Shots - new 25 June 2006
Icons - new 18 June 2006
The Hollywood Tourist - new 18 June 2006
The Movies: Hollywood Murals Old and New - new 18 June 2006
Oddities: Fooling the Eye in Hollywood - new 11 June 2006
Landmarks: Things Not To Do In Los Angeles - new 11 June 2006
Odd Shot: The Pause That Refreshes - new 11 June 2006
Classic Hollywood (the famous theaters) - new 28 May 2006
Fame: Kermit the Frog at Charlie Chaplin's Place - new 28 May 2006
Places: Hollywood Lived Here, Hollywood Worked Here - new 28 May 2006
A Birthday: An Odd Hollywood Star - new 28 May 2006
The Old Days: Pink, Blue, Green, Red - new 21 May 2006
On the Scene: Another Day in Hollywood (photo essay) - new 14 May 2006
The Eye: Looking Down on Ghosts (photo essay) - new 14 May 2006
Landmarks: Walk Like an Egyptian, or Something (The Egyptian Theater) - new 7 May 2006
Long Ago: Notes on Hollywood History - new 7 May 2006
Small Details: The George Harrison Tree at Griffith Park Observatory - new 7 May 2006
Signage: Displays in Hollywood - new 30 April 2006
Abstracts: Just Patterns from Hollywood Boulevard - new 30 April 2006
Red: Doors and Posters - new 30 April 2006
Far Out: Mythological Beasts in Hollywood - new 16 April 2006
Fame: The Eye on Sunset Boulevard - new 16 April 2006
Fan Stuff: The Movie Industry in One Block - Melrose at Bronson - new 10 April 2006
Morbid Hollywood (Hollywood Forever Memorial Park) - new 10 April 2006
History: The Labor Movement in Images - new 10 April 2006
Laurel Canyon: Rock's Answer to Jazz Age Paris, in the Rain - new 10 April 2006
Hollywood Storefronts - new 2 April 2006
Places Time Forgot - new 2 April 2006
Old Hollywood: Raymond Chandler Square - new 26 March 2006
Frank's Place: The Capitol Records Building - new 26 March 2006
Oscar Day: The Obscure Inside Scoop - new 12 March 2006
A Tour: Adventures in Hollywoodland - new 5 March 2006
The Industry: Very Local Organizations - new 5 March 2006
Odd Walls - new 5 March 2006
Values: Hollywood has always been out of touch with Middle America... - new 5 March 2006
Sherlock - new 5 March 2006
A Taste of Hollywood at Oscar Time (five nested pages) - new 26 February 2006
Gritty Hollywood
Hollywood Murals
A Resting Place: De Longpre Park
Working Hollywood: Little Theaters with Real People
Dead Hollywood: The Stars at Rest
On the Boulevard - Raymond Chandler Territory
Götterdämmerung, Hollywood Style
Sightseeing: Hollywood for Texans
On the Move: Driving Down Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood Ghosts
SCI-FI Corner: Watching the Skies (Hollywood and Toronto)
Danger: Being Careful Out Here
The Hollywood Eye
Beyond Hollywood
Cold War Scorpion - The Russian Attack Submarine in Los Angeles Waters - new 5 November 2006
Thai Town - Given Current Events, It Was Time to Visit Ours - new 24 September 2006
Little Tokyo - new 3 September 2006
Neighborhood Tour: The Fairfax District (four nested pages) - new 13 August 2006
Fame: In case you were wondering… - new 13 August 2006
Long Ago: History in the Window - new 13 August 2006
Oddities: Things That Aren't What They Seem, or Are - new 28 May 2006
Ominous Signs (Melrose Avenue) - new 14 May 2006
A Collection of Walls (Melrose Avenue) - new 14 May 2006
America and China: Los Angeles' Chinatown (seven nested pages of photographs) - new 23 April 2006
Stonework - new 19 March 2006
March Madness: The Most Picturesque Basketball Court In The World - new 19 March 2006
At Angels Gate: The Korean Bell of Friendship and Bell Pavilion, Angels Gate Park, San Pedro - new 12 March 2006
Lighthouses - new 12 March 2006
Italianate: Statuary at Malaga Cove Plaza - new 12 March 2006
Food for Thought - new 26 February 2006
A Tour of the Sunset Strip (seven nested pages)
Sunset Strip Noir (black and whites)
Just Below Sunset (Hollywood Without the Bling): Faces, Places, Geometric Pleasantries, Amazing Blooms
The moose is loose...
