I’ve never considered myself much of an artist. Can’t draw. Can’t paint. Can’t dance or sing. But since moving to Boyle Heights 5 1/2 years ago, I’ve had a artistic dream swimming around in my head to do a photo project looking in at downtown LA from 360 degrees around the city.After several years of no movement on this project, I took a class a year ago to learn more about the technical side of photography. Great class - learned a lot of the basics. Then no movement again. Yesterday, on my day off, I decided to get off my duff and try things out.

Since my “360 degrees on Downtown” is the main project, I’m not showing those photos. But I liked how these photos I also took came out. This is off of Main Street at the edge of Lincoln Heights heading into Chinatown and the downtown area, just by the LA “river,” looking northwest at the bridge at Broadway and towards the San Fernando Valley.