{"id":631,"date":"2010-08-07T19:24:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T23:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2010-08-07T19:24:34","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T23:24:34","slug":"chinatown-downtown-los-angeles-street-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/07\/chinatown-downtown-los-angeles-street-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinatown, Downtown Los Angeles Street Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a weekend or two ago, on a lazy Saturday morning, I decided that I was going to take photos that day–although not sure where or how I was going to get there. I therefore planned that I was going to check out the LA MOCA, and then took my stuff and jumped on the first bus that I could find.<\/p>\n

However while I was on the bus, I saw something interesting on the side of the street, and got off my bus way too early. After taking my photograph of what I wanted to, I realized that I was lost in the middle of nowhere. However I just walked around the streets, meandering where I wanted to go next.<\/p>\n

I then jumped on another bus and got off on the metro stop in the middle of Korea-town. I never took the subway in Los Angeles before, and I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to do so. Therefore I jumped on the subway, still not quite sure where I wanted to go. I looked at the map, and Chinatown was on the list. I had heard lots of interesting things about Chinatown in Los Angeles, yet never had the opportunity to go. I then thought to myself, “Why the hell not” and headed toward there.<\/p>\n

I had never been to Chinatown before, so I kind of followed where the streets lead me. However I was quite pleased to say, it was a great opportunity for street photography. The Chinatown area was very quaint and quiet–with a few people strolling in and out of the area. If you look at the below images, you will also see they have an interesting “film” look to them. I recently made a new preset based on one that I downloaded online, and I quite like the look. I feel it gives that “dreamy” look that I felt when I was experiencing the place.<\/p>\n

Hope you enjoy this little mini-photo essay of Chinatown in Downtown Los Angeles, through my eyes.
\n\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Chinatown,<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a weekend or two ago, on a lazy Saturday morning, I decided that I was going to take photos that day–although not sure where or how I was going to get there. I \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[182,186,183,188,195,190,184,185,166,196,194,187,189,193,90,191,21,197,192],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-posts","tag-chinatown","tag-chinatown-area","tag-chinatown-in-los-angeles","tag-first-bus","tag-images","tag-interesting-things","tag-korea-town","tag-la-moca","tag-los-angeles-street-photography","tag-map","tag-metro","tag-mini-photo","tag-photo-essay","tag-photograph","tag-photos","tag-saturday-morning","tag-street-photography","tag-street-photography-gallery","tag-subway"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0349-1.jpg?fit=640%2C418&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}