PATTERNS AND TONES

The Los Angeles music scene cannot be discussed without mentioning the neo-psychedelic movement that has evolved  over the last decade  on the east side of the city. Bands such as   Darker My Love ,  Sleepy Sun,  Robedoor ,  Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel, Mystic Braves, Joel Jerome,  Pocahaunted , The Entrance Band,  and most notably   The Warlocks , the Psych scene has flourished into a full fledge happening. Back in 2001, I was contacted by Bomp! Records to photograph The Warlocks for their  upcoming album "Rise and Fall" which came out later that year. It was a memorable day creating pretty shapes with seven people, especially in the midst of an earthquake!  I am happy to present to you out takes from that shoot along with photographs I crafted from their gig  at the Bootleg Theater in Silverlake  earlier this month. I caught up with the incredibly kindhearted and extremely...

"Sun Shadow Carrousel No. 1" Continuing my exploration of Sun Shadows , I turned my attention to the fabulous shapes horses and other animals made on the floor of a carrousel. Undulating subjects and the constant movement of the light made it a fun challenge to capture these elusive shadows. I rarely look down on the floor of a carrousel. The intricately carved woodwork of the horses usually steels my attention and the mirrored walls and spinning motion distract my senses. But the light that day was at just the right angle. These shadows captured my eye as they road quickly by and provided this photographer with a lovely visual puzzle to unlock. Have a Merry-Go-Round! Julie Green February 21, 2015 "Sun Shadow Carrousel No. 2" "Sun Shadow Carrousel No. 3"  "Sun Shadow Carrousel No. 4"  "Sun Shadow Carrousel No. 5"  "Sun Shadow Carrousel No. 6" 

Wilshire Blvd. I decided to brave another round of rush hour traffic across town, this time down the Miracle and Park Mile, through the Robert F. Kennedy Parkway, through Koreatown and Mid-Wilshire, cutting straight through MacArthur Park and ending up in downtown LA on the street otherwise known as Wilshire Boulevard. This main artery that stretches across seven cities, from downtown Los Angeles to the beach in Santa Monica, has been a boulevard in flux since its inception in Victorian times. Wilshire is a facinating collection of old and new Los Angeles. Major development and construction made the drive very bumpy indeed, even when crawling its broad streets in a traffic jam. Metal covers overlaped open street construction and upgrades to the median were underway. This boulevard is getting a face lift! Wilshire reminds me that Los Angeles really is a metropolis. You can forget that while you meander from city to city.  It reminds me of the streets of Manhattan, w...

February 9, 2013 Patterns and Tones was born Wowwie, two years already! How can it be? The little photo blog that could has been chugging its way into the world weekly now for two whole years. Sharing my vision with you has been an honor and a thrill. I have so many ideas and images in my arsenal, and I derive so much joy in presenting them to you and the world, that I can only see this developing into a life long adventure! I have been asked many times where the name of the blog came from. Patterns represent my Fine Art creations and Tones covers my love of photographing Rock n' Rollers. But the name actually originated from my a talent show my mother used to perform in as a member of her Glee Club when she attended Oakland Technical High School  from 1951-1955. The talent show was called Patterns in Tone.   I remember as a child going through her old scrapbooks and seeing the red cover of a Patterns in Tone program from 1954. The maracas, guitar, sax, trumpet and co...