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Hail the 'Hood'


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This 'hood' resident's message is clear -- pride in the neighborhood.

Taken in ethnic South Central Los Angeles, an area seldom visited by

many Anglos, many of whom fear it and have never even driven through

the very large and heavily populated area - full of colorfully decorated

storefronts, but also home with East LA to a substantial gang

population. Your ratings and critiques are invited and most welcome. If

you rate harshly or very critically, please submit a helpful and

constructive comment; please share your superior photographic

knowledge to help improve my photography. Thank! Enjoy! John

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of background. Back from flu (quite a terrible one) and I still need to recover: this is good medicine for my eyes and soul! It seems you touched the very heart of the "hood", compliments, thank you for sharing, Giuseppe
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Yes, they do need Him.

 

I have my own views on religion but won't turn this into Crosley's Philosophy, like Hugh Hefner did with Playboy.

 

;~))

 

I just take the photos; I don't endorse their religions.

 

John (Crosley)

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I number my downloads (now from 8 gig cards) each. I was up to about 138 when I switched from the D70 then to a new numbering system and had run that to no. 453 last year when I took this. I'm up to about 618 or so as of today, excluding some wonderful nature/bird shots that were filed separately and stored separately (backups were with original) when my car got cleaned out last may with lenses and cameras, another reason why I am so adamant about 'backing up' and separating backups from originals. Still, in Ukraine last summer I had an original and a hard drive with 15 original downloads crash on me -- both American manufacture of 'highest quality' -- within a day of each other - and before I got those 15 downloads backed up. A few are 'worked up' and stored, but some are simply lost for all time.

 

I had a recovery expert pull apart the hard drives but he got nothing, even having done so in a 'clean room', since they had run briefly with crashed heads, overwriting and damaging all data.

 

Rule: Back up all files daily or so, then separate backups always from originals and maybe backup two or three times more.

 

So, as you have guessed, this photo is just over a year old, from download no. 453 of the new numbering system. I have new software that allows me to review/browse my old captures more quickly).

 

I do not much like most of the work of Garry Winogrand, but his general rule that he put his captures 'on ice' for weeks,months, years or even decades (even it seems a lifetime, as he died with hundreds of thousands of unreviewed captures and undeveloped rolls numbering in tens of thousands), has some applicability to my situation.

 

I look through some of my old stuff and say 'wow,I took that'?

 

I am amazed by some my older stuff, but then I usually look through a day's or a week's captures and then try just to choose one or more to post then move on and the rest get interred, hoping some day to have them 'curated' again like the Licie Award winning printer did for me ending one year ago.

 

(Some of my older stuff also, is just crap, too, In fact 99% of it. I live for the single capture, not the 'average' or the 'mean', but only for the high point. If I take a thousand photos and only one of them is stunning, and only show that one, my reputation will ride on it - not on all the crap I might take -- that separates me from a wedding or assignment photographer. Thankfully, my day-to-day captures are looking real, real good these days, and my 'intent' is becoming really clear, as I narrow in on my subjects, trying to get the precise look and composition -- still, sometimes a single shot, caught in a moment will carry the day and be my best and most inspired, and those shots may sometimes take one to three seconds to see, frame and release shutter.

 

This is an 'older one' where I sat across the street and down with a telephoto and just waited, and not very long at that.

 

This guy has spied me in my car, and this is his reaction.

 

I got other shots too of him and others, including just one very good one. Others often had people's backs turned to me, as they were going the wrong direction. If they were going facing me, they often saw me but averted their glances.

 

His look is partly pride, I think, and I say 'good for him' He's proud and has nothing to hide.

 

Thanks, Giuseppe.

 

Good (better) health to you.

 

I knew of your bad health, and was not being neglectful.

 

John (Crosley)

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