trio apartments

i'll take a break from the bike trip and get back to some pasadena photos for a little while - like this great perspective on the trio apartments and roy's hawaiian restaurant.

what's playing at the laemmle?

i always think the movies at the laemmle theater in pasadena look way more interesting than "normal" hollywood blockbusters. and yet more times than not, i find myself heading down the block for the much cheaper option.

zinke's drive in

a little flashback to my pasadena neon series today. i'm not the first pasadena blogger to snap a photo of this sign - petrea captured it in all of its beauty over a year ago. check her work out at pasadena daily photo, right here.

also, you can see the often photographed trio apartments in the background.

colorado street topography

avid followers of this blog may recognize this subject matter from an earlier posting.

photo request #13: glass elevator from c&tcf

my friend clare scott requested a photo of the top of a building at the corner of madison and colorado that she claimed looked like the glass elevator from charlie and the chocolate factory. i was skeptical until the other day, when i found it! you've seen the trio apartment building before on this blog, but the building right next to is it what clare was thinking of. doesn't that look exactly like your visions of the great glass elevator?


back to how i found it... i was shopping at trader joe's the other day and spotted clare's elevator from the top of the parking garage. as you can see from this photo, even though it was way across town knew exactly what she meant. my zoom didn't capture it well enough, so i took off and headed toward the building. i quickly realized that you can't see it when you get really close, and it is hard to get a good shot from far away. i ended up using the above photo to capture the building and a bit of its surroundings.

and for those with a sharp eye, in the parking garage shot, you can see the bell tower that has also been featured on this blog.

from the comments - docker over at mixed meters has some more great pictures of this very building.

working with contrast

this massive palm tree is in the trio apartment complex. i really like how the black and white makes it jump off the image.

trio apartments

thanks to pasadena daily photo, i've been wanting to snag a picture of this building when the "three graces" were all lit up. although it gets even brighter when the sky is black, you can start to see the illumination taking place.