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Saturday, I took a quick trip up to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

I originally left my camera in my trunk. I didn’t want to deal with carrying it around since I was pretty sure they wouldn’t be cool about taking photos of the exhibits, and the museum itself isn’t nearly as interesting as the Getty or even LACMA, so I didn’t think there’d be much to shoot.

I went back for it though because I kept seeing images I wanted. I’m glad I did too because I got some shots that I think are interesting. Don’t get me wrong. I know there’re lots of problems here. I’m not paying attention to light or contrast the way I should. The colors are really washed out — I oversaturated a few in Photoshop to try to make up for it. Normally I don’t bother with that, but like I said, while not great they did seem interesting (to me at least at 1 in the morning), so I wanted to save them.

I was trying to shoot in keeping with the theme of modern art, so there are a lot of grid structures and reflected symmetry. A few where the camera got shaky with a long exposure is probably closer to impressionism, but I liked them, so I included them anyway.