In stark contrast to pretty much everything else, Time Lords in the US are clearly smaller than their British equivalent.
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Tag Archives: california
Wind Farms
One thing that I wasn’t really expecting to see in Southern California were a series of wind farms. With their quiet grace and purpose against the desert backdrop they are oddly beautiful.
Bus Bench for Humans Only
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I’m sure really sure what they point of these adverts were or what they were trying to sell, but they were all over Los Angeles. Amused me, anyway!
Los Angeles
The bizarre thing about Los Angeles. No, scrub that. One of the bizarre things about Los Angeles is that it doesn’t really have a distinct centre or downtown area, just a bunch of nearby districts, some more noteworthy than others.
Despite only having a day I think I did pretty well. After a decent brunch I managed to visit Hollywood, including the famous sign ((I did try to see it the previous evening but it clearly hadn’t been illuminated.)), the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, and Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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In the afternoon I went a little out of town and saw the Getty Museum — not something I would have immediately associated with Los Angeles but well worth a visit in hindsight. And then, on the way back to the airport, I stopped briefly in Venice Beach.
The airport, by the way, is called John Wayne Airport. I guess there are plenty of airports named after people but that one, for some reason, amused me. Does that mean that I didn’t completely internalise the Los Angeles vibe?
My Ansel Adams Tribute
In the weakest possible sense of the word, these two images can be considered to be my tribute to Ansel Adams’ work in the Sierra Nevada.
While he had to lug huge cameras around and work with large format film I merely had to carry around my 50D ((Though many would complain about the size and weight of my DSLR!)) and play around in Photoshop Elements.
I find it a little odd that the thing that drew me to both of these pictures were the colours ((The top photograph can be found in colour in my Yosemite post. The other you’ll just have to imagine.)) yet there is still enough texture and shape to make them work in black and white.
Yosemite Animation
It’s at times like these that I feel that I have been short-changed with my 50D. Both the model above and below it have a HD video feature and mine does not. I’m not one to let these little limitations get in my way though…
With apologies for the size, here are a bunch of images I took in Yosemite stitched together into a single animated GIF ((Yes, I’m normally against animated GIFs too, but this was way easier than building a proper movie file.)).
Thanks to Henry for the idea.