My Los Ángeles - Page 25

atlantaguy · #**481** Posted **Sep 21, 2023, 1:49 PM**

I love your posts, sopas ej! ❤

I miss L.A.

sopas ej · #**482** Posted **Sep 21, 2023, 10:48 PM**

Thanks, atlantaguy!

oskar88 · #**483** Posted **Sep 26, 2023, 11:53 AM**

What an amazing picture! I especially love the close-up shot of the insect. I was curious about the camera you used for this shot. I'm typically a Canon EOS DSLR user myself, but I'm interested in knowing about the camera you used

Thanks!

sopas ej · #**484** Posted **Sep 26, 2023, 3:44 PM**

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What an amazing picture! I especially love the close-up shot of the insect. I was curious about the camera you used for this shot. I'm typically a Canon EOS DSLR user myself, but I'm interested in knowing about the camera you used

Thanks!

Thanks for your comment!

Which insect picture are you referring to? Hehe it's been a while since I've looked through my older pictures in this thread; I don't use a fancy camera... since around February of 2021, I've been using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS100. I used an older Panasonic Lumix prior to February of 2021, but I don't remember the exact model.

oskar88 · #**485** Posted **Sep 26, 2023, 6:13 PM**

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Thanks for your comment!

Which insect picture are you referring to? Hehe it's been a while since I've looked through my older pictures in this thread; I don't use a fancy camera... since around February of 2021, I've been using a Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS100. I used an older Panasonic Lumix prior to February of 2021, but I don't remember the exact model.

On the first page there is one with a cool zoom into an insect in a jeans. By the way thanks for the info!!

sopas ej · #**486** Posted **Sep 26, 2023, 7:46 PM**

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On the first page there is one with a cool zoom into an insect in a jeans. By the way thanks for the info!!

You're very welcome!

OK, yeah, I took that photo with a Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5. I just had to look up the model.

sopas ej · #**487** Posted **Sep 30, 2023, 4:19 AM**

Last week...

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Another day...

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Saw this driving home from dinner last night.

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sopas ej · #**488** Posted **Oct 19, 2023, 2:51 AM**

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sopas ej · #**489** Posted **Oct 30, 2023, 5:35 PM**

My photo dump of ArroyoFest 2023 (Sunday, 10.29.2023).

The last ArroyoFest was held 20 years ago in October of 2003. I'm hoping this becomes an annual event. Basically, 6 or 7 miles of the Arroyo Seco Parkway (CA-110) from Pasadena to Lincoln Heights was shut down to automobile traffic for four hours, and open to pedestrians, runners, cyclists, skateboarders scooter riders... it was fun. I walked a total of 4 miles, from my apartment in South Pasadena to the nearest 110 onramp, which is acually only a few blocks away, and walked to the Highland Park neighborhood of LA, and then walked back to my apartment. The Arroyo Seco Parkway is a landmarked freeway, the oldest freeway in the western United States. It opened in 1940. It was very interesting seeing this freeway, one I drive often, from the perspective of a pedestrian.

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The southbound lanes were for walkers/runners/wheelchairs/baby stollers, and the northbound lanes were for cyclists, skateboarders, scooter riders...

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If only they could unconcrete the Arroyo Seco to its natural state again...

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I saw and heard the one woman on the right say to the other woman "Aren't you...?" And the other woman said "Yes, I'm Kathryn Barger." Kathryn Barger is one of the 5 LA County Supervisors. She's the only Republican, the rest are Democrats. All of them are women. I did not vote for her. Because of redistricting, my city was included with the very conservative northern half of Los Angeles County.

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I used the Orange Grove onramp to walk off the freeway...

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And then I walked back onto the freeway using the Orange Grove offramp.

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Fair Oaks is my exit to get home...

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...but I walked a little bit past Fair Oaks to take a few more pictures.

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jmecklenborg · #**490** Posted **Nov 2, 2023, 6:52 PM**

If I was still 16 I'd be tempted to ride my BMX bike on the top of that center jersey barrier.

sopas ej · #**491** Posted **Nov 10, 2023, 2:56 AM**

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If I was still 16 I'd be tempted to ride my BMX bike on the top of that center jersey barrier.

