Lightning

I spent the early hours of the morning awestruck by lighting and thunder.

I aimed my iPhone up at the sky to see if I could capture anything and ended up with a few video clips of the dark dawn sky that burst into light about every thirty seconds with a brilliant rod of lightning, followed a few seconds after with a cracking boom of thunder, all while the song “Familiar” by Agnes Obel played in the background; this still is from one of my videos.

Lightning is beautiful; it’s simply breathtaking the power that’s stored in the clouds.

Epic LA

My dad was in LA Sunday morning and took these awesome shots with his new iPhone 7. The quality of the photos is pretty amazing— it definitely rivals what some traditional cameras are capable of. The original files are much larger, naturally.  😉

For those of you not familiar with LA, the first image shows City Hall (once the tallest building in the city), the next is the Walt Disney Concert Hall (designed by Frank Gehry), and the third shows the remnants of the Sixth Street Bridge (also known as the Sixth Street Viaduct) that has been quite popular in pop culture. Thankfully this isn’t the end of the bridge; it will be rebuilt in a pretty cool way and should be opened again in 2019. Let the countdown begin!

Thanks dad for letting me share these.  🙂

Granted these shots are pretty awesome as they are, but I like black and white photos a lot too so I edited them and came up with the versions below. The first shot looks to me like something that could be from a film adaptation of Ayn Rand‘s Anthem or some other dystopian tale (maybe something like 1984?). The one of the Disney Hall reminds me of a series of black and white photos by Ansel Adams that we had in the student center at my university. The third shot though— with the tangled steel in the foreground, the broken bridge supports and digger in the middle, and the clouds streaking the sky in the distance— looks almost apocalyptic, almost like something out of Terminator.