Tiny World

How often do you spend time in the details?

That is one thing of many I love about photography. It teaches you to spend time in the details, to extract more and go on a path of discovery.

DTLA from Afar

Talk about a contrast yeah?

I don’t have much to say about this picture, other than I quite like it’s strong separation.

The Fickle Ways Of Dreams (A Poem)

Soft and thin, like smoke through the fingers

a slow sway of pompous display

a magic of reality

with you when you’re not with yourself

and like ash to the wind when you’ve come to.

Not here to be your friend

only a companion of brevity,

Much like life,

lived in a breath.

Dreams’ Reality ( A Poem )

The longer and tougher the path

the sweeter I let the journey become

regardless of my bleeding feet

the clearer the sky came to be

and more colorful the daisies I began to see.

Fickle the dream before,

the clearer now it has become.

Ball is Life

I took this photograph of basketball players in Venice California somewhere in my first year living in Los Angeles. It simply defines Los Angeles for me, pictorially.

It is one of my favorite pictures.

Sunflower In Sand

I liked what this represented. I was wrapping up a beach photoshoot and on the way back to solid ground I saw this flower bunch, somewhere you wouldn’t expect them to be.

It reminded me that beautiful things can spring up from places unexpected. It felt like miracles, how they simply come to be and how though off, a thing may be, it can still offer you something if you let it.

Man Alone

I sat at the beach, enjoying my cold overcast afternoon with leaks of sunlight, watching the ocean wave in and out when the most pensive man I most remember ever seeing walked by.

Here is the back of him. The front of him felt private.

Flower Beginnings

People were no longer seeing each other as quarantine was instated. I lived next to a park at the time and since there were no people to photograph and spring had arrived, I would take my camera and go find other things to photograph. Very easily, flowers became my point of focus. Several years Later, I still love photographing them very much, as they’ve become my second favorite thing to photograph. People being first.

Santa Monica Pier

Anyone who knows anything about Santa Monica or SoCal will see this picture and know exactly where it is. The famed Santa Monica Pier. I used to avoid the pier because it felt too “touristy” for a new local like me, till I found out it can be peaceful in the winter when you walk to the end and just watch the ocean ahead, with very little people around.

Santa Monica, CA.

Arabian Nights

I call this Arabian Nights, because as soon as I took the picture and looked at the preview it reminded me of the film, “Lawrence of Arabia”. Another photograph I quite love. So much to feast your eyes on. The layered sky and mountains, the scattered human interaction, the several shades of brown, and the bliss of sunset.

Venice CA

Cliff Dreaming

This was the first photoshoot I ever had in California after I moved to Los Angeles. Shot in the beautiful Palos Verdes. I still preserve that place as somewhere special. Kayla and I wanted to create a beautiful sense of self that represented the western coast where land and sea meet as friends.

Goodbye Day

I remember clearly the first sunset I experienced over the ocean which still remains one of my favorite sunsets. It was in Venice CA, when I first visited LA.

It left me mesmerized, and wanting more, and at the same time, left a satisfaction in my heart. I would be back, and back am I.