Wildfire: Watching the Hollywood Hills Burn
Hollywood Hills: Lifestyles of the Visually Confused
In those high rolling hills...
Guitar Row on Sunset Boulevard
Peculiarly Los Angeles: Melrose Avenue
Renoir on Wilshire Boulevard
The La Brea Tar Pits
On Location Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills
On Location: The Santa Monica Pier
Quiet Neighborhood: The Opposite of California Glitz
Landmarks: What Passes for History in Los Angeles
Sunday morning in the other Los Angeles - Sunset Boulevard in Echo Park
The Other Film Capital of Southern California - The Old MGM Studios in Culver City
Street Scenes: In and Around Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
Malibu: Not Just Surfers
Malibu Calling: The Call to the Wall
Topanga Canyon - Its Own Place
Venice Beach
Intense Eccentricity - The Oddest Building in Venice Beach - new 24 September 2006
Trompe-l'œil - Additional Venice Beach Murals, the Surreal Ones - new 24 September 2006
Beach Studies - Every Picture Tells a Story - new 24 September 2006
The Edge of the Pacific
The Surreal Beach: Walls and Folk Art, Venice Beach, California
On Location: Touch of Evil
Local Shots: Venice and its Canals - 21 April 2005
Color Studies: Long Late Light, and a Pink Church Reconceptualized
Venice Beach Details
At the Edge: Surf and Sand and More
Other Beaches
Pacific Studies - new 22 October 2006
Beach Triptych: The Forgotten Original - new 3 September 2006
Waves of Light (Surfrider Beach, Malibu) - new 6 August 2006
Surf City, USA - new 25 June 2006
Not Hollywood: Encinitas on a Quiet Afternoon - new 11 June 2006
Blue: Nautical Shots of a Sort - new 30 April 2006
The Coast - new 19 March 2006
Surf: Christmas Day in Encinitas
Christmas at the Beach: So Very Los Angeles
The Pacific: On the Shore Just Before Christmas
Signs Seen at the Beach
Hermosa and Manhattan Beach
Beach Sports: Surfing and Volleyball
Vistas: Sea, Sky and Long Hills
Early Sunday at the Beach
Events
Eye Candy: The Thirty-Second Annual Festival of the Kite - new 6 August 2006
Bastille Day, Los Angeles (2006) - new 23 July 2006
May Day in Los Angeles, 2006 (Immigrant Rights Demonstrations)
Times Change: The Old Queen Mary Meets the New Queen Mary - new 26 February 2006
Backstage: Building the Floats for the Tournament of Roses Parade
A Mariachi Band
LA and Paris: A Late Bastille Day (2005)
West Hollywood Parade: Where was Paris Hilton? (Gay Pride Parade)
Memorial Day: A Traditional Album
Unexpected LA: Ice Hockey at the Beach
Beginnings: Baseball Season Starts
Oscar Morning in Hollywood (2005)
Seasonal
Halloween Images - new 29 October 2006
Easter (The Cross Above Hollywood Bowl) - new 16 April 2006
Christmas Streets
Christmas Money Shots: Christmas in the Land of the Obscenely Wealthy, Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills
Christmas Displays: In the Windows of the Major Stores on Wilshire Boulevard
Christmas Whimsy: All Those Details of the Season
The Season: Christmas on the Way
Christmas Photography Beverly Hills: Optical Oddities
December 12, 2004 - Baccarat in Hollywood (actually Beverly Hills) - and a bit of Paris and Manhattan
Christmas Photography Hollywood Boulevard
Christmas Photography Beverly Hills: Optical Oddities
Halloween 2005 - Amateur Halloween, Hollywood Halloween, Flora and Fauna
Halloween 2004
Light and Shadow
