Just wanted to tell you all about last weekend when we went to the Getty Center …

I love living in LA and having so many cultural options all the time. If I could afford it, I’d go to the Getty every week. Yes, I know that admission is free, but parking was raised to $10 and that adds up. This was my 3rd trip in 10 months … but Andrew and I are going to try to go more often … I already went to their website and wrote down the dates of future exhibits/etc to look forward to.

Last Sunday, we took my friend Angela and her fiancee Devo (whose wedding I will be shooting in Italy!) … they had never been to the Getty and I think they really enjoyed it. …

But first, we went to lunch at Andrew’s favorite hole-in-the-wall Mexican restaurant – Mi Casa.

Then to the Getty around 1p … we only had a few hours there before the museum closed …

Ang and Devo took a look around while Andrew and I went to the lecture I was so excited about.

Carleton Watkins and the Element of Time
By Weston Naef

As far as I remember, Mr. Naef (on the left in the image below) is the curator of the photography dept of the Getty. Until later this week when he is retiring. Sunday was his last lecture for the Getty. That may be why the auditorium was soo so full. Probably a lot of donors there. They were all older than me and Andrew for sure …

Anyway – the lecture:
Between getting there, lecture-proper and q&a session it was about 2 hours. 2 hours of academia which I SO miss. 2 hours of someone talking to me about the thought, themes, intent, composition, etc of landscape images (which I admittedly didn’t really ‘get’ until now). May sound boring to all of you but I LOVED it. I immediately went home to check out dates for future Getty lectures (free!)…

I learned a lot .. .got a ton of ideas … took notes. It was a really great experience … I can’t stress enough how valuable that $10 we spent on parking was.

After we left, we went to one of my favorite places … Menchie’s!

Great Sunday …