I took these photos on a trip to California a couple years ago.  We drove down the coast from Santa Cruz to LA - if you ever get a chance, take the trip, it's a beautiful drive. 

 

LA is has more dense urban development than I expected.  I guess you get the impression from TV and movies that it's an endless sea of suburbs, but many parts of the city are lively with lots of pedestrian traffic.  Here's the view from the Getty museum:

 

 

If you squint you can see downtown LA in the far distance.  The skyline in the midground is Century City.  LA has two or three large downtown areas, depending on who's counting. 

 

Here's a photo in the Hollywood area with the famous sign in the distance.  Hollywood is both a big tourist trap and a very cool neighborhood with a wide ethnic and income diversity.

 

 

This is a view of the street grid from Runyon Canyon park.  This sort of reminds me of Sim City, but with way more smog:

 

 

Having grown up in Ohio, cacti and palm trees seem out of place to me:

 

 

This is as good of a picture of downtown LA as I could get.  I actually like the way the photo turned out, it gives a fair impression of the oppressive heat that day:

 

 

This barbed wire fence bordered the park - my guess is to keep the public out of the very expensive neighborhoods on the neighboring hills.  I was less impressed by the more expensive parts of town.  Beverly Hills, for example, looks like it's filled with paranoid agoraphobics.  Giant fences to keep your millionaire neighbors out, and that sort of thing.

 

 

You can see more photos of LA and California here.

 

These are really cool. You're a great photographer.

 

Yeah people don't realize that overall LA is more dense than NYC (or so I've read in a study). I definitely wouldn't mind living there. The building in that first pic looks like the hotel just south of d/t Cincinnati with the revolving restaurant. Can't remember the name of the hotel. Radisson I think.

Los Angeles metro is more dense than NYC's metro.  Great Los Angeles shots.

That's why I said OVERALL

Those are great photos and ironically enough, my trip to SF in October will bring us down the PCH to LA.  I've driven part of the PCH before, from LA up to..Malibu and...?  Zuma, I think...so I'm looking forward to the trip (without rushing the summer away!).

That's why I said OVERALL

 

And that's why I said METRO.

That's why I said OVERALL

That's why I said OVERALL

 

And that's why I said METRO.

 

lol

You're all @ssholes and I'm never posting here again! Cerebral narcissists! You should all be lawyers!

^ :banger:  That's great!

Wow greats photos on the Flickr account, Jason's Void.  My absolute favorite is this one:

 

If I thought I wouldn't have to spend half my life in my car, I'd live in LA in a hot minute.

Thanks for all the positive comments, everyone.  Thanks for picking out that photo, ajknee, the San Luis Reservoir is a really strange landscape.  I'll have to return there some time now that we live here.  You can really tell that the lake is artificial, it's so dry for so much of the year, and that water is carried hundreds of miles from there.

 

And I think it's possible to live in LA and not spend all day in a car, but probably pretty difficult.  We avoided driving during rush hour when we were there - it was pretty ridiculous. 

Nice work!  I'm a big Getty Center fan.  The Getty Villa in Malibu is really cool too, if you make another trip out.  You have to order tickets (free) on-line about a month in advance though.