On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether youāre traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I decided, since I’m the organizer of the local photography meetup, to schedule a group shoot at UCLA. I said to meet by the Bruin and look for folk with cameras. What I did not realize is that there were lots of folk with cameras all around campus taking pictures of future graduates, which surprised me a bit since there’s a few weeks left in the quarter. About half the folk that RSVP’ed showed up which is normal if a bit rude. So I gave the folk a good tour of the campus, from the Mathis Botanical Garden(it wasn’t open) in the south, to the Murphy Sculture Garden in the north. I had a couple of selfish aims in scheduling this shoot, I wanted to get some shots of the campus with the IRChrome filter on the NX300 and I wanted to get some evening shots of Royce Hall(the building with the two towers) to do some sky replacement with some star trails.
A soon to be Bruin Alumna.
Kerckhoff Hall, there’s one at U$C, but ours looks better. This was the original student union building.
Side door of Royce Hall, I used exposure bracketing and blending to light up the dark hallway.
While it appears that the women under the central arch at Royce are wearing red, they are not, they are wearing black academic robes with green hoods, newly minted MD’s. Infrared light will reflect differently than visible light with certain dyes and fabrics.
Powell Library in Aerochrome.
They say confession is good for the soul? OK, when I was going though these photos before publishing them, I really didn’t like the sky on this shot and the next shot of Powell, so I replaced the sky. This is a panorama.
Panorama of Powell, with sky replacement.
Royce Hall Startrails, the sky was shot at Fossil Falls and light pollution along the horizon was added in.
eclare
The hallway shot is gorgeous!
Mary G
The red ones would be great covers for horror novels.
Another amazing shot:
There go two miscreants
I always enjoy Bill’s various IR shots, but the red vegetation is getting to look disturbingly normal to me after seeing it so often!
cckids
@Mary G:
That is awesome. I loved Valley of Fire when we lived in Vegas; such a unique place. Hiking was fun there.
I actually got one of my favorite photos that I’ve taken there – we’d been on the White Domes loop, it was closing in on a beautiful sunset & my 10-year-old son climbed up on a rock formation, looking out over the valley towards the sunset. He was quite a distance from me, but his silhouette & the colors were just perfect. I was sure I had a super shot (this was back in days of yore, with a film camera)
Got it developed, found it, and . . . he was peeing off the rock. It was from the back, so no exposure, but . . . guys apparently gotta do that. It’s a favorite family story and pic. :)
Laura Too
Lovely buildings with cool effects, Thanks!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@eclare: I’ve always liked that little hallway too.
@Mary G: They were pretty popular as album covers in the 60’s.Ā Wouldn’t the big horn sheep work with last week’s submission?
@There go two miscreants: At least there won’t be any red moon from me, too cloudy here.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@cckids: Heh, gotta do…
@Laura Too: I’ve shot regular IR there before, had to try this filter, especially with people.
Uncle Cosmo
Your thread brings to mind a hoary old snippet from Johnny Carson’s “Karnak the Magnificent,” when he’d don a turban, pronounce an answer to a question sealed in an envelope, then open the envelope and read the question:
:^D
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Uncle Cosmo: In Bruinland, the joke precedes Johnny’s telling of it.
Benw
No pics of Knudsen Hall!? It’s so… also on the UCLA campus
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Benw: I avoided Knudsen as an undergrad, so no pics.Ā //
Actually, the pic I took of the Duck Ellington memorial has a bit of Knudsen in it, but it just missed the cut.
Achrachno
It’s the Mathias Botanical Garden, not Mathis, named for Mildred Mathias a professor of botany who was well-known in her time.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Achrachno: Typo on my part, I visited there often during my years at UCLA.
jonas
It would have been great to see some images of the Murphy Sculpture Garden. There are some pretty famous pieces there and it’s just such a lovely, lush park area, especially on a hot summer day. One of my favorite places on campus.ā
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pat
Awesome architecture. When were they built?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jonas: It’s really nice in theĀ Spring when the jacarandas are blooming and they’re lit up with the lights in the trees.Ā I only took a few IR pics at the Murphy Sculpture Garden this trip, I’ve taken quite a few more in the past(all the way back to 1976).
@pat: The older buildings on campus were built in 1927-8.Ā The first structure on campus was a bridge over an arroyo just east of where they were going to build the first building.Ā It’s still there, but the sides have been filled in.Ā The only clue that it’s a bridge is the sign on it with vehicle weight restrictions.
natem
My alma mater is lookin’ good! Go Bruins!
EDIT: Also great to see Powell Library not behind construction barriers and in scaffolding. Unfortunately I attended at a time when they were retrofitting it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@natem: Campus was looking nice, it was a good day for graduation pics.Ā When I was there, Powell still had the ugly stacks in the back of the building, they got rid of them in the earthquake retrofit.
Howard Appel
I have very fond memories of the Sculpture Garden. I was finishing my senior year in 1988 (fyi I started in 1972) and had Tu/Th classes near the Sculpture Garden, with a break between 12:15 and 2 pm. I used to go out to the Sculpture Garden, lay out my beach blanket, strip down to my gym trunks, pop open a beer (or 2 or 3) and work on my tan (it was spring quarter). My friends used to laugh about the way I would come into Econometrics at 2 pm with my shades on and a little buzz. Good memories.