Everyone's a Photographer
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Want to take good pictures?
If you like the photos you see on this blog, most were by me, with my little Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ1K 5MP Compact Digital Camera with 10x Optical Image Stabilized Zoom (Black) that I fell in love with! Even though it’s not the blue color I wanted! What’s not to like about the long lens, shooting styles, nice sharp focus… I still love it. Not that I wouldn’t also love an SLR digital Nikon for Christmas, but, you know? Much to be grateful for. I went to Fry’s a month or so ago to look at new cameras, and the guy there said I still had one of the best, 2…
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Rainbow over Atwater! And other celestial happenings.
The rain, one day’s worth on Monday, made LA a little more beautiful. Within a few minutes I took both pictures. The first is fog shrouding the top of Griffith Park, making it look like some exotic European country. You can’t even see the ugly ugly hillsides, the same soylent green that they’ve been for over a year and a half now. (The idea was to stop non-native weeds from growing – they sprayed gunk on with helicopters. Okay, good intention, but it only works if we get rid of all the bad non-native plants already in the park. Any progress report on that, people? In our meetings, I was…
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Great horned owls invade Los Feliz for Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving in Los Feliz I always look forward to major holidays in Los Angeles because it gets quiet! Even the freeways. All the roads. The quietest time of any week is Sunday evening, but holidays are blanketed as if we had the snow we never get. Yesterday, Thanksgiving, was that quiet. So quiet, that some of the wildlife got overexcited. Did those people LEAVE finally? It was only 6 PM, just an hour after sunset, when I heard two Great Horned Owls singing a duet outside my window! This is NOT a great horned owl! It’s a Snowy Owl from Zurich, from Tambako the Jaguar. He’s at Flickr, and this…
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Squirrel conquers Silver Lake AND the DWP.
Yes, that is a squirrel on the electric tower. He’s King of the World! Or at least, of Silver Lake. I rarely see squirrels in Los Angeles. I’m not saying they’re an endangered species, but they’re nowhere near as common as skunks, or even coyotes around here. Back east they’re everywhere. (But I miss chipmunks much more!/whine.)
