Crude Oil.

Crude Oil
November 13, 2010

When I went to Los Angeles, I really wanted to give it a chance. I've never really enjoyed being there, I've always been more of an East-Coast lady. But the best lady I know, miss Ashley Anderson, loves her city quite intensely. And that's good enough for me.

I was torn about what to do and where to go. We decided on the tar pits, as Ashley and Joel hadn't been there either. It really is an awesome little piece of LA. It's this place from the past that's literally bubbling up into the most progressive and futuristic of cities. Sort of a testament to the planet; you can build whatever the fuck you want but it's still gonna do whatever it wants to do.

They've got this one pit that they dug up a juvenile mastodon that they left intact so visitors could see the process and how it's still an active archeology site. Oil was still bubbling up from the ground and this photo is the reflection of a light hanging in the site. I stood there for a good 20 minutes taking pictures because I thought they looked so surreal.

It's a lot like what I said about Albuquerque and how hard it is to take pictures of; capturing a little slice of LA.

(Taken with a Nikon D-80, 18-135mm AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor Lens. Exposure 1/15, Aperture f/5.3, No Photoshop. I was using the railing as a makeshift tripod. I took probably 200 photos trying to get it right.)