February 13, 2019
View from my “second home”
I’ve posted pictures of the winter view of Downtown LA from the Baldwin Hills in the past. Last week we received a great deal of rain here in Southern California from some cold storms. This meant that our local mountains received a good deal of snow at lower elevations(2500 feet). So, once the clouds had mostly cleared, I braved the traffic and headed up to Kenneth Hahn(he was a long serving member of our county governing body, the Board of Supervisors). Various parts of the park are named for his family, the grassy bowl area just west of where these shots were taken is named after his daughter Janice(who currently has his seat on the Board). I made 3 trips up there in the past week: the first I shot the snow at its greatest coverage, the second I shot IR and the summits of the mountains without clouds, and the third was a shoot with the local photography meetup group(no mountains were visible).
Read MoreI’ve posted pictures of the winter view of Downtown LA from the Baldwin Hills in the past. Last week we received a great deal of rain here in Southern California from some cold storms. This meant that our local mountains received a good deal of snow at lower elevations(2500 feet). So, once the clouds had mostly cleared, I braved the traffic and headed up to Kenneth Hahn(he was a long serving member of our county governing body, the Board of Supervisors). Various parts of the park are named for his family, the grassy bowl area just west of where these shots were taken is named after his daughter Janice(who currently has his seat on the Board). I made 3 trips up there in the past week: the first I shot the snow at its greatest coverage, the second I shot IR and the summits of the mountains without clouds, and the third was a shoot with the local photography meetup group(no mountains were visible).
Downtown LA with snowcapped San Gabriels.
So checking the weather the following day, visibility was still pretty good, so I headed back to the Baldwin Hills to shoot the mountains with less cloud cover. There were a couple of problems, the breeze had stopped and there was more haze and there had been some snow melt. This panorama(it’s part of a much larger one), was shot on my first trip, but I’ve added the mountain summits from the next day so that the clouds appear to be behind the mountains.
Downtown Los AngelesKenneth Hahn Regional ParkSan Gabriel Mountains
