work today

[handmade34]

Venice Beach



playing inside



Hollywood Hills



Santa Monica yard

[Mira]

1. Even before I got to the last one I realized

that these were achingly sensitive.
My sister lives in Santa Monica, and I know the area quite well from many visits over the years. I just now found these photos of yours, and they are a real slice of LA life.
Thanks.

[Celebration]

2. did your office have that view?

Thanks for taking time off to take these photos and share them with us. I've spent very little time in this area, and love to see this "slice of life."

[handmade34]

3. my 'office' is my car, or the city streets, or the open air

around me, depending on the need... I map, and gather demographic and numbers information for statisticians working on gov't studies... It is a fine job but a heartbreaking job (not only do I see the pain and misery out here in the U.S. but all I really want is to farm and be with my family ...and the pay isn't great) but I do get opportunities to see many things and sometimes photograph those things... I will be working just a few miles from the Sequoia National Forest at the end of the month. *I have yet to figure out how to truly represent the majesty of a redwood tree in a photograph*

Photography for me isn't so much the technicalities of working the camera, especially since I still don't really know how as of yet, but a way for me to capture the things I experience and want to share. (I hope someday to do that better) It is emotion and the human component even when people aren't in the picture...

I love this place (DU Photography group) because I get to see in mostly real time the stories of everyone here... many are different from mine and I love everyone of them

[Celebration]

5. thanks for the explanation

You have a good job for a photographer but I imagine you get airport fatigue. You do an amazing job of selecting subject matter.

I love photography because it changes the way I perceive the world. There is a kind of interaction between the photographer and the subject. I just like the way I feel when I am figuring out how to best capture a scene.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. My Costa Rica kids lived in Santa Monica

and I think will be living in Venice when they come back to the states in July. We have a lot of fun when we visit down there. Venice Beach is the perfect place for people pictures. :)