“In photography, “golden hour” refers to the first hour after sunrise and the last hour before sunset, when the sun is low on the horizon, producing a warm, soft light ideal for capturing stunning images.” Google AI I bought my house 28 years ago. It’s surprising that it’s taken me almost three decades to realize my […]
My March 7 blog featured a model of one of the staged new car publicity shots that were so popular in the 1950s and 1960s complete with one of the ubiquitous Foster and Kleiser billboards. Although the billboards are clearly ads, there was some hard-to-define “something” that made them captivating. I decided to revisit the […]
A nondescript boxcar sits silently under a palm tree near the Everett Avenue crossing in Los Angeles in the Don Draper/Mad Men era. When I go out in the field to rail fan, I know going in that the odds are against actually catching a train. I’m fine with that and simply enjoy taking in […]
A quartet of 1961 Chevy Impala Super Sports sit under a starlit Los Angeles sky. Equipped with the legendary 409 big block, with an 11.25:1 compression ratio, they cranked out 360 horsepower. These stylistic masterpieces even inspired a hit song by the Beach Boys. Photo taken on my LAJ layout. Vehicles by Oxford Diecast.
In an era of unfiltered cigarettes and leaded gas, the LAJ switch job pulls eastward across District Blvd back to A Yard after a hard day’s work.