On the 15th of march it was the 30th L.A. Marathon.
As a promotion it was illuminated by 124 skyward spotlights, the evening before the marathon.
It was incredible to see.
The high-power, vertical beams had illuminated the 26-mile route from Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica.
Here are some pictures of how it looked:
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.
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.
Here are some of the pictures, I took on the roof.
Running and climbing ladders.
Trying not to get caught, on the security camera’s.
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.
Finally I arrived in LA
The first thing I had to do, was getting my rental car at Sixt.
I was really happy, I had choosen Sixt!!
Because I saw some waiting lines at other car rental companies,
where you needed to wait longer than four hours.
So I was really really happy, that I only had to wait as long as the time to make this picture.
As result I got my Chevrolet Cruze, with (T)hug license plates.
Then I drove to my apartment and settled in.
The apartment is exactly as advertised on the internet, what a godsend !!
The living room with the kitchen, provided with all the “necessary”.
The second floor
And I even got a private rooftop terrace !!
Here are some of the views, by day.
Once settled in, I went out to get a new number and find a supermarket.
My new number is 0014242909884, but you can still Whatsapp or imessage me, on my Belgium number ;).
I found a supermarket, but i think have to search a new one, because this one had a little to much caution tape in my opinion. The supermarket was as big as a concert hall and half of it was taped like this :p.
