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About kelson_photos

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Hobbyist photographer in the Los Angeles area. Mostly scenic shots, architecture & plants.

I've consolidated my photo posting here instead of my main account at @kelson so that I can use the grid layout, and so that if you only want to follow my photos and not my random boosts and commentary, you can.

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 A white bird, standing in shallow water with breeds behind it and mud in front. Its neck curves back, and its beak is long and sharp. Below, its reflection ripples only a little in the nearly still water.
Tree branches with green or red leaves frame a still pond beyond an expanse of mud. The pond reflects the gray sky, as well as the reeds and green trees behind it.
At first it looks like halves of a curved vase pulled apart, or an opening gateway. But it's a white bird and its reflection as it leans over the water, rotated so the waterline and reflection are vertical instead of horizontal. The right side of the image is distorted by mostly vertical ripples.
Looking uphill along a narrow muddy trail shaded by trees on both sides and above. A narrow rill of water runs along it. Small branches and loose wooden planks have been placed along the trail.
A two-level building with shallowly peaked roof and a much taller bell tower with spikes ringing it like the Witch-King of Angmar's crown. One side of the main building, and one side of the tower, are brightly lit by sunlight. The nearer face of each is in shadow, but only by comparison. Bushes and grass line the foreground.
The same building, but seen from a bit further back. There's another whole wing on the other side of the bell tower, and a walkway leading past the grassy area in front of the building toward the corner of the frame. A low semicircular wall wraps around a pedestal lined with glazed blue ceramic tiles, which if seen closer would reveal a sundial on top.
Looking up at a hazy sky. A bright spot silhouettes the boxy tops of a light post. That brightness fades into the blue sky until it reaches a sharply defined circle, centered on that bright spot. The inner edge may be sharp, but the outside just fades into the sky. Treetops fill the lower corners of the frame.
The same ring in the same sky, but nothing's blocking the sun. So the center is completely washed out solid white, with sharp, bright white lines streaking out to the edges of the frame. It's all slightly off center, and just ever so slightly distorted by the wide angle lens being used to capture the entire halo.
Angry squirrel on the grass, its tail fluffed out.
Angry squirrel standing on its hind legs in the grass with its front paws held together.
A sculpture of a tiny dragon curled up asleep, between lumpy roots of a real tree trunk.
A sign by the side of a road, a few telephone/power pokes, dry grass and trees, proclaims, Caution: Scenic Overlook!
Looking out over a hillside with tall junipers, some roofs, some green scrub bushes. Some hazy mountains and awkward clumps of cloud are visible in the distance.
A two-level brick building on a sunny day, the building edges painted white. One of the upper-level windows has a life-size flat cut-out of Spider-Man climbing out of the window, one leg hidden behind the sill. At ground level, right next to the left edge of the building, an area is painted white for two doors with a mailbox in between. The right doorframe has been completely filled in with a featureless flat surface, with a very verbose, boring looking sign that boils down to No Trespassing.
A pie sitting on top of a round baking sheet. The Greek letter Pi has been cut out on the otherwise flat (but a bit lumpy) crust, revealing dark red cherry filling inside. The pine table is almost the same shade as the lightly browned crust.
A waterfall about the height of a house, its lowest step clearly a flat block of concrete, drops from behind a sparsely-leaved tree and past a short building with enclosed balconies. Past the edges of the waterfall you can see a pair of spreading concrete walls with water stains and crawling vines. Grasses, mallows and iceplants grow around the edges and up to the foreground.
A shallow creek, looking a sickly yellow-green, runs diagonally past bushes on one side and an overhanging tree on the other out toward the sea, which is visible beyond a jumble of rocks. The tree is mostly bare, but a few leaves are visible - whether the first of spring or the last of winter is hard to be sure in this climate.
The silhouettes of two trees wrap around a view of pale blue sky and deeper blue ocean, and a glimpse of sand. The trees have smallish, narrow leaves, and the trunk of the tree on the right is curved like a backwards letter C, literally wrapping around the view. A hint of the far shore is visible on the horizon.
A stream of water cascades over a rough, bumpy surface of mud and moss, breaking into smaller streams and bouncing as it falls into a foamy pool below. The pool is surrounded by greenery, though the trees have shed their leaves. Tangles of bare twigs almost, but not quite hide the sides of the concrete-lined ditch at the top of the waterfall. Sunlight falls on some of the greenery, but the waterfall and the pool are largely in shadow.
A stone path runs diagonally from one corner of the frame toward an octagonal gazebo, half-hidden behind a bright green bush. A hill rises in the distance below a bright blue sky.
A steep, narrow channel curves around a hill beyond which you can see a blue triangle of ocean. The hill is brownish-yellow, but green plants grow in the foreground and down in the channel. Off to the left, if you look closely, you can see a stream at the bottom of the channel.
