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Where it was taken: Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
When: May 8, 2017
Commenter nym: BillinGlendaleCA
Other notes or info about the picture: Downtown Los Angeles at night with the Wilshire Grand lights(the building with the green).Good Morning All,
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First up today, from BillinGlendaleCA:
Where it was taken: Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
When: May 8, 2017
Other notes or info about the picture: Los Angeles is bidding for the 2024(or 2028) Olympics and the IOC was in town to look around so buildings were lit up in the colors for the proposed Olympics. The colors are supposed to represent a Southern California sunset. Here’s Griffith Observatory all lit up.
Where it was taken: Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
When: May 8, 2017
Other notes or info about the picture: Downtown Los Angeles at night with the Wilshire Grand lights(the building with the green).
Where it was taken: Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles, CA
When: May 8, 2017
Other notes or info about the picture: Hollywood Sign after dark with a nice light trace of the traffic leaving the observatory.
Where it was taken: Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA
When: May 13, 2017
Other notes or info about the picture: Los Angeles City Hall from Grand Park.
Where it was taken: Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
When: May 13, 2017
Other notes or info about the picture: The LA Financial District from the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power whose building you can see to the right. The Dorothy Chandler Pavilion is on the left.
Where it was taken: Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
When: May 13, 2017
Other notes or info about the picture: Light trace of “The Slot”(the Hollywood Freeway through Downtown Los Angeles).
Once again, like so many readers, I stand amazed at Bill’s work.
And to wrap things up for today, evap:
two more pictures from Ireland
Where it was taken: Dingle Peninsula IrelandWhen: May 27, 2017Other notes or info about the picture: Taken on a drive around the Dingle Peninsula. The weather was great — warm and sunny — and the views just stunning. One of the most beautiful places that I have ever visited.
Where it was taken: Connor Pass, IrelandWhen: May 28, 2017Other notes or info: Taken near the start of our drive from Dingle back to Dublin. The Connor Pass is one of the the highest paved mountain passes in Ireland. This is the view from the pass.
Where it was taken: Connor Pass, IrelandWhen: May 28, 2017Other notes or info: This is a picture of our (small) car on the road in the pass. This is a two-way road!!!! Glad that I was not doing the driving. At least no busses are allowed in the pass.
raven
Nice!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Thanks.
SiubhanDuinne
Bill and evap, just beautiful photos of stunning scenery! Thanks for sharing your talents and travels with the rest of us.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: I’ve got some vintage Yosemite* and Seoul up on tap.
*There be bears; OK, just on bear.
craigie
I’ve never heard it called “The Slot” before, and I grew up in LA. Nice work just the same!
Yoda Dog
Incredible, Bill. Just beautiful.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@craigie: You must have not spent much time listening to Bill Keene on KNX for traffic. It’s the portion of the freeway from the 4-level interchange(110 and 101) to about Los Angeles Street. It’s below ground level since it cuts though what was once Fort Moore Hill.
@Yoda Dog: Thanks.
craigie
I don’t listen to traffic, I live the traffic :-)
MomSense
The photos are so different and yet beautiful.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo fka Edmund Dantes
I’m loving that narrow Irish road.
And on another note for Raven, if you’re around, you know that the August eclipse is passing directly over Anna IL? I may go visit middle daughter to see it.
JPL
The pictures are beautiful.
Starfish
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Wow, are you going to give some balloon juice photography lessons?
Quinerly
?❤
Alain the site fixer
Not sure how I messed up the text; it looked ok last night. I’m sure I’ll blame my cat and not my then-tired, sleepy self. Sorry folks!
satby
Awesome pictures! Bill, you should go pro and sell these!
And I love Ireland, it seems that almost every view is beautiful. Even in gray drizzly days, the landscape was lush and green. I’m intimidated by driving there though, friends got into a catastrophic accident on one of those narrow roads, and they were Irish nationals, not tourists. But the bus and rail system gets you almost everywhere and you can enjoy the views instead of worrying about driving on the other side on narrow lanes.
Alain the site fixer
This is a test comment that should get thrown into moderation.
Alain the site fixer
@Alain the site fixer: Perhaps this will be blocked.
opiejeanne
@satby: We drove those narrow roads in 2010 and we both did a bit of screaming. A bus driver on the Dingle Peninsula Slea Head Drive had pity on us and backed up a bit so that we could get past him. We skipped Conor Pass.
We had a GPS that avoided the freeways, which are very nice, and took us through farmers’ fields whenever it could, and when we were trying to leave Clonakilty it also took us on a tour of places known to Michael Collins: his birthplace and the last pub he visited before being killed, and the shrine on the highway where he was killed.
Ireland is beautiful, possibly the most beautiful place I’ve ever been and I’d love to go back. We are discussing it.
JustRuss
Wow, two of my favorite places: Griffith Park Observatory and the Dingle peninsula! Thanks for bringing back the memories. I’ll never forget riding a rented 10-speed over Connor Pass, a tough climb followed by a harrowing but exhilarating drop down that steep, narrow road! Followed by live music and Guinness in a pub, of course.