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Urban Light

January 16, 2016 By JoelSax

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

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

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

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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Sunset over the Vista Outlook

January 2, 2016 By JoelSax

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

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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Tarantula

December 31, 2015 By JoelSax

11 August 2015 When I first posted this to flickr, I wrote: It is tarantula migration season. The tarantulas aren’t really migrating: they are males going from hole to hole looking for a mate. I saw one who was carrying some flowers, a bottle of wine and a box of candy….

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BMX

December 30, 2015 By JoelSax

8 August 2015 I had not known what these strange “termite mounds” were until I led a group through the Talbert Regional Park.

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Balloons

December 25, 2015 By JoelSax

2 August 2015 After walking around downtown Costa Mesa, we went for a walk in South Coast Square. This bunch of balloons caught my eye. Merry Christmas!

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Four Corners Timelapse 2

December 23, 2015 By JoelSax

11 August 2015 I got closer for this one, choosing to focus more closely on the mountain bikers coming in and out of the area. The brush leading to this overlook was thick, but miraculously I did not tear my pants. Four Corners is a central location in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park.

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