A few weeks ago I took these photos of the sunset and moon over the Port of Los Angeles / Long Beach. I took it from a really cool hidden park in San Pedro. Guess where the park is and you win!
A couple more shots after the jump, and even more on flickr or eecue.com.
hey, thats by my house !!!
i wont give up your secret spot.
peeedro is nice, huh?
IknowIknowIknow!
:-)
I’ve been to that park.
It’s here.
yeah I like the peed… I saw a really funny shirt, but it was kind of offensive:
“San Pedro,
Where the Ghetto Meets the Sea”
SP is actually not that ghetto, but still a funny shirt.
Not a secret to SP dwellers and dog owners!
Yeah it’s not really a secret, it’s just not well known to people living outside of SP. I actually found it randomly looking for a good place to get a photo of the port a few years ago.
Btw LA Map nerd, that link doesn’t work for me… try google maps instead! M$ sucks!
That’s a park? A bunch of bare dirt ground with a big red “No Trespassing” sign. Wow. Glad I don’t live there.
nope, that’s not the park, the park is directly behind and to my right in these flicks.
Nice work. The where is eecue could be a fun series. Don’t you have a show of all your HDR work coming up soon?
The show has been delayed until January… but yes I do have a show coming up soon. And more of this series is to come.
There’s a great dog park there. About to be demolished to make way for a local baseball league.
There’s a great dog park there. About to be demolished to make way for a local baseball league.
The hill is called Knoll Hill. It’s a weird little lump between two streets and some train tracks. A few years ago the Port tried to bulldoze the hill and extend container yards further into the community, but the community pushed back and saved the hill.
Good job Marshall, you win. Unfortunately there is no prize. But good job and thanks for the background.
I was really surprised no one mentioned the name of the hill – It may still be written on the side in white rock. I can’t remember if that’s still visible.
This Where Is game is already being played, daily, at
http://www.flickr.com/groups/guesswherela/pool/
Sorry to hear it didn’t work. :-(
I mostly used Live Search because the Birds’-Eye View let me match the angle on your shot of the end of the cul-de-sac, and you could even see the sign, so it was way recognizable. Can’t do that with Google Maps.
Ah, well.
(And I almost added a GoogleMaps link, too, but I was late for an appointment. Sorry.)
Here’s the Google Map link.
(And by the way, I found it the same way you did! Looking for photo angles on the port, saw a hill, saw a one-way street labeled “Knoll Dr.” coming down off the hill, and went looking for the other end.)
i found it because i had no place to puff a j.
Yeah sorry I didn’t mention the flickr group. I used to post in it all the time and follow the RSS feed, but I’m just too busy to keep an eye on it now.