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This is my pathetic attempt from a long long delay of what I think was needed from Photography. Ill always be second best to the iPhone and the instagram users, but I can at least try.
It was always apparent when I lived in this city, that I never really felt at home. Thought I haven't felt like I have had a home for the past five years, Chicago was more a home to me than Los Angeles could ever be. Revisiting this city after a year and a half away, has made me really miss these streets, the sights, and the sounds.
The Abbot Hotel, by far the most vial looking places in Chicago, has always intrigued me. Not as a place I want to ever step foot in, but as a place where I know diseases grow, prostitutes and crackheads live, and a place where people who have nothing have a place to rest their head for a couple dollars that they somehow scraped off the streets.
I guess I am blessed within this statement for the fact that I have family that I can stay with when living in this city, being able to place myself far above the rest. I love that Chicago is one photogenic city. From up above, to far below the streets, there is never not a picture that hasn't been able to tell a story.
Though I probably will not end up living in the confines of this city, it will always remain a semi-home city for me.
This is Fillmore
I am trying to venture to more regions that many people are extremely unfamiliar with. Though, you, reading this may find that these regions are home...they are not to me. I have been blessed enough to spend quite some time living in Los Angeles. Whatever I need, I can readily get within the course of fifteen minutes (unless there is traffic). Throughout California there are plenty of these cities where the closest grocery store is your backyard, or forty miles away.
Today I spent some of my time in the city of Fillmore. This is quite the interesting place existing off i-126, where you can find some trains, train tours, train dinner things, and antique stores.
I haven't ever really explored much outside the city limits of Los Angeles, and today was my first ignorant day on the road (plenty of more to come). I saw a city that makes no sense to be there to me, but somehow very sustainable.
Should a hypothesis or some scientifically planned visit that I make to these cities be engaged before I show up? Should I be the one making the judgements that they make no sense to me?
No.
But I feel like there are plenty of misunderstood, missed, failed, or forgotten citied that exist through the state of California that MUST be seen. We cannot live in a state so full of experiences that we are not willing to take. I am convinced that these cities all have a reason, they have a story. I am going to document these stories and give them the light they need.
If there are any cities that exist that you are familiar with in the state of California, please feel free to comment below.
Eventful Week
I haven't been writing much, only really editing and reposting my photos all over the internet. I have gotten one of the best opportunities recently to help out some friends.
I have been shooting a web-series trailer with a star studded and comically genius crew for the past few weeks. Today was the wrap on the series and I am able to finally blog / post these photos for many to see.
I hope you enjoy some of these and for more go to my Flickr page.
of all the gin joints
I have started an ever growing obsession with the forgotten cities of California. Thanks to our friends on Youtube and Anthony Bourdain, I was introduced to the most interesting cities so far on my quest, Salton Sea.
This video provided me with more want to discover new things about it, but I am not the only one. Through my research of these abandoned cities, people have OBVIOUSLY beat me to finding them. Honestly, thank you for finding these cities, because I am sure my Nissan Versa and my lack of want to deal with weather over 90 degrees would have made these trips very short lived.
I am dealing with this temperature adjustment and am in current development in starting a photo series / book of these cities.
Typically I am the one who hates everything that everyone does. I am a cynic and look at most things half empty when it comes to the world of art. With so much out there, with so many people doing it, I live looking at it as something people think they can do. Art, apparently, isn't of what you do it is who you are. I am slowly grasping these concepts and trying to embrace the community, because we are a community. though communities have people like me, I won't be be accepted in looking at everything the way i do.
I have stumbled across a few things on Vimeo which uses my new obsession of Salton Sea as a backdrop for engagement photos.
Jason and Angela :: Salton Sea from Richelle Dante on Vimeo.
Please feel free to re-embedd these videos.
another disabled period
welcoming myself back to the world of internet usage for this page. over the past few months that I haven't used this site, I have come to realize how important these things are for the exposure of your work.
This post is just about what everyone will tell you about the importance of social media to network, I might just have to explain the same thing too. Though I am one to tell you about managing your time on your website, seeing as this is the first post in about eight months?? ( I'm too lazy to look when my last post was ) the time you spend on your website and blogging about the photos is as important as your editing process.
The options are obnoxiously out there. Take what you have and spread the word no matter how often you can. Recently I have been using tumblr to update my blogging, making it essentially easier and more quick than sitting down with my computer and writing out these long winded posts.
Find your story in each photo you have, each event you have, or each project you do and write about it. Putting a story behind the pictures you take adds a complete value that many "photographers" do not use. Though the term "photographer" is such a loosely used word, since everyone thinks they are one, you are able to put yourself a step ahead of your competition.
This is not going to be the last time this is updated, though it might take me a few more weeks to figure out what to blog about, Im still here.
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