Junk comes in all flavors, shapes and sizes. Nothing makes for a more colorful, eclectic, and socially relevant photographic subject. The desert seems particularly prone to these accumulations, but there are entire industries and cultures built around the re-use of manufactured materials. The automotive industries supply more than their share, of course, but a case […]
Tag Archives: California
October
11
11 Missions
posted by Glinda Raye
With little access to imported building materials and skilled labor, the Padres and Native Americans invented an entirely new style of architecture and interior decoration. The Mission Style is still with us in its various reincarnations.
October
04
11 Ghosts
posted by Glinda Raye
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men Gang aft a-gley…” When Robert Burns wrote these lines, he might have been describing the settlements and structures in these photos. No one starts any enterprise planning for failure, and when life overcomes them and washes away their dreams, it must come as a painful shock. And yet there are thousands […]
October
04
11 Sunsets
posted by Glinda Raye
One cliché of the photography trade nowadays is that no one will buy a sunset, so why bother taking them? It proves you can get jaded about anything if you try hard enough, because nearly every night, the California beaches fill up with human beings snapping away at the heavens. Our very first sale of […]
October
03
11 Carnage
posted by Glinda Raye
We probably have a thousand shots like these, taken long after everyone seems to have forgotten the point of the fighting. In a few cases, the course of history was changed, but in many of the worst, like the Somme and Ypres, absolutely nothing was accomplished. Many of these bloodstained corners of the planet […]
October
01
11 Music
posted by Glinda Raye
Street musicians, professionals, and contestants strut their musical stuff on two continents.
October
01
11 Beach Life
posted by Glinda Raye
If you live in a place long enough, you’re bound to take a decent photograph or two. Twenty-two years on the Belmont Shore Peninsula in Long Beach, California, produced thousands of shots to choose from. This is a random assortment from all seasons and times of day.
October
01
11 Death Valley
posted by Glinda Raye
Our first encounter with an American desert came in driving Interstate 15 north from Los Angeles to Las Vegas through the High Mojave. Where we expected to find Lawrence of Arabia waving from atop a sand dune, we instead crossed a moonscape of barren rocks and tumbleweed half-hidden under a mountain of ghost housing, […]
September
30
11 Venice Beach
posted by Glinda Raye
A summer’s day on the Strand in Venice Beach, California, where there’s a fine line between street performance and pure exhibitionism.
