Posts in Los Angeles Rivers
Frogtown Artwalk panel - LA River
Frogtown Artwalk panel - LA River

Join me on Saturday, October 17 at 4 pm, along with fellow artists Margaret Gallagher and T. Chick McClure, for a panel discussion on the LA River as part of the Frogtown Artwalk. It will be hosted by writer and LA Times columnist Patt Morrison.

RSVP here - https://www.evartscollective.com/event-details/la-river-x-panel-discussion-look-at-the-la-river-what-do-you-see

Hope to see you there.

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Ballona Plastic

I often ride my bike along Ballona Creek which has a wonderful bike path that takes you down to the beach at Playa Del Rey. If I am lucky I will see a Great Blue Heron or an Egret along its banks. At certain spots, you can watch Brown Pelicans trying their luck as they dive for fish at places where the salt water from the sea finds its way a bit inland. There are many things about Ballona that remind you it is still a creek even though its natural shores have been replaced by concrete ones.

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Coastal, Los Angeles Rivers, Plastic, Recycling and Trash, WaterPeter BennettBallona Wetlands, Ballona Creek, trash, Plastic, styrofoam, flood channel, Playa Del Rey, Playa Vista, silicon beach, plastic bags, Watershed, WaterwaysComment
A Good Start - from LA River Pix
A Good Start - from LA River Pix

A few weeks ago I was up in the Central Valley shooting some drought stories and from all the parched earth and empty fields I saw it seemed like we might never have rain again. This current storm here in LA is a very welcome relief, but long term we need a helluva lot more and most importantly we need it in the mountains of the north and the Sierra to seriously replenish the reservoirs and water system that provides for California agriculture and cities. But I’m not complaining! Yet!

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Los Angeles River, Los Angeles Rivers, WaterPeter Bennettecosystem, environment, environmental, Los Angeles, los angeles river, Plastic, pollution, rain, rainwater, rainwater capture, Urban Runoff, Water, Water Pollution, Watershed, WaterwaysComment
A Day at the Races - from LA River Pix
A Day at the Races - from LA River Pix

I have witnessed and participated in many events along the LA River, but covering and photographing the 1st Annual LA River Boat Race this last Saturday was pretty special. It was historic, it was also loads of fun – the broad grins and/or determined looks on the competitor’s faces as they splashed and shot through the small whitewater rapids would attest to that.

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A Day of Mayors - from LA River Pix
A Day of Mayors - from LA River Pix

Photographing political events and photos ops are pretty strange. It is always a challenge to try to distinguish the “op” from the real, and more often than not there ain’t much real. Last Saturday I found myself down at Marsh Park along the Elysian Valley surrounded by a large fuzzy Lion, a cadre of cheerleaders, a bunch of political handlers all buzzing about along with various groups of helpful citizens there for a river clean-up.

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Los Angeles River, Los Angeles Rivers, WaterPeter Bennettanaheim, elysian valley, environment, environmental, eric garcetti, Glendale Narrows, hockey, la kings, Los Angeles, los angeles kings, los angeles river, mayor garcetti, Peter Bennett, river clean-up, tom tait, Urban Runoff, Water, Watershed, WaterwaysComment
Sunday on the River with a Kayak - from LA River Pix

I’ve been wanting to go kayaking down the LA River since about 2008. That was the year I stood on the shore of the river along the Sepulveda Basin and watched as kayaker George Wolfe emerged from upstream and the dense foliage and shore his craft just in front of me.

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Los Angeles River, Los Angeles Rivers, WaterPeter Bennettenvironment, environmental, Los Angeles, los angeles river, Peter Bennett, Urban Runoff, Water, Water Pollution, Watershed, WaterwaysComment
Two Faces of the LA River - from LA River Pix

If you have spent any time exploring even a bit of the LA River, you have no doubt seen its many different landscapes and incarnations, I have found and stumbled upon many of these in my journeys to photograph it. Last week I was shooting for a client who needed some printed photos of the Sepulveda Basin to display in a nearby housing development. Most of the river throughout the Basin is pretty calm and flat-watered as it runs a fairly straight course to the Dam at the southeastern end of the Recreation area.

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Los Angeles River, Los Angeles Rivers, Plastic, WaterPeter Bennettenvironment, environmental, Los Angeles, los angeles river, Peter Bennett, Plastic, pollution, Urban Runoff, Water, Water Pollution, Watershed, WaterwaysComment
Zanja Madre unearthed - from LA River Pix

I am a history geek and anytime I can shoot something that opens up a little window of the past for me is an exciting opportunity. Loving to shoot the LA River as I do, as well as water issues in general in and around the Los Angeles area, when I read about the discovery that a 100 foot section of the Zanja Madre had been discovered at a construction site in Chinatown,

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Where it all begins - from LA River Pix

I have been photographing the LA River for about 6 years now and never in that time have I gone to see where it begins. That would be in Canoga Park where two channelized streams converge, Bell Creek from Simi Hills in the West and Arroyo Calabasas from the Santa Monica Mountains in the South. Their meeting forms a short flatiron shape with Canoga Park High School sitting atop it and laying back to the West.

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