Odd Walls - new 5 November 2006
Color Studies - new 29 October 2006
Story Walls - new 15 October 2006
Low-End Noir - Moody Stuff - new 8 October 2006
Windows and Signs - Just Noticing Things - new 8 October 2006
Sunset Strip Images - new 1 October 2006
Walls - Intense Brickwork - new 24 September 2006
One Shot - Perspective - The Vanishing Point - new 10 September 2006
Everyday Surrealism - new 3 September 2006
Words and Symbols - new 3 September 2006
Faces - new 20 August 2006
A Bicycle - new 20 August 2006
One Shot - new 20 August 2006
Kids at Play - new 13 August 2006
One Shot - new 13 August 2006
One Shot: The Dangers of Modern Life - new 6 August 2006
Colors: On the Boulevard and at the Beach - new 30 July 2006
One Shot: A Simple Wall - new 9 July 2006
Abstracts: The Heat - new 2 July 2006
Clouds: Storms Over Hollywood - new 2 July 2006
Colors: Studies in Blue... - new 25 June 2006
Trains: Wheels Are Turning - new 18 June 2006
Trains: Mediations on the Past, in Color - - new 11 June 2006
Long Light - new 11 June 2006
Treacherous Unbrightness - new 11 June 2006
Lens Work: New Eye on Hollywood - new 11 June 2006
Art
Impressionism - Hollywood Nymphéas - new 21 May 2006
Cultural Dislocations - new 14 May 2006
Far East - new 10 April 2006
Georgia O'Keeffe - new 26 March 2006
Sculpture: Gentle Joking with the Rich - Otterness in Beverly Hills
Robert Williams: Through Prehensile Eyes
Public Art: Claus Oldenburg, Frank Gehry and Jonathan Borofsky
Sculpture Garden: Strange Encounters at UCLA
Cowboy Art: John Wayne and Larry Flint, and Harry Shapiro from Chicago, a good friend of Jackson Pollock, channeling Frederic Remington
Statement: A Famous Anti-War Monument in Santa Monica
Aviation
Surreal Vehicle: The Goodyear Blimp
Aerial Photography: Long Beach and Los Angeles Harbor from a Blimp
A Ride on a B-17G over Los Angeles
The Western Museum of Flight
Back to the Start
Tigers that fly, or used to, and so much more?
Automobiles
Blast from the Past- A 1962 Corvair Monza - new 5 November 2006
Amazing Machines - Things to Do On a Sunday Afternoon in Hollywood, like dropping by the Second Annual Route 66 Highway of Dreams Charity Car Show - new 1 October 2006 Car Crazy - We love our cars out here - new 10 September 2006
- 1949 Super SportA California Bird - new 20 August 2006
- Super Topless
- Flaming Fenders
- Oddities
A Major Minor - new 13 August 2006
Automotive: Henry Made a Lady Out of Lizzie - new 6 August 2006
Car Talk: Conspicuous Consumption - new 9 July 2006
Grit: Not a Ferrari - new 28 May 2006
The Green Gumball - new 21 May 2006
Wretched Excess: Another Ferrari in Malibu - new 21 May 2006
Rich and Famous: The Eighth Annual Rodeo Drive Annual Concours
Hollywood Rides: The George Barris Collection
Oddities: The Double Mini and Captain Kirk
California Cars
Odd Cars: Los Angeles Style
Hot Rods on Sunset Boulevard
New York City
Manhattan: Façades and Details
Landmarks: Manhattan Reinterpreted
Symbols: New York's Finest
Acting Up: Manhattan Theater District
New York: A Good Day in Manhattan
Botanicals
Botanicals - new 5 November 2006
Halloween Blooms (at the graves of dead celebrities) - new 29 October 2006
Dark Flowers (not exactly Baudelaire, but something of the sort) - new 29 October 2006
Hibiscus - new 22 October 2006
Mixed Botanical Detail - new 22 October 2006
