Trip to LA: Santa Monica and Griffith Observatory

If you didn't check out the first blog post from my trip to LA, make sure to check it out here! 

For the last day in Los Angeles, we all headed over to Santa Monica for the day to check out the famous Santa Monica Pier and walk over to Venice Beach to see the famous "Muscle Beach." We ended up walking around for the afternoon and stuck around until sunset. 

I made sure to bring a tripod so I could grab some nice sunset photos!

We were super fortunate to have a wonderful sunset for the night!! The colors were some of the best that I have ever seen and was a great way to end the stay in LA.

We ended the night by heading over the Griffith Observatory, which has some wonderful views of downtown LA and the surrounding cities. I think my favorite place about this site was the architecture and that it provided a great foreground for the cityscape.

It was a wonderful trip and Eric and his family were excellent hosts!! I think I'm already missing the warm weather here in the PNW.

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Hollywood Sign Hike and UCLA

This past week was my spring break and for part of it, me and my friend Jake planned to spend some time in LA with our friend Eric. We started our first day in LA with a hike up to the Hollywood sign.

We started by hiking up behind the sign. It was a little cloudy, which limited visibility, but it was a gorgeous day and was perfect weather for a hike!

Once at the top, there were some great views of downtown LA, Hollywood and Beverly Hills. The signage was hard to see due to lots of security gates, which we weren't daring enough to trespass against.

The sites from the front of the sign were wayyyy better! It was cool to see the Hollywood sign up close.

After the sign, we headed over to UCLA to take a quick tour of the campus and walk around. 

The campus was beautiful, but it was weird not to see many people there since everyone was on spring break. 

We headed over to see Pauley Pavilion and the tennis complex before making a stop at Drake Track and Field Stadium. When we saw it was completely open, we took a lap and of course had to make use of the long jump pit.

Make sure to keep an eye out for my next blog post about my LA trip coming up!!

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Sean Brown is a photographer based out of Vancouver, WA and Portland, OR who specializes in high school senior portraits. If you're interested in booking a session or would like more information, please use the contact link on his website. Sean is now booking sessions for the Class of 2016.


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Everybody Every Body Fashion Show

As part of an annual tradition, ASUW, the associated student governing body of the University of Washington, hosted the Everybody Every Body Fashion Show. The goal of this is to promote acceptance in everyone's appearance and place less emphasis on physical looks and characteristics and more about the person inside. This is one of the biggest events on campus every year and I just had to go! Going also means bringing my camera. And this time it meant getting to use my new Canon 6D, which just came in!

What was really cool was that the background was made up of different covers from various fashion magazines. The pink and purple lights on these transformed the ballroom from ballroom to fashion scene. 

The show took place in a ballroom, which was transformed into a catwalk suited for supermodels. This is all part of the environment that they try to create and making everyone feel like supermodels. The show incorporates over 150 students, 15 clothing retailers and 2 fashion designers. The Everybody Every Body Fashion Show really puts all the elements of a real fashion show together and makes it available to all students.

One of the parts that I love is how they exhibit so many different styles of fashion that truly accentuate who each person is. 

During the show, there were breaks where other UW groups performed. A couple of them consisted of a hip-hop group and the a cappella group on campus.

The event consisted of groups of individuals that came out, so it wasn't just everyone at once on the catwalk. One of my favorite groups was the guys in the suits. 

I loved how unique everyone's fashion sense was and some of the outfits truly had some great flare and color pop!

While it was great to test my camera out, it was even more incredible seeing that everyone had such a wonderful time and how this was such a positive experience for everyone involved.

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