Los Angeles | Matt He Wanders On

While sorting through my image collection, I came across some more old film scans I hadn’t previously published.

I love this view…

This is a fun set of images from a little adventure that Kayla and I decided to embark upon because we had nothing else to do.

What are you looking at?

“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
-Helen Keller

Thanksgiving 2011, we are orphans in Los Angeles. Family is 2,000 miles away on this day meant to be spent with them. As an alternative to feeling bad for ourselves, we decide to treat ourselves to some fun activities.

We begin the day by heading to Hermosa Beach to visit one of our favorite places to get breakfast and watch football. Sharkeez… Some delicious food, football indulgence, and too many mimosas (for me, not Kayla) later, we decide its time to move on.

Somehow we decide to wander around downtown LA because we know it will be a ghost town on a Thanksgiving holiday. Rather than take the freeway there, we decide to drive along Crenshaw as an alternate route. After the drive up, we walk around downtown admiring some of the architecture and parks.

The architecture images from that day will be posted soon on my other blog: Matthew Anderson Photography.

On our way out of the city, we analyze a few options for places to get a nice turkey dinner, but ended up deciding to forgo tradition and head home and eat PIZZA instead! Some might call this sad, we call this awesome.

While not a typical Thanksgiving day, I think we managed to make a fun little adventure out of it. Perhaps we’ll start our own tradition!

I love street photography, and could spend hours on end looking at the work of the Masters. It’s something I need to work on and do more of. Do you have a favorite image from this set?