The Official Bloom - new 15 October 2006
The California Sun - new 15 October 2006
True Color Values - new 15 October 2006
In Close - new 8 October 2006
Extreme Roses - new 1 October 2006
Real and Better Than Real - new 24 September 2006
Brightness - new 10 September 2006
Full-On Colors - new 3 September 2006
Hibiscus - new 20 August 2006
Adventures in Backlighting - new 20 August 2006
Botanicals: Matched Sets - new 13 August 2006
Serenity - new 13 August 2006
Botanicals: In the Shadows - new 6 August 2006
Botanicals: Morning Mist - new 30 July 2006
Palms: So California - new 30 July 2006
Lotus Land - new 30 July 2006
Botanicals: Morning Light - new 23 July 2006
Hot Blooms - new 16 July 2006
Roses - new 16 July 2006
Botanicals: Keeping Cool - new 9 July 2006
Botanicals: Red, White and Blue - new 2 July 2006
Increasing Intensity - new 25 June 2006
The Unexpected (banana) - new 25 June 2006
Magnolia: A Little Bit of the Old South in Hollywood - new 25 June 2006
Jacaranda Time - new 18 June 2006
Botanicals: Close-Up Color - new 18 June 2006
Botanicals: Details, details, details... - new 11 June 2006
Botanicals: Starburst Patterns - new 28 May 2006
Botanicals: Two Contrasting Settings - new 21 May 2006
Les Fleurs du Mal - new 14 May 2006
Harsh Botanicals - new 14 May 2006
Easy on the Eyes - new 14 May 2006
Botanicals: Bursts of Color - new 7 May 2006
Palms - new 30 April 2006
Botanicals: Hot Ice - new 30 April 2006
Floral Context: At the Walt Disney Concert Hall Garden - new 23 April 2006
Botanicals: Working Close-up - new 23 April 2006
Patterns: The Geometry of Palms - new 16 April 2006
Botanicals: Easter Blooms - new 16 April 2006
Botanicals - new 10 April 2006
Botanicals: Gaudy Beverly Hills (Roses) - new 2 April 2006
Unknown Botanicals - new 26 March 2006
Known Botanicals - new 26 March 2006
Botanicals: Detailed Pairings - new 19 March 2006
Botanicals - new 12 March 2006
Botanicals - new 5 March 2006
Botanicals: Flames - new 26 February 2006
A Beach Trio
Groundhog Day Blooms
The Coral Tree
Christmas Blooms
Roses and More
Beverly Hills Blooms
December in Santa Monica
The Gardens of Greystone Mansion
In Bloom, Los Angeles - Late November 2005
November Blooms
Laurel Avenue
Rhyming With Purple
A Rose
Rose Avenue in Venice Beach
Not Barney: The Topiary Dinosaurs of Santa Monica
Hollywood Desert: Cacti and Such
Color Studies: Odd Colors
May Day: Botanical Detail
Beach Blooms: Growing at the Edge
It's Jacaranda Time Again
December Gardens
Odd - The famous (not really) Cactus Man of Mulholland Drive
Botanicals for those in colder climes?
Birds and more...
Beverly Hills Duck - new 22 October 2006
Heavenly Pond - An exercise in nature photography - new 10 September 2006
Odd Birds (pelicans close up) - new 6 August 2006
A Gull (and more) - new 6 August 2006
Shore Birds - new 23 July 2006
One Bee - new 23 July 2006
Beating the Heat (turtles, fish) - new 9 July 2006
Egrets in Context - new 21 May 2006
Other Birds - new 21 May 2006
Nature: The Birds and the Bees - new 30 April 2006
Ripples - new 16 April 2006
Birds - new 19 March 2006
Shore Birds: A Little Hitchcock, A Bit of Aerodynamics
Hummingbirds: Motion Capture
Topanga Canyon Hawk - A Red Tail
Odd Shot: Squirrel in Palm Tree
Miscellaneous Forty more links coming soon...
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