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From the Archive -- BSA

My brother on his bike in TX. This was before he lovingly restored it. Also before a woman in a Buick drove into me while I was riding it.

Finally, pix not taken with a phone.

I finally got around to "digitizing"* some old film. One is from my Zeiss shot early last year some time, with pix from the roadtrip I took to pick up Charlie when he moved out and a few shots around Venice, CA while I waited for a singer I was photographing to get her makeup done. Then there were a couple rolls from my lomo, random shots around town. You can check them all out on my flickr site if you're so inclined.

From my road trip. I was having an issue with the camera so I unloaded the film and put it back in, this is a double exposure.

Venice, CA.

Chinatown.

Hhmmmm, donuts.

Mysterious tanks.

The Arboretum.

F-104, March Air Museum. 

Abandoned garage, Glendale.

I have six more rolls to process, plus the one in my camera. I'm trying to get away from the phone a bit, just for kicks.

*I don't have a scanner really. I can occasionally use my wife's work scanner but I tend to not get enlargements made, just contact sheets. This has led to a sort of lo-fi, hi-tech solution to digitizing my negs. I put them on a light box and shoot them with my digital camera. People have copied photos this way since the beginning (I've read of daguerreotypes of other daguerreotypes) and it does lend a sort of vintage look to the final result (especially with color, which is tough to balance this way). 

Silverlake

Disneyland

Pix from Disneyland a few weeks ago.

Charlie wrangling toddlers. T had gotten soaked in a fountain and was stripped to the waist almost immediately. 

 

Castle. You have to take this pic.

It's a Small World. Still the creepiest ride in the park, though it's been updated since last I was there. It's also always good for the awesome A/C and short lines. It's pretty much the only ride we went on, unless you count lines in restaurants as rides, which I kind of do.

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Downtown fun...pt 2

I've been to Grand Central Market downtown a couple of times but I don't remember all of the neon being lit. I'm not sure if it's recently been restored or if I just didn't notice, but I spent this trip taking pictures of much of it. It reminded me of the mercado I visited on a trip to Mazatlan several years ago. Unfortunately we had an impatient toddler fresh of a funicular bender so we didn't get to stop and eat, I could have spent the whole day looking at the ceiling. Also, great for people watching.

Some more neon.

Not sure I'd recommend the especial, but at $.79 lb the price can't be beat.

Tried to explain catfish to the boy the other day, not sure what exactly he expected but I don't think this was as exciting as what he had imagined.

On the other side of the market is the Bradbury Bldg. home of Ross Cutlery, a great place to go for all your blade sharpening needs or if you just like looking at knives. Or want to see the Bradbury.

Why do kids always have to go up the stairs?

Check out all the pix from our little trip in my flickr site.

Downtown fun...pt 1

J wanted to look for some fabric to recover a chair so we decided to head downtown to Michael Levine. As soon as the boy heard us mention downtown he got really excited, "can we go see the orange thing?" he asked. He was talking about Angel's Flight, which we had driven past a couple of months ago and just reopened after an accident a few years back. I can't believe he remembered it from a quick pass on the street and a stop shortly afterward (before it reopened). But he did so we thought we'd check it out and take a little walk around downtown. Here's some pix.

Lost amongst the fabrics.

Spooky. Metropolitan Water District.

Angels Flight. Puts the FUN in FUNicular.

 

Looking down the hill.

This location featured prominently in last years story of boy meets girl.

Next up: Grand Central Market and a second location from the movie mentioned above.