I can see that... the top of the barrier is fairly wide, too.

sopas ej · #**492** Posted **Nov 10, 2023, 4:08 AM**

Very random photos, taken over the past few weeks... of restaurants that I like, and stuff.

A Oaxacan place, in Temple City.

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Tacos de chapulines.

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Montrose.

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Vermouth and café bombon.

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Altadena.

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My car.

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Portuguese chicken.

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Southern lemon pie.

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Los Angeles.

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My car behind a Mercedes or something about to pull away.

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I've wondered about the history of this house in South Pasadena.

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Dinner in Burbank.

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Calamari.

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Pollo alla contadina.

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Tiramisu.

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Pasadena.

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sopas ej · #**493** Posted **Nov 14, 2023, 4:53 AM**

Photo dump of my Sunday, 11.12.2023.

An afternoon spent at The Huntington.

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The 320 year-old Shōya House, which was disassembled and sent from Japan and put back together at The Huntington in San Marino and opened last month.

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I liked this bamboo fence.

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The Chinese Garden.

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I jokingly asked my partner, "So in China, do you think they have American gardens that people over there visit?" And he said "Oh, and it would consist of a lawn?" And I was like "Yeah, and maybe a basketball court."

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Getting coffee.

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Café cubano.

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sopas ej · #**494** Posted **Nov 18, 2023, 7:30 PM**

Tree trimming.

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The SAG/AFTRA strike is definitely over. They're back to filming in my neighborhood.

Oh those glamorous Showbiz Restrooms!

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sopas ej · #**495** Posted **Nov 23, 2023, 12:03 AM**

Pictures I took over the recent weekend; we made Saturday a museum day, at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena.

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We went specifically for this exhibit.

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This looks like a guy I used to work with.

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The resemblance is almost uncanny.

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Twink Jesus.

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I call this "Ayyyyy, Dios mío..."

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I called this room The Garage Sale Room.

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Dinnertime.

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Seafood pasta.

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Sunday lunch.

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Chicken curry with fries.

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Bougie market shopping.

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I got a bag of these peanut butter chocolate clusters. They tasted kinda weird... I don't think I'll get them again.

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Anyone wanna bag of Irish moss? I don't.

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sopas ej · #**496** Posted **Dec 6, 2023, 3:37 AM**

Random photos I took over the last few weeks.

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Thai food...

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...with Thai beer.

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A very old mummy wrapping that to me looks like a fairly modern ACE bandage.

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A little blurred.

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Not part of the Book of the Dead exhibit.

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Huge pomegranates. They looked like X-mas ornaments to me.

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Petrus sours. Yum...

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...to go with my goulash...

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...and my partner's Jägerschnitzel.

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Sunday brunch. A mango margarita.

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Chilaquiles.

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sopas ej · #**497** Posted **Dec 13, 2023, 3:39 AM**

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sopas ej · #**498** Posted **Dec 22, 2023, 4:22 AM**

Very random photos I took over the last week, with a blurb in Laguna Beach. Yeah, Laguna Beach is in Orange County, and I've tried to keep this thread an LA County only thread, but I've already previously included Orange County photos in here.

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Catalina Island in the background there.

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sopas ej · #**499** Posted **Dec 29, 2023, 6:07 PM**

Late fall/early winter, and those waning days of 2023...

A visitor?

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Hangin' out at an izakaya.

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sopas ej · #**500** Posted **Jan 3, 2024, 6:17 PM**

My last drive to work of 2023.

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My last weekend of 2023.

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Bread and a bottle of Torrontés.

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Chicken empanadas. This place makes really good empanadas, too.

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Dessert.

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I was last at this theater many years ago. I saw a restored print of "The Sound of Music."

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Loud sports nerds. I think they were out-of-towners.

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The next day---Sunday, December 31, 2023.

Some time at a botanical garden.

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Camillias can bloom from autumn through spring. There were some at this botanical garden; we know that usually in January-February the camellias really bloom here. We're gonna come back here in another 3-4 weeks.

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The cocktail hour...

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New Year's Eve tapas.

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New Year's Day, 2024.

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More wishes on the wishing tree this year, it seems.

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Pounding the mochi.

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Namahage.

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