A lot of pictures. Most of the titles are song lyrics; extra points if you can identify them.
These aren’t in any kind of ranked order. They’re actually in the order I took them throughout the year.
1. Never - Niland, CA
2. Doomed to crumble unless we grow - Valley of Fire, NV
3. Life is Beautiful - Hollywood, CA
4. For fear of things still living in me - Central Park, Huntington Beach, CA
5. She’s calling you - Somewhere near Death Valley, CA
6. Kitty in the pet cemetery - Huntington Beach, CA
7. Kitty’s stockings - Huntington Beach, CA
8. I’ll take a vodka float - Westminster, CA
9. band practice - Huntington Beach, CA
10. I seem to think I don’t belong here - Los Angeles Public Library, downtown Los Angeles, CA
11. Living close to your fears - Downtown Los Angeles, CA
12. turn my whole world around - Los Angeles, CA
13. The walls between us will never break - Downtown Los Angeles, CA
14. love bible love - Niland, CA
15. Goodbye is just what you do - Los Angeles Public Library, downtown Los Angeles, CA
16. An outlaw or a leader - Downtown Huntington Beach, CA
17. Imaginary grace - Downtown Huntington Beach, CA
18. Bursting at the seams - Downtown Huntington Beach, CA
19. Leaving - Downtown Los Angeles, CA
20. Footsteps - Huntington Beach, CA
21. If I could open my arms - San Pedro, CA
22. I don’t recall a single care - Costa Mesa, CA
23. Rainbow of fun - Costa Mesa, CA
24. Confab - Huntington Beach, CA
25. Sometimes life surprises - Huntington Beach, CA
26. Must I paint you a picture - Downtown Los Angeles, CA
27. You’re the only song I want to hear - Hollywood, CA
28. This would never happen if we lived by the sea - Westminster, CA
29. Just don’t die on me - Huntington Beach, CA
30. Jump on in, the water’s fine for swimming - Seal Beach, CA
31. Gonna take something great just to get me out of bed - Huntington Beach, CA
32. Kitty in the sun - Huntington Beach, CA
33. Grieving for the loss of heaven - Huntington Beach, CA
34. You should be in my space - Westminster, CA
35. It’s just you, me and this wire - Westminster, CA
36. Free rain at the car wash - Huntington Beach, CA
37. It’s all over now - Westminster, CA
38. Was this your celebrated summer? - Newport Beach, CA
39. Yes - Newport Beach, CA
40. If you wake up and don’t want to smile - Huntington Beach, CA
41. The fragile waves of days - Huntington Beach, CA
42. Everything sleeps beneath - Huntington Beach, CA
43. I flew beyond the sun before it was time - Huntington Beach, CA
44. Bros - Hollywood, CA
45. What’s the point with a love that makes you hate and kill for. - Yermo, CA
46. Some time to think about it - Santa Ana, CA
47. Only in my dreams - Santa Ana, CA
48. Sit back and breathe - Santa Ana, CA
49. Let the broken sky break above our heads - Downtown Los Angeles, CA
50. Like the sky above me - Inglewood, CA
51. Window shopping - Beverly Hills, CA
52. May grief fall away like leaves from the trees - Rialto, CA
53. When death sleeps, it dreams of you - Agua Mansa Pioneer Cemetery, Colton, CA
54. Never minded working hard - Huntington Beach, CA
55. I love to feel the rain on my face - Rialto, CA
56. DOWN - Santa Ana River bike trail, Santa Ana, CA
December 31st, 2009 at 8:33 am
Wow. I loved this. You have such an eye. Many of these really moved me — especially with the titles added on. Beautiful.
December 31st, 2009 at 8:38 am
Thanks Julie! (I just edited/moved your comment from the wrong post.)
December 31st, 2009 at 9:14 am
An amazing compilation of work, must have been an amazing year. Ditto to Julie’s comments as well. Very moving.
December 31st, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Awesome. That should totally be published into a coffee table book.
January 1st, 2010 at 1:02 pm
You have a gift for the titles. And also the pictures. Obviously.
January 7th, 2010 at 2:01 pm
Such anticipation looking at your work. You never disappoint.
January 12th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Love em love em love em. I pointed to you on my blog, couldn’t resist.
I’m attracted to the text, though, to a fault. I wish you could put the titles as alternate text only, so I would enjoy the picture first, then mouse over for the punch-line.
I’m so lucky you did my wedding pics.
January 14th, 2010 at 8:41 am
Great pictures - all of them.
January 14th, 2010 at 2:35 pm
These are all so wonderful I just want to cry. You are such a massive talent.
January 15th, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Thanks everyone!
January 15th, 2010 at 11:36 pm
Good evening Cousin. Your Mom is my Grandmothers Sister. Been looking thru your site at your pictures. Not going to say good work for that would imply effort. Photography runs in our blood. Its a talent we have. A talent to show others how we as individuals view the world around us. By the way, on picture 30, the one at Seal Beach. If you turned around 180 degrees I lived in the first house on the right from 01 to 05. Enjoying Louisiana now for the time being. Well take care. Shoot what you feel, feel what you belive.
January 16th, 2010 at 8:18 am
Hey Jerry, neat to hear from you. You’re lucky to have lived in Seal Beach, I love that little town. Do you have a site where I can see your photography?
January 16th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Just on facebook.