Los Angeles Mi Amor

Hi Guys.

Hope you're enjoying 2015 so far.

I've got a bit of a favour to ask of you. Do any of you know of anyone on deviantArt, or elsewhere, who is a photographer of the Los Angeles area? Just, like, a resident of the area who just takes consistent, intimate, urban, lovely photographs of the day to day life of Los Angeles and / or the surrounding cities and areas.

For a bit of context, I live in a damned dreary part of the world. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful area with mountains, valleys, beaches, forests and castle ruins etc... It's just the weather here on the Clwydian Range is dire. Rainy and windswept and not conductive to upbeat creativity.

Now Los Angeles, particularly, while never having actually visited the place (much to my chagrin) has always been a place that inspired me, creatively. You can see it in my work. That filtered golden light caused by the climate and the pollution. The urban desert by the sea. The juxtaposition of inspiration, aspiration, glamour and urban squaller. I love it.

It something that started as a young kid seeing it on film, highly filtered with shimmering head and hazy skies. And one very particular slide in one of those old slide projectors that you used to hold to your eyes and then up to the light. They were normally red with a spinning paper disk of films and you pressed the lever on the side to move to the next one. Do you remember them? My cousin had one as a kid and I was always fascinated by this one slide of Hollywood looking from the street up to the sign. I wanted to be there. I wished I was there.

In another life I may have moved there. But now, I have ties. My beautiful wife and our baby son due to be born in May. Our families. Maybe one day I will visit, camera in hand. Two weeks busman's holiday. But for the time being I'd love to indulge in other peoples views and experiences of the city and area. If any of you could help out I'd be very very grateful.

All the best

Carl


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