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Quinceañera

 

From Saturday, a rouge Quinceañera party out and around Downtown posing for photos.

Photography: The Pro and the Con

THE PRO: Photographer Martin Schall enjoyed a tour of non-downtown locations courtesy of LAO's Kevin Roderick. It opened a whole new world to, Martin, the honorary Angeleno:

"First we drove up Sawtelle Avenue — he didn't know the Japanese district, or know of Sawtelle's past as a city of saloons and gambling halls. Good start. It got better when we took him into the VA reservation astride Wilshire Boulevard. Martin jumped out to take pictures of the National Register of Historic Places chapel, the oldest surviving building on Wilshire and occupied by separate Catholic and Protestant chapels, but sadly looking more decrepit than ever. He was delighted to grab shots of other VA buildings, since he hadn't known it was OK to just drive in and explore the federal grounds.

THE CON: Not so fortunate was Discarted, a blogger / photographer cuffed by Los Angeles County Sheriffs.

On October 31, 2009 while on my way home from the Hollywood and Highland area, I was unlawfully detained for 25 minutes by LASD Officers Richard Gylfie #2955 and Bayes #456 for taking two photographs of the turnstiles located at the Hollywood and Western Metro Station — an act that is completely legal and occurred in public space.

His video is bound to be viral, yes, he had a camera rolling. More POV by David Markland.