Down Town LA

After we had our walk on the Walk Of Fame,
we went to the Griffith observatory.

It was unbelievable crowded.

There where cars parked on the street everywhere,
some promo tents, police giving directions, and people walking.
We thought it was all for the observatory.

Because there was a road block to observatory,
we had to park on the street.

When we finally found a parking spot on the street,
it was located really far away from the observatory.

And we didn’t feel like walking the whole distance,
so we checked out the city, from our parking spot.

After we decided to go and started driving again,
we saw we had to go the same way back as we came.

Luckily we had to,
because now we saw the roadblock was gone.

We could access the observatory by car again.

We immediately found a parking spot,
close to the observatory.

You have the possibility to look at the stars,
or check out the city.

Because there was a huge line to see the stars,
we decided to just view the city by night.

We were lucky that we had a clear view,
because some days LA has a kind of fog/smog,
hanging over the city.

This is the view we had.

After we walked around, and went to different viewpoints,
we decided to go to the store and get some food,
to have a BBQ at my place.

We did a night shoot in Down Town Los Angeles.

We did it because it was the last night for Filip Grossard in LA.
During his road trip through California he met some guys, who wanted to show us some good spots in LA to take some nice pictures.
AND INDEED, they knew where to go!!

Here’s the result:

Immediately after work we went to Down Town LA, so we could still see the sunset.

But because of the LA traffic, we couldn’t see much of the sunset anymore.
So we had to take all the pictures at “nightlight”.

Because we had to wait for the friends of Filip to arrive, we searched something to eat.
And like always, we couldn’t decide, so we used Yelp to pick our restaurant.
This was the location Yelp Advised :D.

The food wasn’t bad, but the accommodation itself was a little weird, especially the hyper active waitress.
She was jumping around when we ordered, and used A LOT of hand expressions to explain all the kinds of dishes.

After dinner, we went to the US Bank tower, because we agreed on meeting the other guys there.

Because we had to wait for several hours, we played with our camera settings, took some pictures
had some recaps about some great nights and laughed a lot.

Then the friends of Filip arrived.
Really nice guys and they advised us, to climb onto the roof of the Millennium Biltmore hotel.
Because it was a nice old hotel, it was still possible to use the fire stairs to get onto the roof of the hotel.

The hallway in the millennium biltmore hotel

Reception of the millennium biltmore hotel

Once arrived on the roof, the views were breathtaking!!!
You where still between some other skyscrapers but high in the sky :).

To give you an impression, where we took pictures, I added a photo from Google Earth.

Roof Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles

Here are some of the pictures, I took on the roof.

Lying down on the rooftop to take pictures

Running and climbing ladders.
Trying not to get caught, on the security camera’s.

On the roof of the millennium biltmore hotel

If we just went to that bar to take some pictures, it would saved us from some crazy stunts.
But still, this was more exiting because it had the feeling of an adventure.
Getting in the hotel, getting to the top floor, take fire stairs, climbs ladders, not get caught on the security camera’s and so on.

After everybody, was satisfied with the pictures they made, we went to a bridge located over the highway.

After those pictures, we called it a night and drove back to Marina Del Rey.

Griffith Observatory

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