Author: JH

I avoid keeping similar images like the plague – in this case, however, I see the point for both. The effort with two similar images is exponentially bigger during post processing: It seems silly (at least to me) to let similar subjects like these wander too far off into different directions as to color hues and contrast – that would certainly destroy the illusion that what is in the photograph really looked that way… Below is an image of the same subject from about 30 seconds earlier (landing at LAX during a thunderstorm).

I find fascinating the transformation that public speakers go through – the gradual changes from “private mode,” to focussing on the event, to appearing before the audience and delivering the presentation, to winding down again. And, for a number of obvious reasons (historical, sociological, and practical), I find the changes even more interesting with female speakers. This photograph from before a presentation at a large scale event, Los Angeles Century City, InterContinental Hotel, 2009.

With five Manhattanites crammed into one car in Los Angeles, conversation inevitably revolves around the completely different use of your car in Manhattan. Driving around Beverly Hills, one of my fellow NYC-native passengers remarked that he bought a new car three years ago, and managed to drive 19.000 miles since (including trips to his in-laws in fly-over land, which make up for most of the milage). In L.A., our driver said, “you do that in one day.” After only three days there, the number seems quite plausible to me.