Griffith Park & Silver Lake Blog.
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer, Silver Lake on Mar 11th, 2008
Downtown, with a puddle to mark where Silver Lake should be.
Interrupted, or DEAD? As of tonight, the north side of Silver Lake, the Ivanhoe Reservoir, is also gone. The remains as seen from my window.
*Updated. I had to get permission from Medical News Today to quote this:
Levels of bromate, a carcinogen, have become so high [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer, People who don't know any better, Silver Lake on Mar 7th, 2008
The other night I was running around Silver Lake and it looked lower, but nowhere near the bottom. The Times said the lake is 45 feet deep.
Then last night I saw the bottom! I was shocked! No way the lake is that deep – it looks around 12 feet deep. (Probably the LADWP made up [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer on Jan 29th, 2008
Well, you know we ARE, because we don’t like to drive all that much. But this could be a mountain town! Almost same perspective as the one below, but a sunnier day. It’s Brand Blvd, in Atwater, and I looked it up on the map and I’m almost certain the mountain is Mt. Olympus!
I mean [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer, Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2008
The oddly moderated Griffith Park Recovery, which has only anonymous posts, in a boring press release style, says some (most?) roads into GP will be closed for rain. Past rain, that is; no rain yet today. Includes the Bird Sanctuary, and we know how popular that is.
For no determinate time. So don’t count on them. [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer on Jan 7th, 2008
Winter began in Silver Lake on December 10, the first day I saw snow on this mountain. Mt Baldy? Someplace where people ski. I can only see this mountain a couple of months a year, because of smog in Glendale and the inland. (Smog in Glendale? Really?)
I keep wanting to learn how to snowshoe. I’d [...]
Posted in Everyone's a Photographer on Dec 5th, 2007
How green was my Griffith valley? After they sprayed it with gunk, very. I didn’t even notice the helicopter in the photo until I downloaded it!
Here I give a shoutout to my adorable little camera I got in August, the Panasonic DMC-TZ1. I never did find the blue one, which I wanted so badly. In [...]
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