A rocky shore, the rocks smoothed by the waves, curves around a quiet ocean cove on a bright sunny day. Cliffs rise on the far side of the cove.
Looking up. A road curves from the scrubby foreground up to run alongside a backlit cliff. A gazebo -- the same one as in the first photo - is visible at the top, and a few trees rise up in front of the cliff next to the road.
Looking up at the top of a lamppost where two gray birds are perched. The pole is gray. The sky is gray. The lamp, unlit, is a smooth ball wrapped with one horizontal metal band around the middle and two vertical bands at right angles, atop a narrow pedestal at the top of the pole. A spike sticks up from the top. The lamp looks like a featureless globe. And it's also gray.
A smallish bird with a long, narrow, curved beak, standing on top of some seaweed surrounded by medium-sized rocks (the size of several small rocks).
Two birds sitting on the surface of the ocean, one larger with a long, deep beak, the other much smaller with a short, hooked beak.
Looking up at a clifftop with scrub and a few trees clinging to it. A bird with wide wings and a fan-shaped tail is flying past it, backlit by the sun.
A bee is perched on a small white flower with lots of petals and a yellow center.
A car shaped like an upward-curving hot dog on a wavy base so it looks like a giant hot dog has been smooshed onto a long 1950s convertible. The base is yellow, the hot dog is bright orange, and there are curved windows set into the front so a driver can see where they're going. The Oscar Mayer logo is painted on the side, looking like the strip of labeling in their typical hot dog package. It's all bright and shiny, clearly well-maintained and not just a relic of a bygone era.
The same car seen from the front. Backlit. You can see normal cars in the next aisle over, and a low retail building behind it including a Michael's craft supply store. The lighting is honestly terrible, I don't know why I'm including this photo when I have the other one.
A double rainbow arcs over a suburban street shining with rain. A few treetops across the way trace their own arc up inside, and the main band lines up with the edge of a sign for a small strip mall. The outer band is fainter, but still clear enough to see that the colors are reversed. The clouds look noticeably brighter inside the primary rainbow than outside.
Nighttime view looking across a cove. Nearby a single building, lit yellow, is half-hidden by the bluffs. Across the water, pinpoints of light dot the coast, some reflecting on the surface, including one bright white light whose reflection forms a narrow, wavering triangle across the entire cove. The night sky beyond fades from a bright white near the horizon to dark blue higher up.
A dilapidated sign reading MOTEL down the side and Driftwood across the middle. Next to it stands a sparse, dug-up lawn and a sidewalk, with a trio of palm trees with narrow trunks and wide fronds, a yucca tree with a single trunk, mathematically even branches, and clusters of spiky leaves, and some shorter tree that looks a bit gnarly and might have oranges growing on it. Behind the trees is a low building with faded paint and a chimney that can be seen right through an open window that doesn't seem to have glass in it.
Sunlit wall with two painted hands pointing left: one bright sky-blue labeled BOOKS, the other bright orange labeled COFFEE.
A small bright red table, two chairs and a potted plant sit in front of a wall. On the wall is painted a large red arrow pointing left, the word COFFEE emblazoned within.
The wedge-shaped city center of Los Angeles seen in the distance, a line of mountains behind them with the upper parts covered with snow. Various pine and toyon trees frame the foreground.
A tall office building that looks like it was hastily wrapped in giant yarn sits above the bank of a concrete-lined channel with some water running through it as it winds through a city. The upper banks are green, and low warehouses spread across the view. Behind the warehouses is a greenish building that looks like it might make an S shape if seen from above, and another tower behind it, and then it all fades into a jumble of buildings and treetops from there back to the foothills of the mountains in the distance.
A wide city panorama, mountains behind it. The warehouses and wrapped building from the second photo are visible at left. Toward the lower right, the warehouses give way to suburban houses, with clusters of taller trees (most green, some red, some bare) growing between the houses. Off in the distance to the upper right, downtown Los Angeles' wedge-shaped cluster of tall buildings is visible (unimpeded by the trees seen in the first photo). A few peaks of the mountain range are covered with snow.
A small, mostly brown bird perched in a bush with small, pale-but-still-green leaves, with white and black stripes running along the top of its head.
Three black-and-white birds with long necks seen from below, their wings stretched in flight as they cross a sky split between blue and thin white clouds
A bird swimming on a pond, its wings folded. Its eyes are weirdly close to its long, hooked beak. In the distance a shoreline can be seen with a few turtles and some sort of bushes with green leaves. The surface of the pond ripples a bit, reflecting mostly green from the surrounding plants.
Two mallards, one male (green head, brown neck, white body) and one female (mostly brown), both ducks with orange legs and webbed feet, stand almost but not quite facing each other on a surface of dirt, wood chips and dried leaves. Behind them, a bushy-tailed squirrel glances back from the edge of a curving brick path, as if to confirm they aren't following.
