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A BLOCK OF THE MILE
The building that originally housed Desmond’s department store, and one of the mostly intact survivors of a golden age of Art Deco along Los Angeles’ historic “Miracle Mile”. By MICHAEL PERKINS...
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GRAND BALLET
Third Street Promenade, Santa Monica, 2013. By MICHAEL PERKINS SOMETIMES THROWING EVERYTHING INTO THE POT MAKES FOR BETTER STEW. Yeah, of course a simple bowl of tomato soup can be elegant,...
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RISING TO THE OCCASION
The Desmond building’s elevator floor indicator, circa 1928. 1/40 sec., f/1.8, ISO 100, 35mm. By MICHAEL PERKINS LOS ANGELES USED TO BE COMPOSED OF MANY PEOPLE LIKE RUBEN PARDO, the balding, beaming...
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CHANGE OF PLAN
Rainy day, dream away. Griffith Observatory under early overcast, 11/29/13. 1/160, f/5.6, ISO 100, 35mm. by MICHAEL PERKINS VISUAL WONDERS, IN EVERY HOUR AND SEASON, ARE THE COMMON CURRENCY OF...
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CROP YOUR WAY TO SUCCESS
By MICHAEL PERKINS Whoops, I wasn’t ready. 1/100 sec., f/5.6, ISO 100, 35mm. THOSE OF US WHO HAVE LOGGED SOME TIME IN THE WAITING ROOMS OF PEDIATRICIANS can recall struggling through the “Hidden...
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THE TORQUOISE TIME TRAVELER
The wondrous Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles. A three-exposure HDR to amplify time’s toll on the building’s exterior. by MICHAEL PERKINS SHE HAS WITHSTOOD THE GREAT DEPRESSION, A WORLD WAR, DECADES OF...
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REAL PHONIES
Reality check: a retail mall in Hollywood, doubling as a tribute to D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance. huh? By MICHAEL PERKINS “You’re wrong. She is a phony. But on the other hand you’re right. She isn’t a...
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THOSE WHO STAND AND WAIT
Please Listen For Announcements, 2015. The iconic waiting room at Los Angeles’ Union Station terminal. By MICHAEL PERKINS SHOW ME A HOLIDAY SEASON AND I’LL SHOW YOU PEOPLE WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO...
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IT’S A JIGSAW OUT THERE
By MICHAEL PERKINS AS A PHOTOGRAPHER, IT SEEMS TO ME that a municipality only qualifies as a “real” city when it becomes nearly impossible to visually identify its beginnings. Neighborhoods may begin...
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LOOK, UP IN THE SKY!
By MICHAEL PERKINS IN ONE SENSE, THE GLOBAL LOCKDOWN OF 2020 has created the biggest simultaneously experienced event outside of a world war. The advertising slogans are right: we really are in this...
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