When I was digging through 2007 to find those Eric Judy pix, I came across a bunch of old night shots of the Hollywood Bowl where I was trying to find a decent exposure. And with fisheye to boot! Flash forward to 2011 and I know a little bit about tone-mapping, so I just grabbed a few different exposures and put them together.

(Listen while lookin’: Colour – “Over the Moon” from their posthumous release Anthology)

A few weeks ago I went out with some friends walking around Downtown L.A. on a Thursday night. I brought the Canonet with a flash on an off-camera cord. I flashed random people on the street I thought looked interesting. I got a lot of photos , but the more I look at them, the more I lose perspective. I’ve already posted my favorites, but are any of these rejected nighttime street photos worth also posting to my Flickr stream? Hmm. I had high hopes for the wrestler, too. You see some strange things walking around in L.A.

On April 5, there is a FUNdraising event for TransitPeople –  “an all-volunteer Los Angeles non-profit that conducts educational, one day trips for school groups using the public transit system.”

What is it?

“Five competing teams of grown-ups will use public transit trains and buses to race (well, race kind of; how can you race while holding a strap in a bus?) from meeting points in Hollywood, Pasadena, Echo Park, Glendale and the Wilshire district to an ultra hush-hush, super top secret, only-revealed-at-the-start-of-the-race destination.”

Why is this mentioned in RedFishingBoat? Because your humble host, me, will be following one of the competing teams, documenting their every move along the way. One of the organizers is Tim, and he did an awfully kind write-up about me and some other volunteer photogs. Check it out: TransitPeople News.

Play this song now: “Get On The Bus (feat. Abstract Rude)” – Busdriver

LAist: Add This to One of Our Favorite Photos of LA.

Just noticed that LAist.com liked my photo of Los Angeles. That’s so great. I’ve always liked those peeps.

View it large and on black, too.

I took this photo a couple weeks ago when I walked up to Griffith Observatory. I developed the film and scanned it this past weekend. Such a great feeling!

Play this: “People Get Ready” – The Frames

Music to read this post by: “Who Did You Think I Was (Live At The Nokia Theatre)” – John Mayer Trio

There’s a lot of hand-wringing in Los Angeles these days around the aggressive tactics that photographers use to get very valuable images of famous people

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Officials from around Los Angeles, joined by celebrities such as singer John Mayer, met on Thursday to discuss how to fix what some see as a growing problem of paparazzi dangerously hounding Hollywood stars.

L.A. officials at odds over reining in paparazzi

And, Mayer posted his statement on one of his blogs:

I don’t sit before you today to ask that you ban the paparazzi. I’m asking you to regulate it.

John Mayer’s “Testimonial”.

It is true that Mayer is well-known to be a photography enthusiast. He’s a better photographer than I am, damn him.

But, I think it’s a little silly when folks call for increased laws against (or to regulate) paparazzi, their main arguments focus around how the paps break existing laws. Why not focus on enforcing existing laws? Eight cars running a red light? Guess what? You don’t need a new law to stop that. Licensing paps? They already have a driver’s license they’re not adhering to. Trespassing? It’s already a crime. If those existing laws are not enforced, then address your energy towards changing the culture of law enforcement that allows such selective enforcement of existing law, rather than make additional laws and bureaucracy that will be at once guaranteed to be poorly worded such that non-paparazzi photographers somehow will be additionally persecuted, and mostly ignored by the unscrupulous photogs that break laws now.

Also, here’s John Mayer leaving Samy’s Camera on Fairfax. No confrontation here. I just think it’s neat he was at one of the camera shops I go to.

I just checked out the crowd at theSanta Monica Apple Store for the launch of some new geegaw or other. I do want an iPhone three-gizzle, but I’m not gonna queue up for one. Sheesh! Reports from the crowd were that the line started getting going at around 3 A.M. It’s good to be passionate about something!

The intersection of Sunset and Cahuenga Boulevards will be named “Larry King Square” in ceremonies taking place Thursday.

LA SQUARE HONORS LARRY KING – New York Post

I have nothing funny to add here. I just want to spread the news. Celebrate!

Who robs banks? Seriously? I had no idea that robbing banks was so common, and thus so easy, these days. Hmmm. Check out my new favorite site on the Interwebs:

This website is devoted to the identification and apprehension of bank robbers (a.k.a. bank bandits) in the Southern California territory, which specifically covers the following seven counties: 1) Los Angeles 2) Orange 3) Riverside 4) San Bernardino 5) San Luis Obispo 6) Santa Barbara and 7) Ventura. The region we cover is typically referred to as the “Bank Robbery Capital of the World” – a title we would love to lose.

LA Bank Robbers

This guy on Flickr is all about representin’ my hood Valley Village. He’s FOR REALZ!!

Having just waited 78 minutes this week for a bus that rolls every 30 minutes — the target bus and the one after it were driving together! — I can only hope these supa-vizors are really crack aces:

Metro to hire 10 more supervisors in response to L.A.’s poor on-time bus rating – Los Angeles Times