Urban Light

January 16, 2016 By JoelSax

Urban Light

13 August 2015

Chris Burden’s arrangement is considered to be the masterpiece of the LACMA collection. You don’t need a ticket to see it: it stands just outside the Rodin sculpture garden.

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Walker and Pillars

January 14, 2016 By JoelSax

Walker and Pillars

13 August 2015

My flickr followers like this black and white atmosphere piece of a man walking to pretty much nowhere in the LACMA complex.

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Rodin

January 12, 2016 By JoelSax

Rodin

13 August 2015

Rodin’s student Emile-Antoine Boudelle gave us this rare glimpse of the creator of The Thinker and the Lovers. I love his wild and stormy beard.

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Detail of The Orator

January 10, 2016 By JoelSax

Detail of The Orator

13 August 2015

LACMA isn’t the Louve, but it does have some stunning paintings such as “The Orator” by Magnus Zeller, a particularly vivid piece illustrating the period before Hitler’s rise to power.

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Squares, Chevrons, and Sky

January 9, 2016 By JoelSax

Squares, Chevrons, and Sky

13 August 2015

I tried to curse this view of the roof at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as a personal favorite, but it did not work.

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Farmer’s Market

January 7, 2016 By JoelSax

Farmer's Market

13 August 2015

This is between the stalls at the Farmer’s Market.

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Saddam Insane Hot Sauce

January 5, 2016 By JoelSax

Saddam Insane Hot Sauce

13 August 2015

There’s a store at the Farmer’s Market that sells only hot sauce. This is an example that I dared not try.

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Nectarines

January 3, 2016 By JoelSax

Nectarines

13 August 2015

A visit to Farmer’s Market is always good for the food. The number of stands run by actual farmers or featuring crops has been severely reduced over the years, however.

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Sunset over the Vista Outlook

January 2, 2016 By JoelSax

Sunset over the Vista Outlook

11 August 2015

I used a star filter to capture this shot and silhouette of the foothills in Whiting Ranch.

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Mount Santiago and Four Corners

January 1, 2016 By JoelSax

Mount Santiago and Four Corners

11 August 2015

An experiment using two graduated filters, one on the top, one on the bottom. The vignetting is due to the stacking of the filters.

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