Picture Notes

What’s it like to be in Los Angeles? This pedestrian bridge connects office buildings in West Los Angeles and I was visiting there for the first time with my camera a couple of years ago. This is another one my Omakasi selections. I don’t think this has any value in the commercial market but might have value in the editorial market with the right art director. It’s one of those images that I can’t throw away and forget about because it speaks to me about business and working late. There is a planet rising in the dark blue sky. It’s hard to complain about a city with perfect weather most of the time.

Partisanship?

I made this photograph several years ago when the house and the senate were both controlled by the republicans and at that time it had no further significance and didn’t even think about any political symbolism. But today there is a new wind blowing and I like to think of this air as cleaning out some of the stale smoke and anthrax dust that has been surrounding and choking up the country for the past 7 years. I feel a shift, a minor earthquake, a change in the economic fortunes of the country, an expansion from the narrow minded thinking that has stolen our resources and sent our money to foreign lands and I see a political landslide, a new reality in the political fortunes of many who will be sitting on the wrong side of the aisle during the next election.

I like this kind of change, it’s refreshing and invigorating. I also like to use old fashioned words like invigorating and conundrum, words that you find on packages of cough drops. So carry on America, make the world love you once again by electing a minority or a woman - take your choice but please leave the old white men out of it, leave them wondering what happened.

I don’t know why anyone wouldn’t want to give their loved one a chocolate gnome for Valentine’s Day, or maybe a white chocolate gnome. Of course these are Swiss chocolate because that’s where gnomes come from, don’t they?