Lots of bright green plants on a hillside, on a sunny day. A wooden sign, not quite blocked, proclaims Dale's Trail. Nearby, a smaller sign shows a picture of a footprint and the red-circle-with-a-slash-through-it NO icon.
Looking down at a cove surrounded by steep cliffs. The ocean is mostly blue, except for a light greenish line that extends out from the midpoint of the cove's arc, suggesting an outflow of some sort.
Red bluffs rise almost, but not quite vertically above a blue ocean. A lone person is visible walking along what must be a steep trail. A flock of pelicans whirls through the sky above the bluffs, and a low line of mountains is visible off in the hazy distance.
A plain of scrub brush in various shades of green, some rather large houses in the middle distance and some green hills (with more scrub, trees, and a few buildints) behind them.
A fence separates a flat, graded dirt path from a thin line of coastal shrubs, with a steep dropoff to the ocean beyond. The path, fence and bluffs all curve away into the distance, and a lighthouse is just barely visible.
A tall white-walled cylindrical lighthouse sits at the end of a road that curves through a grassy field. Palm trees (and one stump) flank the road, while several squarish buildings cluster near its base. Beyond, you can see the ocean and a hazy blue sky.
A very boxy, vaguely industrial-looking car parked by the side of a suburban road, with trees and low apartment buildings on the far side. Despite its utilitarian design, the car is painted bright yellow, and emblazoned with the label of the model's US/Canada branding: The Thing.
Corner storefront with double doors (opaque) and a large, but darkened window. The one-level building is painted white with black trim. The only signage visible is the word Obsolete painted in a tasteful serif font above the doors.
Very blurry silhouette of a bird swimming across an otherwise empty pool of water.
A round, teal-colored pumpkin has most of a circle carved out of it. Most, because the silhouette of a deer's head and antlers is visible against the orange glow from the candle inside.
A cartoonish character with an ace as a head is carved in outline on a light yellow pumpkin. It's sort of dark, but not really, and the figure glows orange from the candle within.
A darkened window with a purple neon sign blazing the words "In Burritos We Trust" in dynamic faux-cursive.
An open door on the outside of a building, taking up almost half of a narrow strip of wall. The wall is black or dark grey, the other half featuring a line drawing of a fox sitting on a stool at a bar looking at a martini glass. The drawing is lit by a single hanging lamp. A low wooden railing and glimpses of a window can be seen to the left, a wall of plain tiles to the right, and ambient light spills in from both sides.
A narrow dirt trail passes through bright green trees and bushes.
A short wooden footbridge with only one railing spans a very small stream, surrounded by scraggly-looking trees.
A dirt trail, clearly cut out of the hillside, runs along a very small stream. A tree with lots of twigs but no visible leaves grows from the streambed, while leaves from other trees and bushes are visible behind it and around the frame.
A rectangular pedestal lined with irregular (but flattened) stones, with a smooth top inscribed The Cool Overlook. A few scraggly twigs are visible next to it, and a dove is perched on top, its head sideways so one eyes it looking at the camera and the other is looking out toward the ocean that fills the frame.
A curved bench lined with irregular flat stones, the pedestal from the other photo next to it. The bench and pedestal are outlined in the dirt with a line of those same stones in the shape of a D. Beyond it are some low bushes, some paddle-shaped cactus, and the narrow stalks of a fennel plant jutting up above a line of posts, cable strung through them to indicate a boundary. The land clearly drops off right past the cactus, because all you can see beyond it is the clear blue of the ocean, and beyond that a fuzzy horizon and a layer of haze fading into the sky.
Photo of a blurry lizard with sharply-focused twigs in front of it. An image of Clippy, the paperclip-styled cartoon "assistant" from 1990s Microsoft Office, complete with googley eyes and floating eyebrows, is superimposed, with the caption, "Hi! it looks like you're trying to take a photo of this lizard! May I interest you in these dry twigs instead?"
Dirt trail winding past a low bushes, some with pale pink flowers, others with light green leaves. A darker, off-center tree is visible a ways down the trail, with the ocean and a partly-cloudy sky beyond.
A wide, flat area of mostly dry grass and some scrub, with a scrubby hill to the left and the ocean to the right. Dirt roads cross the flat area, and clumps of darker green trees are visible on the ocean side of the plain.
Dirt trail running between dry scrub towards a hill. A cluster of green trees is visible in front of the hill, and at the top, houses and palm trees can be seen. Near the top, two oblong concrete structures are visible.
Cluster of low scrubby bushes with green leaves and light brown flowers. Behind it, a few trees wrapped around a solitary olive-green building. The plants all look like they've actually had access to water, unlike most of the ones in the other photos that have dried out for summer.
The back of a pickup truck parked in front of a motel. The owner (presumably) has added an N to the Tacoma logo, making it read TACOMAN.
Close up of part of a hedge almost completely covered with five-petaled white flowers.
Looking along a narrow valley between rolling green hills fitted with trees and a few houses