3 sides

The same shadow from three angles.

Neon night

Looking up at a restaurant's neon sign and the plants on the upper patio.

Vineland

Ground level

Shone

Lights and shadows

(Notice in the second shot the light reflects off two buildings.)

Downer

Up at night

Spiked

Another set of alternate focus shots...

(Silk-floss tree.)

Night ride

Escalator at night.

Today

Hazy sun rising through the smoke of the wildfires.

Tree down the street

Frondly

Going up

Escalator on the southeast corner of California Plaza.

Hanging out

Vines hanging over bars.

Let it out

Extreme close-up of the exhaust vents at the base of one of the downtown skyscrapers.

No stopping

Long shadow of street sign cast by midday sun

reflecting off downtown skyscraper (California Plaza One).

Street flower

Not waiting on a lady

Evening at the steps at the end of the Willow station on the Blue Line.
(Yes, they go down to gravel.)

More of... oh, you know

RPV

Looking out from Point Vicente, Ranchos Palos Verdes.

Shooter

Water Court, California Plaza.

Drifters

Looking east. No rain.

Stepping down

Bird

Bird statue like piece in a pool in the Citigroup Center in downtown L.A.

Sunrise in four minutes

6:26 am

6:28 am

6:30 am

Morning hunter

Looking down the hill toward Discovery Well Park in Signal Hill, the automatic focus dwells on (what I believe are) cacti in the foreground.

Fair enough.




However, switching over to the manual focus, I captured what I actually wanted to photograph.





Webs illuminated by sunrise.

Dawn

Purple flowers illuminated by dawn's first light.



(Yes, it's supposed to be focused on the flowers in the background.)