karen maze photoblog

March 15, 2009

On February 28, I was invited as part of a group of photographers to spend the day atop a double decker Starline Tours bus and drive around Los Angeles taking of the landmarks most of us have almost stopped noticing - and some I’d never really noticed in the first place…

A couple of my favorites are below. To more photos, please click here.

You can see highlights from the tour from all the tour’s photographers by clicking here. It’s interesting to see how so many people can go photograph the same things, and yet each photo is unique.

Enjoy!

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I’ve been really into this Diana Lens I picked up recently. I got a 38mm lens and a Nikon mount, so I could put it on my Nikon D700 DSLR - and it is so much fun. Sure, it isn’t really Lomography, but it gives me the flexibility I’m used to, with an added element of fun.

There are many different Lomography cameras. The Diana lens, as you might expect, is usually found on a Diana camera, which is a medium format film camera made almost entirely of plastic - that includes the lens. Here’s Tuna with his special edition Tokyo Rising Diana:

Tuna and his Tokyo Rising Diana

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This photograph was taken while on the LA Cultural Photo Tour on 2/28/2010. A lucky few of us was invited by the Los Angeles CVB (LA Inc.) to be tourists in our own town, atop a double decker bus, no less.  The program was part of Discover Arts Los Angeles, which continues through April 30.

I’ll be posting more about the photo tour later in the week. For now, my favorite photo of the day…

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