Bluejake

I've always said that LA is impossible to photograph, but that's not really true. The city has a lot going for it visually-- bright light in all seasons, colorful street scenes, varied topography, good looking architecture, etc. The main challenge (beyond finding subjects without endless driving), is figuring out how to deal with the usual cloudless blue sky. My research into the work of other LA-based photographers indicates the following approach: try to shoot on cloudy days, and when you can't, get yourself close enough to the subject that the sky doesn't wash everything out. Or shoot in black-and-white (it looks great with the art-deco lines of LA architecture), or at night, or from the air (the most popular subject here is spaghetti-like freeway interchanges, usually photographed from above.)